english project for grade 12

1. The
Enemy
Pearl S. Buck

2. Acknowledgement
• I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to
all who gave me the possibility complete this project.
• Also, I take this opportunity to express my deep sense of
gratitude to my English teacher, Mrs. __________ I under
whose valuable guidance, this project work has been
carried out.
• I would like to extend my special thanks to my parents &
friends, without their support and coordination we would
not have been able to complete this project.
•

3. Index
• The Author
• Introduction
• Setting
• Theme
• Characters
• Summary
• Bibliography

4. The Author
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
(June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), also known
by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an
American writer and novelist. She is best
known for The Good Earth which was the best-
selling novel in the United States in 1931 and
1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In
1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in
Literature "for her rich and truly epic
descriptions of peasant life in China" and for
her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of
her missionary parents.She was the first
American woman to win that prize.

5. Introduction
• The story highlights how a Japanese doctor
saves the life of an American prisoner of war
and rises above narrow national prejudices.
He risks his honour, career, position and life
by sheltering a war prisoner of the enemy
camp and saving his life. The author has
beautifully portrayed the conflict in the
doctor’s mind as a private individual and as a
citizen with a sense of national loyalty.

6. Setting
• The story takes place on a coastal
town of Japan in the year 1941 when
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. A war
going on between America and Japan.
Japanese were hostile to the
Americans and ready to kill any
American found in their soil.

7. Theme
• ‘The Enemy’ gives the message that
humanism transcends all man made
prejudices and barriers. Dr. Sadao upholds
the ethics of medical profession in treating
an enemy. The story is a great lesson of
peace, love, sympathy, fellow feeling and
humanism.

8. Characters
1. Dr. Sadao Hoki: A Japanese doctor trained by Americans.
2. Sadao’s father: much concerned about his son’s education, a true
patriot.
3. Hana: Wife of Dr. Sadao, met in America, became friends and got
married in Japan.
4. Tom: An American prisoner of war, a soldier of U.S. Navy.
5. The old General: a sick Japanese army General, needed an operation,
trusted only Dr. Sadao.
6. An officer: A messenger of the General.
7. Gardener: an old gardener in the house of Dr. Sadao.
8. Yimi: Hana’s maid servant.
9. The cook: an old cook in the house of Dr. Sadao.

9. Summary
• Sadao was a Japanese surgeon. He studied in America and returned with
Hana, a Japanese girl whom he met there, and married her in Japan and
settled down comfortably. While most of the doctors were sent to serve the
Japanese army in the World War II, Sadao was allowed to stay home because
he was wanted by the old General who was dying. But one night into his
uneventful life came an American Navy-man, shot, wounded and dying.
Though unwilling to help his enemy, Sadao took the young soldier into his
house and provided him with medical aid. He was in danger from that
moment. Soon his servants left him. Dr. Sadao saw that the soldier was
getting well and absolutely alright. Once his patient was no more in need of
him, the doctor turned out to be his assassin, conspiring to kill him in his
sleep. He informed the General of the American and the General promised, he
would send his private men to kill the American. Sadao awaited the
American’s death every morning but to his gloom the man was still alive,
healthier and posing danger to him. At this point Sadao becomes the real man
in him, a true human being who realizes the essential worth of human life and
universal brotherhood. He thinks beyond countries and continents and races
and wars. He finds no reason to believe that the American is his enemy. Sadao
rescues the American. Thus Sadao rises above narrow prejudices and acts in a
truly humanitarian way.

10. Bibliography
• Wikipedia
• Byjus
• Vistas- cbse textbook
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