Class 12 English Vistas Chapter 4 – The Enemy (Pearl S Buck) Short question answers

 

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Vistas

Chapter 4 – The Enemy

(Pearl S Buck)

Short question answers

Q1. Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?

Ans. Dr. Sadao Hoki was a prominent Japanese surgeon and scientist. He had spent eight years of his youth in America, learning everything he could about surgery and medicine. He was honing a finding that would completely clean wounds.

Dr. Sadao's residence was built on rocks high above a tiny beach fringed with bent pines. It was on a stretch of Japanese coastline.

Q2. Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?

Ans. Dr Sadao was aware that if they housed a white guy in their home, they might face arrest. The wounded man was a POW who had escaped with a bullet in his back. Because Japan was at war with America, harboring an enemy constituted treason to Japan. Dr. Sadao may be jailed if someone filed a complaint against him or accused him of harboring an enemy.

Q3. What will Dr Sadao and his wife do with the man?
Ans. Dr. Sadao and his wife, Hana, had told the servants that they merely intended to bring the man to his senses so they could hand him over as a prisoner. They recognized that putting him back in the sea was the best course of action given the circumstances. However, Dr Sadao was opposed to giving over a wounded man to the police. He offered to bring him into his home. He operated on him and removed the bullet from his body. He held the white man inside his house. He and his wife cared for him and nourished him till he was healthy enough to walk on his own.

Q4.What do you learn about Sadao’s father from the story ‘The Enemy’?
Ans. Sadao's father was a visionary. He understood that the islands off Japan's coast were stepping stones to the future. Nobody could limit their future because it was dependent on how they made it. His primary focus was for his son's schooling. He sent his twenty-two-year-old son to America to learn everything he could about surgery and medicine. He adored the Japanese race, customs, and manners.

Q5. Why was Dr Sadao being kept in Japan and not sent abroad with the troops?
Ans. Sadao was a prominent surgeon and scientist. He was honing a finding that would completely clean wounds. Second, the elderly General was receiving medical treatment for an ailment that may necessitate surgery. Sadao was retained in Japan rather than being transferred abroad with the troops for these two reasons.

Q6. Who was Sadao’s wife? Where had he met her? Why did he wait to fall in love with her?
Ans. Hana was Sadao's wife. He met her by happenstance at the home of an American professor. Professor Harley and his wife had been kind individuals. They hosted a party at home for their few foreign pupils. Hana was a new student. He waited to fall in love with her till he knew she was Japanese. It was because his father would never have accepted her unless she was pure in race.

Q7. When and where did Sadao marry Hana? How was their married life?
Ans. Sadao and Hana married when they returned to Japan after graduating medical school. Sadao's father spotted her. The marriage was then arranged in the traditional Japanese style. They'd been married long enough to have two children. Their marital life was quite joyful. They still loved each other.

Q8. In which state did Sadao and Hana find the man? What did they learn about him?
Ans The man lay unmoving, his face on the sand. As they turned the man's head, they noticed that he was white and had long golden hair. His face was young, with a harsh yellow beard. He was unconscious. His tattered cap revealed that he was a sailor from an American battleship.

Q9. What did Sadao learn about the white man’s wound?
Ans. Sadao saw that a gunshot wound had been reopened on the right side of his lower back. The flesh was darkened with powder. The man had been shot recently and had not received treatment. It was a bad possibility that the rock had impacted the wound and reopened it.

Q10.What dilemma did Sadao face about the young white man?
Ans. The white man was wounded. He needed rapid medical attention. Dr. Sadao could accomplish it. However, if they housed a white man in their home, they would be arrested. On the other hand, if they handed him over as a prisoner, he would undoubtedly die. Dr. Sadao was in a fix. It was tough for him to make any decision.

Q11.What was the attitude of Sadao and Hana towards the white man?
Ans. They looked at the motionless figure of the white man with a strange aversion. Both discussed putting him back in the sea, but neither could do so alone. They paused. Sadao claimed that the man was his enemy since he was an American. He would have turned him over to the cops if he hadn't been injured. However, he was wounded. He left the phrase incomplete, hinting that he was unable to do so.

Q12.What solution did Hana offer to resolve Sadao’s predicament?
Ans. Hana realized that neither of them could hurl the white man back into the sea. There was just one thing to do. They must carry the man into their home. They must inform the servants that they plan to hand him over to the police. She reminded her husband about his status and children. It would jeopardize all of them if they did not hand over that individual as a prisoner of war.

Q13. How did the servants react when their master told them about the wounded white man?
Ans. The servants were terrified and confused. The old gardener warned Hana that the master should not cure the white man's wound. He stated that the white man should perish. First, he was shot. The sea then seized him and wounded him with her rocks. If the master healed the damage done by the cannon and the sea, they would exact retribution on them.

Q14. How did Hana react to Sadao’s absorption in his work?
Ans. Sadao continued with his quick, crisp movements. He did not appear to hear her. She was used to his concentration while he was at work. She pondered for a second if it mattered to him what body he worked on as long as the work was done well.

Q15. In what context does Hana remember General Takima? What does she infer?
Ans. General Takima was a merciless tyrant. At home, he severely thrashed his wife. Nobody addressed it today because he'd won a fight in Manchuria. Hana remembers him in light of the sufferings of the prisoners of war. She concludes that if a man (such as General Takima) can be so brutal to a woman in his position, he will be equally terrible to a prisoner. The deep crimson marks on the white man's neck confirmed her suspicions

Q16. How did Hana react when she saw a messenger at the door in official uniform?
Ans. Hana was working hard at unaccustomed labor. When she saw the uniformed courier, her hands became shaky and she couldn't catch her breath. She feared that the servants had already revealed everything. She assumed they had come to arrest Dr Sadao.

Q17. Why, do you think, had the messenger come to Dr Sadao’s house? How did Hana react to the message and what did the messenger take exception to?
Ans. The messenger had came to request that Dr Sadao come to the palace since the old General was in pain once again. In her concern for her husband's safety, Hana inquired whether that was all. The messenger objected to the word 'all' and asked if that wasn't enough. Hana apologized for the error.

Q18. Why, do you think, did the old General not want Dr Sadao to be arrested?
Ans. Dr Sadao had advised the General that he could only take one more such attack like he experienced that day. Then he would need to be operated on. The General requested that Dr. Sadao operate on him. He had no faith in the other German-trained physicians. So he refused to let Dr. Sadao be arrested.

Q19. What plan did the old General suggest for getting rid of the ‘man’?
Ans. He believed it would be better if the white man were discreetly killed—not by the doctor, but by someone he did not know. He offered to send two of his own assassins to his home any time of night. These adept assassins would make no sound. They were familiar with the method of inward bleeding. They may even remove the body. Dr. Sadao was forced to leave the room's exterior wall open, which caused him anxiety.

Q20. Why did Sadao sleep badly at night after meeting the General?
Ans. Sadao awoke several times, imagining he heard the rustling of footsteps, the sound of a twig breaking or a stone dislodged in the garden—or any noise that someone might make when carrying a weight. This lasted for three nights. Sadao grew anxious every night because he expected the assassins to arrive..

Q21. What plan did Dr Sadao devise to get rid of the man?
Ans. Dr. Sadao planned a strategy to let the man escape to the next uninhabited island. He told him everything. He landed his boat, loaded with food and additional clothing. He instructed the man to row to a small island off the coast. He could live there till he noticed a Korean fishing boat passing by.

Q22. How was the plan of the prisoner’s escape executed?
Ans. Dr. Sadao had packed food and bottled water in his sturdy boat. He also used two quilts. After dinner, he cheked the American once more. He handed him his flashlight and instructed him to signal two flashes if he needed additional food. One signal would suggest he was okay. He had to signal at sunset, not in the dark. The man was clothed in Japanese garb, and his blond hair was covered with a black cloth.

Q23. What did Sadao tell the General after a week? Why did he wait that long?
Ans. The General had undergone an emergency procedure the week prior. The gallbladder was affected. He was in critical condition for 12 hours. Then he recovered gradually. After a week, Sadao believed the General was well enough to speak with regarding the prisoner. He informed the general that the prisoner had escaped.