NCERT Solutions Class 12th English

NCERT Solutions 12th English Chapter 3 The Enemy

Ques 1. Who was Dr Sadao?where was his house?
Ans:Dr. Sadao was a renowned Japanese surgeon and scientist. He was a gentleman who remained faithful to his career even in difficult circumstances. He lived in his ancestral square stone house in Japan which was built upon rocks, above a narrow beach, on the Japanese coast.
Ques 2.It is the time of the World War. An American prisoner of war is washed ashore in a dying state and is found at the doorstep of a Japanese doctor. Should he save him as a doctor or hand him over to the army as a patriot?
Ans:Within this materialistic universe, dominated by hate and disorder, morality and love are the only saving grace. Our lives should be focused on harboring these sentiments within ourselves and those around us.
Keeping that in mind, if a doctor gets a chance to save a person who is distressed and injured, he should definitely help him. People think of doctors next to God. Only their profession requires them, irrespective of caste, sex, faith or nationality, to support all patients. Therefore the prisoner of war will certainly be rescued, holding humanity superior to all else in existence.
Ques 3.Will Dr. Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
Ans:For humanitarian interests as well as finding it his ethical obligation, Dr Sadao tended a wounded prisoner of war that was technically a serious crime. He was never revealed to anyone but his wife, faithful yet cautious staff, and a general who was so self-obsessed with his own treatment that he would never let the doctor leave him.
Ques 4.Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?
Ans:The injured American was in very poor shape and had to be cleaned before being operated on. Hana did not want Dr. Sadao to clean up the filthy and unconscious prisoner, so Yumi asked her servant to do so. Yumi, however, followed the order of her master and opted out of the order. As a consequence, Hana had no choice but to wash him herself. While this act was impulsive and dipped over her servant, Yumi, in a sense of dominance, she did so with honesty. Ques 5.What will Dr. Sadao and his wife do with the man?
Ans:Dr. Sadao and Hana found an unconscious, wounded prisoner of war who posed a great threat to their own survival. Dr Sadao, however, agreed to go with his intestinal feeling and operate on him. He has saved his life even though it has been for now. While half heartily both took good care of the health and other needs of the patient. Only Hana cleaned, fed him with her own mouth. Though they knew that sooner or later they would have to hand him over to the army, they did their best to help the injured person.
Ques 6.Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
Ans:For both humanitarian and medical purposes, Dr Sadao treated a wounded prisoner of war who was technically a serious criminal. He was never revealed to anyone but his wife, faithful yet timid staff, and a general who was so self-obsessed with his own treatment that he would never let the doctor leave him.
Ques 7.What will Dr Sadao do to get rid of the man?
Ans:With the wounded American's health improving slowly, Dr. Sadao and Hana were in a bind as to what could be done with him. Their loyal servants had left them and could pose a threat to their lives if they kept him in their home. As the impatience and frustration of Hana rose, Dr. Sadao revealed the matter to the General who decided to send assassins in his sleep to kill the young American. Dr Sadao decided on getting rid of the escaped prisoner of war. The matter could not be resolved, however, because the assassins had never arrived.
So Dr. Sadao plotted another way to get rid of him, overcome with remorse, and a distant appreciation to the people he had been associated with America. Another time, he decided to save his patient. He secretly sent him to an isolated island with food, bottled water, clothing, blanket and his own flashlight on a boat from where he sailed for freedom and protection on a Korean ship.
Ques 8.There are moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.
Ans:There are many dimensions of life. We live it by maintaining a delicate balance between the different facets it offers to us as part of our individual existence in society. There are just a few of them living for our own self, family, profession, and country. At times, however, keeping this balance is complicated, and is overshadowed by uncertainty and dilemmas.
This is exemplified in the story about Dr. Sadao, Hana and the prisoner of war. Dr. Sadao and Hana can't decide what to do when they discover a wounded war prisoner washed ashore. They are confused as to whether they should save and tend the injured, or whether they should let him die or inform the army.
Dr. Sadao finally strikes a balance by attempting to rescue him before handing him over to the military. He and his wife sympathetically tend to him but subjugate their forgiving selves by the burden of illegally keeping a prisoner of war in their home and going against the rule of law. In a bid to get rid of this burden, Dr. Sadao reveals it to the General who promises by assassins to get the prisoner killed. Yet the human side of Dr Sadao shows up again asking him to ply with his soul's voice, and he goes out of his way to help the enemy soldier escape to safety.

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