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Why Did they not put him back into the sea in the lesson the enemy by Pearl S Buck?
Dr.Sadao had led the prisoner on the road to recovery. One day he went to his office and typed a letter to the chief of police reporting the whole matter. He just mentioned that he had found the escaped prisoner in front of his house on the 21st of February.
He could not bring himself to complete this confession and so, left it in his drawer. He was a law abiding citizen.
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Sadao tried to staunch the fearful bleeding. He packed the wound with the sea moss that was lying nearby on the beach.
After seeing the miserable condition of the injured man, he had pity on him and in consultation with his wife; he decided to take him home.
The dilemma they faced was that if they sheltered the white man, they would be arrested and if they turned him over as a prisoner he would certainly die.
He had lost a lot of blood due to bullet injury and required surgery immediately.
The man belonged to the enemy's army and they were conflicting over, whether to save him or not.
They were not able to bring themselves to drop him back into the sea because of their compassionate and humane nature.
Moreover, Sadao, being a doctor himself knew how to save lives and thought it unethical to let the soldier die if he could prevent it.
He was not able to control his heart.
Dr.Sadao and his wife Hana were afraid of taking him to their house because of the servants who would refuse to work for them for the fear of getting into trouble themselves.
They were afraid of harboring a prisoner of war and knew that the servants would talk.
They were worried.
The general suggested that the prisoner could be quietly killed by his own private assassins. He would send two of them to Sadao's house and all he had to do was to leave the outer partition of the white man's room open while he was sleeping.
He even offered to have the body removed quietly.
In "The Enemy" by Pearl S. Buck, the villagers did not put the injured Japanese soldier back into the sea because they saw him as a fellow human in need of help, despite the wartime animosity between their countries. Their compassion and sense of humanity overrode the hatred and violence of war.
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