The Enemy

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Pearl S. Buck is the author of 'The Enemy'. She was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She spent much of her life in China and wrote extensively about East-West cultura

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Dr. Sadao Hoki is a Japanese surgeon and scientist who was trained in America. He is skilled in surgery and medicine, and is working on a discovery to make wounds entirely clean. He is kept in Japan i

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Dr. Sadao faces the conflict between his duty as a doctor to save lives and his duty as a Japanese citizen during wartime. He must decide whether to save an American prisoner of war (his enemy) or tur

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Dr. Sadao meets Hana in America at Professor Harley's house while they were both students. However, he waited to fall in love with her until he was sure she was Japanese, as his father would never acc

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The American prisoner is severely wounded with a gun wound in his lower back that has been reopened by rocks. He is unconscious, bleeding heavily, and very weak from blood loss. He appears to be a you

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The servants are frightened and disapproving. They refuse to help care for the prisoner, with Yumi refusing to wash him. They believe their master should not heal the enemy and eventually leave the ho

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The gardener expresses a superstitious belief that by healing someone whom both human violence (the gun) and nature (the sea) tried to kill, they are interfering with fate and will face supernatural c

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The General represents the Japanese military authority. When Sadao confesses about the prisoner, the General promises to send assassins to kill the American quietly. However, the General becomes ill a