The Enemy Question Answer 12th English

The Enemy  by Pearl and Buck

Question 1:

Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?

ANSWER:

Dr. Sadao was a famous surgeon and scientist of Japan.He was working on a discovery which would render wounds entirely clean. He had spent eight valuable years of his youth in America to learn all that   could be learnt of surgery and medicine there.He was a sympathetic man who remained loyal to his profession even in adverse situations. He lived in his ancestral square stone house in Japan which was built upon rocks, above a narrow beach, on the Japanese coast.

Adverse- विपरीत परिस्थितियों

Tender- मदत

Ancestral- पूर्वज

Sympathetic-सहानुभूति

 The wounded man was a prisoner of war who had escaped with a bullet on his back. Since Japan was at war with America, harbouring an enemy meant being a traitor to Japan. Dr Sadao could be arrested if anyone complained against him and accused him of harbouring an enemy.However, he did not get punished for this offence as it was never revealed to anyone, except his wife,

Harbouring- शरण देना

Accused- दोषी करार

Offense- अपराध

Revealed- उजागर किया

Q3. Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?

Ans. The gardener and the cook were frightened that their master was going to heal the wound of a white man,an enemy. They felt that after being cured he (the white man) will take revenge on the Japanese. Yumi, the maid, was also frightened. She refused to wash the white man. Hana rebuked the maid who had refused to wash a wounded helpless man. Servants left the house.Hana did not want Dr Sadao to clean the dirty and unconscious prisoner.

Then she dipped a small clean towel into the steaming hot water and washed the white man’s face. She kept on washing him until his upper body was quite clean. But she dared not turn him over.

Unconscious- बेहोश 

Steaming hot water- गर्म पानी

Frightened-डर गया

rebuked -फटकार

Q4. What will Dr Sadao and his wife do with the man?

Ans. Dr Sadao and his wife, Hana, had told the servants that they only wanted to bring the man to his senses so that they could turn him over as a prisoner. However, Dr Sadao was against handing over a wounded man to the police. He decided to carry him into his house. He operated upon him and extracted the bullet from his body. He kept the white man in his house. He and his wife looked after him and fed him till he was strong enough to walk on his legs.At last Dr Sadao saved his life by sending him in his boat .

Extracted-बाहर निकालना

Fed- खिलाया

Q5. What will Dr Sadao do to get rid of the man?

Ans.Dr Sadao had told the old General that he had operated upon a white man.Dr Sadao told him each and every thing about incident. The General promised to send his private silent killer to kill the man  and remove his body. Dr Sadao  waited anxiously for three nights. Their loyal servants had left their house. His wife Hana had to cook, clean the house and serve the wounded man. Dr Sadao told Tom, the white man, that he was quite well then.He decided to save his patient one more time.

 Dr. Sadao offered him his personal boat with water bottle, food and extra clothing to the American soldier when he left his house. He then advised the soldier to go to a nearby island where no one lived and escape from there by boarding a Korean fishing boat. Dr. 

Sadao gave the man his flashlight. He was to signal twice with his flashlight at sunset in case his food ran out.  In short, Dr Sadao helped the man to escape from Japan. At the same time he also got rid of the man.

Loyal-वफादार

anxiously-चिंतित

ran out-कम होने पर

Question 6

Why was Dr. Sadao not sent to the battlefield? 

Answer:

Dr. Sadao was a famous surgeon and scientist of Japan. He was perfecting a discovery to make the wounds completely clean.There was another reason of keeping Sadao in Japan.Old general Takima was quite sick who could need an operation any time.Dr Sadao was treating him. So he was not sent to the battlefield as his valuable services could be needed at any time in his hometown.

battlefield- युद्ध

hometown. अपने गांव

Question 7

Why did the messenger come to Dr. Sadao? What did Hana think about it? 

Answer:

On seventh day a uniformed messenger comes to Dr. Sadao to inform him that the old General was in pain again. Hana felt relieved to hear that the messenger had come only to inform Dr. Sadao about the General’s ill-health. She had earlier feared that the servants had informed the police who had sent the man in the uniform to their house to arrest Sadao.

Question 8.

How nearly had Dr. Sadao missed marrying Hana? 

Answer:

Dr. Sadao had met Hana literally by chance at an American professor’s house. He actually did not want to go there as the rooms of the house were small, the food was bad and the professor’s wife was rather talkative. But moreover Sadao had gone there he had found Hana,a new student.He fell in her love.

literally- exactly बिल्कुल

Q9. What was his father's chief concern about Dr sadao?

Ans. Sadao's father was very serious about his son's future. He would never joke or play with him. His father's chief concern was his son's education. Therefore Sadao was sent to America at the age of 22 to  learn all that he could learn of surgery and medicine and he came back at the age of 30.

Chief concern- मुख्य चिंता

Q10.Why did the servants leave Dr Sadao's house ?

Ans. Doctor sadao had given  shelter to an enemy soldier. According to the servants it was an act of treason. They looked upon the Americans as their enemies since Japan and America were at war .When they found that instead of handing over the enemy soldier to the police, Dr sadao had decided to treat him. They decided to leave his house.

treason-गद्दारी /देशद्रोह

Q 11.Give brief the character sketch of general Takima .

Ans. General Takima  was an old Japanese general. He was a very cruel person. He used to beat his wife mercilessly. He also tortured the prisoners of war very  ruthlessly. He even had a private silent killer to kill anyone. He suggested doctor to send two of them to kill the American Soldier. He said that they were quite capable and could also remove the dead body of the soldier.

mercilessly-ruthlessly निर्दयता पूर्वक

Q12.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. Dr Sadao Hoki faces a dilemma when he finds the body of an unconscious wounded white man lying on the lonely coast with dangerous rocks near his house. His first reaction was that the person was perhaps a fisherman who had been washed from his boat. He ran quickly down the steps. His wife, Hana came behind him. Being an expert surgeon, Dr Sadao saw that the man had a gun-wound on the right side of his lower back. He at once packed the wound with sea moss to stanch the fearful bleeding. Then Sadao made another observation. If they sheltered a white man in their house.They would be arrested and if they turned him over as a prisoner, he would certainly die.  The man was a prisoner of war. Being a doctor, he decided to treat the white man.

Dilemma- संदेह

Sea moss- समुद्री छोटी-छोटी घास 

Stanch-रोक देना

Q13. Dr Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?

Ans. Dr Sadao and his wife, Hana, together lifted the wounded man and carried him to an empty bedroom in their house. The man was very dirty. Sadao suggested that he had better be washed. He asked her to bring water.  She suggested that the maid, Yumi, could wash the man. They would have to tell the servants. Dr Sadao examined the man again and remarked that the man would die unless he was operated upon at once. He left the room to bring his surgical instruments.

The servants were not ready to help the enemy. Even Yumi refused to wash the white man.  Hana said with dignity that they only wanted to bring him to his senses so that they would turn him over as a prisoner. However, Yumi refused to have anything to do with him. Hana asked Yumi gently to return to her work.

 Though the sight of the white man was repulsive to her, she washed his face and his upper body. She prepared herself to give him the anaesthetic according to her husband’s instructions. She had never seen an operation. She choked and her face turned pale like sulphur. She felt like vomiting and left for a while. She returned after retching and administered anaesthetic to the man. Thus she co-operated with her husband fully to save the wounded man.

repulsive -आवेग पूर्ण

retching -उल्टी करना

anaesthetic -बेहोश करने वाली दवा

Q14. How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?

Ans. On the third day after the operation, the young man asked Dr Sadao what he was going to do with him and if he was going to hand him over to the police. Dr Sadao said that he did not know himself what he would do with the man. He ought to hand him over to the police as he was a prisoner of war.

The young man saw that Dr Sadao and his wife Hana were different from other Japanese. They spoke English well, looked after him and served him food.. Dr Sadao told everything to general about the American Soldier. General promised to send his personal assassins to kill the man and remove his body. Dr Sadao waited for three nights. Nothing happened. Then he made a plan to let the prisoner escape. He told Tom, the young American, about it. The young man stared at him and asked if he had to leave. It seemed he was reluctant to leave. Dr Sadao told him that he should understand everything clearly. It was not hidden that he was there and this situation was full of risk for himself as well as for the doctor and his family. When American Soldier came to know about Sadao's situation, he decided to leave country.

assassins -हत्यारे

reluctant -बिना इच्छा के

Q15. While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?

Ans.  Nations go to war against one another. During the war time the national leaders make propaganda against the people of other Nations. At that time we may feel enemity with other people. But we should never forget that we are all human beings. Nations may hate each other but people do not hate one another simply because they belong  to different countries. When a person is faced a the situation where he can save another person's life  he generally acts on humanitarian grounds that is what doctor did.  He saved the life of an American Soldier although at that time Japan and American were at war.

humanitarian -मानव कल्याणकारी 

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Ch-7

The Interview by Christopher Silvester 

 Textual Question answer

Q1. What are some of the positive views on interviews?

Answer

Over the  last 130 years, the interview has become a commonplace of journalism. It is a useful means of communication.It is  an art, that brings out truth . Denis Brian has stated that in today's world we get to know "our contemporaries through their interviews.

Q2 Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?

Answer

Celebrity writers believe that interviews unwanted interfere in their private lives. They regard themselves as victims of interviews. They claim that the interview in some way diminishes them, just like some ancient cultures believed that a portrait of a person takes away his soul. Certain celebrities like V.S Naipaul have claimed that interviews leave them wounded, while others like Rudyard Kipling have referred to it as a crime and an immoral act.

Q3. What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?

Answer

Some primitive cultures believed that photographing a person is no less than stealing his/her soul out of the body and rendering him incomplete and slighted.

*rendering him incomplete and slighted

उसे अधूरा और तुच्छ बना दिया

Q4. What do you understand by the expression "thumbprints on his windpipe"?

Answer

This expression reveals the feeling of suffocation and deep pain that one goes through during the course of his interview.

The interview is an assault on a person as it makes him so tense.

 

Q5. Who, in today's world, is our chief source of information about personalities?

Answer

In modern times, the chief source of information on personalities is the interviewer who, through his power and influence, gathers information and provides us with the best possible information on the interviewees. He extracts everything significant through his questions for us

Q6. Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.

Answer

Yes, Umberto Eco, in all possibilities, likes being interviewed. He felt just at ease with the interviewer and answered all the questions fully and patiently without showing any hurry. He seems to be enjoying the interview all the time 

He doesn't show a trace of impatience and irritating. He was mannerly, warm and properly responsive as well.

Q7. How does Eco find the time to write so much?

Answer

There are two factors that explain how Eco was able to write so much. He says that each man has  lots of vacant spaces in his life.

Eco writes in these vacant spaces.

 He says that he did most of his writing during these free intervals.

About his novel writing,he says," I am a professor who writes novels on Sunday.

 Second, he explains that people wondered that he (Eco) had written so much on various subjects. But the fact is that he was writing on the same lines and same interests: peace, non-violence, etc. All his works were linked with the thread of common interests. 

Q8.. What was distinctive about Eco's academic writing style?

Answer

Umberto Eco's academic writing style is quite distinctive. It has a certain playful and personal quality about it. It is a marked departure from a regular academic style, which is usually depersonalized and

often dry and boring.

distinctive-clearly different from others

डिˈस्टिङ्‌क्‌टिव़्‌

Q9. Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?

Answer

Umberto Eco considered himself an academic scholar first and a novelist later. He makes his preference clear by saying, "I consider myself a university professor who writes novels on Sundays" On week days he attends academic conferences and does other scholarly, non-fictional work

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Answer

"The Name of the Rose' is different sort of novel. It is quite serious novel. It is a detective story at one level. But it also probes into metaphysics, theology and medieval history. It is deep and difficult novel.publishers believed that people like trash and don't like difficult experience reading, the sale of book proved that it was not true. It was sold 10-15 million copies . Such readers don't like trash but

the reasons for the success of the book, however, remain a mystery.

theology- study of religion 

थ़िˈऑलजि

metaphysics- in simpler terms? Metaphysics is the study of reality and existence.

Q11. How did Rudyard Kipling look at interviews?

Ans: Rudyard Kipling condemned interviews. His wife writes in her diary that Rudyard Kipling told the reporters that he called being interviewed as immoral and a crime like an offence against any person. It merited punishment. It was cowardly and vile.

Q12. Why did Lewis Carroll have a horror of the interviewer?

Ans: Lewis Carroll was said to have had a just horror of the interviewer. It was his horror of being lionized which made him thus repel would-be acquaintances, interviewers, and those seeking his autographs. So, he never consented to be interviewed.

Q13. What does Umberto Eco mean by the concept of Interstices in our lives?

Ans. Interstices means vacant space or cracks in something. Eco says that each man has vacant spaces (free time when one has nothing to do) in his life. One can make use of such interstices for thinking about some creative ideas.

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Going Places Question Answer 12th English

Ch-8

Going Places by A.R. Barton 

 Textual Question answer

Q1.Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?

Ans: Sophie knew her father well. He would be angry if he knew of her meeting with the young Irish footballer, Danny Casey. She didn’t tell him. When Geoff told his father about it, he became angry. He turned his head to look at her with disdain. At this Sophie wriggled where she was sitting at the table.

Q2.Does Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey?

Ans: No, Geoff doesn’t believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey. First, he looks round in disbelief and says

"It can’t be true”. Again he says, “I don’t believe it.” Sophie then narrates how Danny Casey came and stood beside her. Geoff asks her, “What does he look like?” So, he doesn’t seem to be convinced that Sophie met Danny Casey.

Q3. Does her father believe her story?

Ans: No, Sophie’s father does not believe her story. When Geoff tells him that Sophie met Danny Casey, his father looked at Sophie with disdain. He ignores her totally. He thinks that it is yet another ‘wild story’. He begins to talk about Tom Finny, another great football player.

Q4. How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?

Ans: Geoff was always the first to share her secrets. So, she told him about meeting Danny Casey. She also told him about her plan to meet him next week. She suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing. She longed to know them. She wished that someday he might take her with him. She saw herself riding there behind Geoff.

Q5. Which country did Danny Casey play for?

Ans: Danny Casey played for Ireland.

Q6.Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?

Ans: Sophie and Jansie would soon pass out of their school. Only a few months were left. Jansie knew very well that both of the them were earmarked for biscuit factory. Sophie had wild dreams about her career. Jansie was a realist. She knew that they did not pay well for shop work and Sophie’s father would not allow her to work there.

Q7. What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her from having such dreams?

Ans: Sophie wanted to open a boutique. It would be the most amazing shop that city had ever seen.Alternatively, she would become an actress and have the boutique as a side business. She also thought of being a fashion designer. Jansie had her feet firmly planted to the ground. She wanted Sophie to be sensible and drop all her utopian plans because all of them required much money and experience.

Q8. Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?

Ans: Jansie was very interested in things that did not concern her. She wanted to know other people’s affairs. She would spread the news in the whole neighbourhood. So, Sophie didn’t want Jansie to know about her story with Danny. It may also be mutual rivalry and one-up manship on her part. Sophie was startled to learn that Geoff had told Jansie about her story with Danny.

Q9. Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?

Ans: No, Sophie did not really meet Danny Casey. She was very fascinated by the young Irish footballer. She imagined his coming. She sat in the park, waiting for Casey and knowing that he would not come. She felt sad. Sadness was a hard burden to carry. She was always lost in a dreamy world where she imagined Casey meeting her.

Q10. Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny Casey in person?

Ans: The only occasion when Sophie got to see Danny Casey in person was when the family went to watch United on Saturday. Sophie, her father and little Derek went down near the goal. Geoff went with his mates higher up. United won two-nil. Her idol Casey drove in the second goal. She saw the Irish genius going round two big defenders on the edge of penalty area. He beat the hesitant goal keeper from a dozen yards. Sophie glowed with pride. She was very happy.

Q11. Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?

Ans: Sophie and Jansie are poles apart in tastes and temperament. Sophie has fantastic dreams and floats in a fairy land. She is an incurable escapist who won’t come out of her dreams. Jansie is down to earth—a realist. Sophie wants to do something sophisticated. Jansie knows that these things require a lot of money which their families do not possess. Jansie also knows that they were earmaked for the biscuit factory. She even advises Sophie to be sensible and practical. Sophie considers Jansie ‘nosey’ and does not want to confide in her.

Q12. How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father?

Ans:Sophie’s father has a plumpy face looking grimy and sweaty. He doesn’t seem to be a soft or sophisticated man. Sophie fears his agressive manliness. He is a realist and does not believe in his daughter’s wild stories. He loves watching football. He hopes young Casey will be as good as Tom Finney. He wishes that the young footballer keeps away from all distractions.  When the Irish genius beats the hesitant goal keeper, Sophie’s father screams with joy and pride. He goes to a pub to celebrate the victory.

Q13. Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than any other person? From her perspective, what did he symbolize?

Ans: Geoff is the only person who listens to Sophie’s fantasies and long cherished dreams. Her father is too bossy and aggressive. He hates Sophie’s fantastic stories. Even little Derek – makes fun of her growing rich. Her classmate Jansie is ‘nosey’ and can’t be trusted with a secret. Only Geoff can be trusted to keep all the secrets of Sophie to himself.

From her perspective, Geoff symbolises an elder brother who has grown up and visited places unknown to her. She wished that someday her brother might take her to those places.  He speaks softly so as not to break the heart of the young dreamer.

Q14. What socio-economic background did Sophie belong to? What are the indicators of her family’s financial status?

Ans: Sophie belongs to a lower middle class family. She is an escapist and has wild dreams. She dreams of things she can’t have in real life. Jansie tells her that boutique needs a lot of money. Sophie knows that the family doesn’t have money. She says, “If ever I came into money, I’ll buy a boutique.” Even little Derek understands her unrealistic nature.

Geoffs occupation reflects their socio-economic background. He is an apprentice mechanic. He travels to his work each day to the far side of the city. His jacket is shapeless. Her father lacks sophistication. He is a heavy breathing man. He sits in his vest at the table. He grunts and tosses one of little Derek’s shoes from his chair on to the sofa. There is stove in the same room where dirty washing is piled in a comer. Sophie’s father goes to pub on his bicycle. All these indicators confirm their lower middle-class family background.

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