The Enemy Summary
Ch-4 The Enemy : Pearl S.Buck The Enemy is a war-fiction story by American writer Pearl S. Buck. It is set in the times of World War II. A young American soldier has managed to escape from the clutches of Japanese soldiers and has swum across the ocean to find himself washed ashore near Dr Sadao Hoki’s house. He is wounded by a bullet and lies unconscious while Sadao and his wife Hana contemplate helping him since he is a white American soldier. Given the war, he is an enemy of the state. The couple decides to help the young soldier at last. The Enemy Summary Dr Sadao Hoki is portrayed in the story as a very virtuous physician. He had lived life according to the dire necessities and demands of traditional Japanese society. Because his father wanted Sadao to have excellent formal education, he went to America as a student of surgery and medicine at the age of twenty-two. He met his wife Hana there at a professor’s house. Although he liked her, he waited to confirm her pure Japanese root...