FLAMINGO

CH-1 THE LAST LESSON

ANECDOTE

• INTRODUCTION
Ø Boy named Franz gets late for school
Ø Not prepared for lesson on participles given by teacher – M. Hamel
Ø Afraid of scolding
Ø Thinks of bunking day
Bright weather, chirping of birds,
Ø But had the strength to resist
open field, Prussian soldiers drilling
• BEFORE REACHING SCHOOL
Ø Crowd in front of bulletin board
Ø Franz ignores as he was getting late
Ø Blacksmith, Watcher stops Franz
Bright weather, chirping of birds,
Ø Says not to hurry. Plenty of time
open field, Prussian soldiers drilling
Ø Franz ignores and takes it as fun on him
• SCHOOL OBSERVATION
Ø Everything quiet as Sunday morning
Ø Different from usual
Ø Franz saw classmates from outside Bright weather, chirping of birds,
window open field, Prussian soldiers drilling
Ø Saw M. Hamel walking up and down with
Iron ruler under his arms
Ø Franz tries to get inside without getting
noticed
• CLASS OBSERVATION
Ø M.Hamel saw Franz but told nothing
Ø Says, “We were about to begin without you”
Ø Franz sat down at desk
Ø After a moment, observes very different things
Bright weather, chirping of birds,
Ø M.Hamel announces
open field, Prussian soldiers drilling
Ø Order from berlin to schools of Alsace and Lorraine
Ø To teach only German in schools from tomorrow
Ø This is the last French lesson
• FRANZ’s REACTION
Ø Came as thunder clap to him
Ø Hardly knew how to write
Ø Felt sorry for not learning lesson
Ø Books that earlier seemed to be heavy weight were now like
old friends which he did not wanted to give up on
Ø Idea of M. Hamel going away made Franz forget about his
ruler and how strict he was
Ø Realised blacksmith’s words
Ø Realised why old men of village were sitting
Ø While Franz was thinking about all this, Bright weather, chirping of birds,
Ø His name gets called to recite participles open field, Prussian soldiers drilling
Ø Stands up, got mixed on first few words, does not look up
• M.HAMEL EXPLAINS
Ø Tells Franz that he will not scold Franz
Ø But says that Franz should feel bad
Ø Every day student say they have plenty of time, will do it later, but time has ended
Ø Fellows will say, “You are Frenchmen but still do not know to read or write French.”
Ø Says we all have great excuses
Ø Taunts that parents would have made Franz to work for money
Ø Says in taunting manner that it is his fault that he sent Franz to water gardens and
announced holidays when he wished going for fishing (Which in real sense, M. Hamel does
not)
Ø M.Hamel talks about French language
Ø Says it the most beautiful, clearest and logical language in the world
Ø Frenchmen should guard it among themselves and never forget it
Ø because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if
they had the key to their prison
• M.HAMEL EXPLAINS GRAMMAR LESSON
Ø M.Hamel reads grammar lesson and explains
Ø Franz amazed to see how well he understood it
Ø Realises he never listened that carefully and that M. Hamel had never explained with such
patience
• LESSON IN WRITING
Ø M.Hamel had new copies for them
Ø written in a beautiful round hand — France, Alsace, France, Alsace
Ø looked like little flags floating everywhere in the school-room
Ø every one set to work, very quiet, only sound was the scratching of the pens over the paper
Ø Once some beetles flew in; but nobody paid any attention to them
Ø “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?”
• M.HAMEL’S EMOTIONS
Ø Franz observes his teacher
Ø M. Hamel sitting motionless in his chair and gazing first at one thing, then at another, as if he
wanted to fix in his mind just how everything looked in that little school-room
Ø forty years he had been there in the same place, with his garden outside the window and his
class in front of him
Ø it must have broken his heart to leave it all, to hear his sister moving about in the room
above, packing their trunks
Ø But he had the courage to hear every lesson to the very last
• ENDING OF CLASS
Ø church-clock struck twelve
Ø trumpets of the Prussians, returning from drill
Ø M. Hamel stood up, very pale, in his chair
Ø “My friends,” said he, “I—I—” But something choked him. He could not go on.
Ø he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk
Ø wrote as large as he could — “Vive La France!”
Ø stopped and leaned his head against the wall
Ø without a word, he made a gesture with his hand — “School is dismissed — you may go.”
 FLAMINGO
CH-2 THE LOST SPRING- STORIES OF STOLEN CHILDHOOD: ANEES JUNG
ANECDOTES

 ‘SOMETIMES I FIND A RUPEE IN THE GARBAGE’

Ø Saheb, rag picker, searching (scrounging) in the garbage
Ø “Why do you do this?” author asks Saheb whom she encounters every morning
Ø “I have nothing else to do,” he mutters
Ø “Go to school,”
Ø “There is no school in my neighbourhood. When they build one, I will go.”
Ø “If I start a school, will you come?” author asks, half-joking. “Yes,” he says, smiling broadly.
• FEW DAYS LATER
Ø Author saw Saheb running up to her asking if the school is ready
Ø “It takes longer to build a school,” author says, embarrassed at having made a promise that
was not meant
• AFTER MONTHS OF KNOWING SAHEB
Ø Author asks Saheb’s full name
Ø “SAHEB-E-ALAM”- lord of the universe
Ø Author says Saheb would not believe this if he gets to know the meaning of his name
Ø Saheb roams the streets with his friends, an army of barefoot boys
Ø Author seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads
Ø not lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation
Ø only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty
• AUTHOR REMEMBERS A STORY FROM UDIPI
• SEEMAPURI, WHERE SAHEB LIVES PRESENTLY
Ø Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically
Ø who live here are squatters (type of refugees) who came from Bangladesh (Saheb: from
Dhaka, Bangladesh) in 1971, many storms that swept away their fields and homes
Ø Seemapuri, a shabby place
Ø 10,000 ragpickers In structures of mud, with roofs of
Ø lived here for more than thirty years without an tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage,
identity, but with ration cards that enable them to drainage or running water
buy grain
Ø Food is more important for survival than an identity
Ø They give reason for living their beautiful homes
Ø Wherever they find food, they make tents around, children
grow up in them, becoming partners in survival and
survival in Seemapuri means rag picking
• GARBAGE TO THEM IS GOLD In structures of mud, with roofs of
Ø Why for parents? means of survival, source of their daily tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage,
bread, a roof over their heads drainage or running water
Ø Why for children? garbage wrapped in wonder, like a
game to find things, fills more hope to find more if a rupee found, excites children
• SAHEB, NO LONGER A RAGPICKER
Ø One morning, author saw Saheb, wearing shoes with holes, watching tennis
Ø Saheb, on his way to milk booth, holding a tea canister in his hand
Ø He now works in a tea stall, salary- 800 Rs. And all meals
Ø Does he like the job? Author asks
 Ø Saheb has lost the carefree look ok his face, steel canister seems heavier than the plastic
bag he would carry. The bag was his. The canister belongs to the man who owns the tea
shop.
Ø Saheb is no longer his own master!
 “I WANT TO DRIVE A CAR”
• MUKESH’S DREAM
Ø Insists on being a motor mechanic
Ø “Do you know anything about cars?” author asks. “I will learn to drive a car,”
• MUKESH’S TOWN- FIROZABAD, THE CITY OF BANGLES
Ø Every family engaged in making bangles
Ø Spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass and making bangles.
Ø Mukesh’s family among them
Ø None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to
1. furnaces with high temperatures
work
Ø law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children 2. dark dingy cells (small rooms)
out without air and light
Ø Mukesh volunteers’ author to take her home which he
3. spend their daylight hours, often
proudly says is being rebuilt
losing the brightness of their eyes
• MUKESH’S SOCIETY
Ø SOCIETY
1. stinking lanes with garbage
• INSIDE MUKESH’S HOUSE
Ø Wife of Mukesh’s elder brother 2. homes with crumbling walls,
Ø Mukesh’s father wobbly doors, no windows
Ø Mukesh’s grandmother

1. making food 1. making food

1. making food
2. weak and young
3. not much older in
years, but begun to be
commanded as bahu
4. in charge of three men
2. weak and young
3. not much older in years, but
begun to be commanded as
bahu
4. in charge of three men
2. weak and young
3. not much older in years, but
begun to be commanded as bahu
4. in charge of three men

Ø Born in the caste of bangle makers, seen nothing but bangles in every other house, every
street in Firozabad piled on four-wheeled handcarts, pushed by young men along the narrow
lanes
Ø in dark hutments, girls with their fathers and mothers, welding pieces of coloured glass into
circles of bangles
• OTHER PEOPLE IN FIROZABAD
1. making food
Ø Savita, a young girl, soldering pieces of glass, her
hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine 2. weak and young
Ø Savita does not know the sanctity of bangles,
3. not much older in years, but
symbolises an Indian woman’s Suhag, auspiciousness
begun to be commanded as bahu
in marriage
Ø “Ek waqt ser bhar khana bhi nahin khaya,” says old women- not enjoyed even one full meal
in her entire lifetime
Ø The cry of not having money to do anything except carry on the business of making bangles
Ø Years of mind-numbing toil have killed all initiative and the ability to dream
• WHY NOT A COOPERATIVE, ASKS AUTHOR
Ø fallen into the vicious circle of middlemen who trapped their fathers and forefathers
Ø even if they get organised, they will be caught by the police, beaten and dragged to jail for
doing something illegal
Ø no leader among them, no one who could help them see things differently. Their fathers
are as tired as they are
Ø They talk endlessly from poverty to apathy to greed and to injustice
• AUTHOR SAW TWO DISTINCT WORLDS
Ø Together they have imposed the baggage on the child 1. one of the family, caught in a web
Ø Before he is aware, he accepts it as naturally as his father of poverty
Ø To do anything else would mean to dare
2. the other a vicious circle of the
Ø For them, daring is not part of his growing up
sahukars, the middlemen, the
• MUKESH IS DIFFERENT
policemen, the keepers of law, the
Ø Author cheered when senses a flash of daring in Mukesh
bureaucrats and the politicians
Ø “I want to be a motor mechanic,’ he repeats, He will go to a
garage and learn. But the garage is a long way from his
home. “I will walk,” he insists.
Ø “Do you also dream of flying a plane?”
Ø Mukesh silent. Stares at the ground
Ø there is an embarrassment that has not yet turned into regret
Ø But he sticks onto his plan, dreams, this fills in ray of hope in author
Ø Few airplanes fly over Firozabad.
 FLAMINGO
CH-3 DEEP WATER BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS
ANECDOTES

• INTRODUCTION
Ø An incident happened, 10 or 11 years old
2-3 feet at the shallow and
Ø Decided to learn to swim at the Y.M.C.A pool in Yakima, safe pool
gradually going up to 9 feet
Ø From the starting had an aversion(fear) to water because of the
incident happened when he was 3-4 years old
Ø After 2-3 days at the pool, misadventure happened
• THE MISADVENTURE 2-3 feet at the shallow and
Ø Went early, no one was there, quiet place gradually going up to 9 feet
Ø Feared going alone in pool so sat on side of pool to wait
for others
Ø Big bruiser boy came, 18 years old, made fun of him
Ø Picked author and threw him at the deeper end of pool
• INSIDE THE POOL- THE FIRST TIME
Ø Swallowed water. Frightened, 2-3 feet at the shallow and gradually going up
Ø Made a plan to 9 feet
Ø Seemed a long way down
Ø 9 feet like 90, lungs about to burst
Ø When touched bottom, applied all his energy
Ø He thought he would come to surface like cork
Ø Instead came slowly
Ø Opened eyes, saw nothing but water, reached
to grab rope but of no use
Ø Was suffocating, tried to yell, no sound came out
Ø Eyes and nose came out of water but not mouth
Ø Tried to bring legs up, but they hung like dead weight
Ø Screamed but went back to the bottom of pool
• INSIDE THE POOL- THE SECOND TIME
Ø Lost all breath, lungs ached, heart throbbed
2-3 feet at the shallow and gradually going up
Ø But remembered the strategy
to 9 feet
Ø Went down endlessly, opened eyes, saw
nothing
Ø Screams frozen, only the beating of heart and
pounding of head were a sign that he was alive
Ø Reached bottom, jumped with all his energy
Ø Jump made no difference
Ø Looked for ropes, ladders, nothing but water
Ø shook and trembled with fright. Arms wouldn’t move. Legs wouldn’t move
Ø Nothing happened
Ø there was light, eyes and nose were almost out
Ø but started down a third time
• INSIDE THE POOL- THE THIRD TIME
Ø Sucked for air- got water
Ø Got surrounded by blackness
Ø Too tired to jump, felt no pain and got fainted
• OUT OF THE POOL
Ø When eyes opened, found himself out of the pool, vomiting beside the pool
Ø Hours later, walked home, weak, trembling, could not have dinner, cried on bed
Ø Never went back to pool, feared water
• FEW YEARS LATER
Ø Whenever thought of going in water legs would become paralysed. Icy horror would grab his
heart
Ø This fear ruined his fishing trips
Ø Could not feel the joy of canoeing, boating, and swimming
Ø Used every way to overcome fear but all waste
Ø Finally, 1 October, decided to get an instructor and learn to swim
• LEARNING SWIMMING
Ø went to a pool and practiced five days a week, an hour each day
Ø The instructor put a belt around him, and connected it to a rope. The rope was further
around a pulley. This way, the instructor made Douglas go into the water back and forth
by pulling and releasing the rope.
Ø He made Douglas swim bits by bits. Gradually, he made him learn to exhale and inhale
while in water and many other strokes.
Ø The author earlier doubted whether he would be able to swim but later commanded over
his legs.
Ø In April, the instructor assured Douglas that he has learnt swimming
Ø But Douglas was not confident and went to different places to check Wentworth lake,
Ø This went till July. islands, glaciers etc.
Ø At once, he got scared a bit during swimming but laughed and
overcame it confidently.
Ø He shouted with joy. He finally overcame his fear with his determination and will power.
Ø The experience taught him many things and had a deep meaning in his life.
• CONCLUDING NOTES
Ø In death there is peace. There is terror only in the fear of death.
Ø “All we have to fear is fear itself”
Ø At last he felt released — free to walk the trails and climb the peaks and to brush aside
fear
 VISTAS
THE THIRD LEVEL BY JACK FINNEY
ANECDOTES
v Story about Charley, 31 years old
v Claimed that he had gone to the third level at the Grand Central Station which only has two levels in reality
v Told this to his friend who is a psychiatrist
v Friend explained that
• Charley was experiencing hallucination
§ Also, Charley was unhappy
§ Due to the burden of modern world problems, he was experiencing something which was not present
v Charlie begins to believe that he has been experiencing all this to escape the harsh realities of the modern
world Collecting stamps called
v Even his stamp collecting is present in order to make him feel protected. Philately.
v But Charlie denies, says his grandfather started stamp collection even when there was peace, harmony and
security
v Even President Roosevelt collected stamps
v WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED?
§ Charlie was wearing a suit and a hat with fancy band
§ Wanted to get home to Louisa, his wife Where one boarded
§ Entered the Grand Central and took the stairs to the first level trains like 20th century.
§ Went down another floor to reach the second level
§ Entered a doorway and got lost Where one boarded
§ Found nothing new about it as he usually got lost every time, he came to trains like 20th century.
The Grand Central.
§ Walked into an unusual corridor, entered into the third level
§ Thought he is back to the second level but then noticed some things Where one boarded
§ To make sure, he went to the newspaper boy who was selling ‘The World’ trains like 20th century.
A newspaper which was discontinued years ago. Date on the newspaper
Was June 1, 1894
§ Went to the ticket window to get tickets for Galesburg, Illinois for him
and His wife
Where one boarded trains like 20th century.

§ Took out money, the clerk informed that this is not acceptable legal money
§ Charley realised that the currency used that time was different, ran away
as did not wanted himself to get in jail
§ Next day went to withdraw his entire savings and got them converted into old money
§ Unfortunately, he could not find the way to the third level corridor again even after trying so hard
v After a while, he went back to finding distractions with the help of stamps
v One day, Sam disappeared
v Charley suspected that Sam had gone to Galesburg because:
Where one boarded trains like 20th century.
§ One night, Charley came across a first-day cover.
§ found by surprise one of his grandfather’s old
first day covers.
§ Someone had mailed it to his father at his home
at Galesburg.
§ Post mark showed that it had been there since July 18, 1894.
 § It had a letter inside:

§ The note signed as Sam

v Charlie found out from the coin store that Sam had bought old currency worth eight hundred dollars which
was to be utilised to set up grain business which Sam always wanted to do.
v Also, Charlie thought that Sam would not be able to his old business which he used to do in the present time.
Which old business?
v The business of being a psychiatrist
v Sam, was Charlie’s psychiatrist

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VISTAS
CH-4 THE ENEMY BY Pearl S. Buck
ANECDOTES
v main character of the story- Dr. Sadao Hoki
v house situated on the coast of Japan, used to climb up trees in his childhood
v his father used to point towards the islands, would say that those were the stepping stones towards the
future of Japan
v his father never played or joked with him, was very concerned about his education, sent him to America at
age of 22 to study surgery and medicine
v Sadao returned at the age of 30, became famous as a surgeon as well as a scientist, father died after seeing
him successful
v Sadao was not sent abroad as a doctor along with the army
v Had a wife, named Hana, met her in America at a Professor’s house who 1. he was working on a research to
discover a treatment for wounds
Arranged a party for foreign students
v He waited to fall in love with her until he was sure that she was Japanese which would make them instantly
clean
As Sadao knew that his father would never accept her unless she was a
Japanese 2. General was suffering from a
v Married in Japan in a traditional way, had two children disease which needed to be
v They were looking towards the beach when they saw a figure appear out operated upon in case of an
Of the beach, was a man, heavily injured, lied down on the coast, fainted emergency.
v Both ran downstairs to help him, Sadao turned the man’s head, Hana
realized he was a White man (an American)
v The man had yellow hair, was wounded badly, blood all over, a gun wound
v There was no one except Sadao, Hana and the White man
v Sadao answered to himself that the best thing was to put the man back into the sea but his hands could not
stop preventing the blood to flow
v Sadao and his wife were in a dilemma (confusion)
v Sadao said that if they give him shelter, they would be arrested for sheltering an enemy
v If they handed him to the Japanese army as a prisoner, he would die in the prison
v Because both options were not suitable, the best option was to put him back to the sea, but none of them
moved
v Sadao picked up the cap and read the words, “U.S. Navy” written on the cap, the man was a prisoner of war
v Both discussed that the man must have tried to escape from the prison and had been shot in the back.
v Were not able to get the courage to throw him back to the sea
v Sadao reasoned that if the man was well, he would hand him over to the police without any hesitation but he
was concerned because the man was injured
v Hana said that if he could not throw him into the sea, the second option was to carry him home
v Sadao concerned that servants would object as they were sheltering an enemy
v Hana said that they would tell the servants that they will hand the man to the police when he gets recovered,
told Sadao to think of their future and told him to hand over the man to the police after recovery or they will
be in danger, Sadao agreed
v Lifted the man together, carried him to Sadao’s father’s bedroom
v Sadao asked Hana to get hot water for washing the man, Hana called Yumi (a servant) for washing the man
v Man’s heartbeat was very faint, Sadao had to operate to prevent the man from dying
v Hana terrified, Sadao walked out of room to inform other servants, Hana followed as did not wanted to stay
alone with the enemy
v Servants reaction 1. he was working on a research to discover a treatment for wounds which
would make them instantly clean

2. General was suffering from a disease which needed to be operated upon

in case of an emergency.
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v Hana screamed at Yumi but later realised that servants can tell this to police officers, hence changed her tone
v Hana said Yumi to return to her work, left alone with the White man
v Hana took a small clean towel and washed his face, cleaned his upper body, became more restless, called
Sadao
v Sadao came carrying his emergency bag and wearing his surgeon’s coat, prepared to operate the White man
v Sadao started his work, Hana very obedient, helped Sadao in every way possible, brought towels, laid down
mats, told Sadao about Yumi denying washing the White man but Sadao paid no attention, hands working
very fast
v Sadao told Hana to inject anaesthesia to patient, Hana never done that earlier, Sadao said that it was very easy,
Sadao removed the packing and the blood came out, Hana could not see it, choked, ran out, Sadao heard
sound of vomiting
v As Sadao needed Hana’s help to operate, he thought that it would be better for her to empty her stomach so
that she would not feel uneasy again.
v Sadao felt irritated that he was not able to help her wife due to the man lying like a dead body
v Sadao thought that there was no reason for him to save the man because there was no reason for him to live.
Even then, his hands continued working and operating the White man.
v Hana entered room confidently, asked what she was supposed to do, Sadao told her to put some anaesthetic
on cotton and to place the cotton near the man’s nostril, also told her to remove the cotton when the man
started to breathe heavily
v Sadao was quick, saw bullet near the kidney, made some surgical cuts on the body and removed the bullet, the
White man murmured “guts”, later became silent, Sadao check pulse again
v Sadao stopped Hana from giving more anaesthesia, filled a syringe with the medicine and pushed the vaccine
into the man’s left arm
v Man woke up, was full of fear, Hana served him food as the servants refused to enter that room
v Hana said man to not be afraid, man surprised that Hana could speak English, Hana told that she lived in
America for a long time, Hana said to man that he would soon become strong
v Sadao visited the man on the third day after operation, man was weak and sitting, Sadao screamed and
ordered him to lie down as he could die if not taken proper rest
v White man asked what Sadao would do with him, Sadao said that he himself did not know, disclosed that he
know that the man is a prisoner of man, stopped man from speaking further
v Hana came, told Sadao that servants would not stay with them if the American White man lived anymore and
that Yumi and servants thought that Hana and Sadao liked Americans
v Sadao denied, said Americans were their enemies but he had been trained in such a way that he could not let a
man die and would help him in whichever way he could
v Servants taunt Sadao and Hana
1. Old gardener said that the master should have let the White man
v Hana felt that the servants were right But
bleed when he was so close to death
she had some feelings for the man That
she herself could not analyse 2. the cook said disrespectfully that their master was so proud of his
v She did not like the prisoner, injured man skill at saving lives that he did not bother whose life he was saving.
told his name “TOM” to Hana, she
3. Yumi got worried about the children and wondered that when
ignored, injured man was a great trouble
they will grow up, they would be labelled as the children of traitor
to her and was a threat to Sadao and her
(dhokebaaz) and as Sadao was helping an American, all people of
v Sadao doing his role of doctor perfectly,
Japan would consider him to be an enemy of Japan.
Would examine the wound everyday
v On the 7th day, two incidents happened, 1. the servants of the house left in the morning, Hana did not show her
feelings to the servants and paid them off gracefully and also thanking them for their services, Yumi cried
v Hana gets worried, asked Sadao that why were they not behaving with the prisoner of war just like other
Japanese would have and let him die? why are they not clear about what to do? Sadao said nothing and went
into the room where the prisoner of war was resting
v Instructed the White man to stand for 5 minutes today and increase the time every day, said it would be good
for everyone that the man gets healthy as soon as possible, hinted that they wanted to get rid of the American
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v Man said “Okay”, thanked Sadao for everything, Sadao said to not thank him too early, terror on man’s face
appeared
v 2nd incident on the 7th day, a messenger wearing official uniform came to the house, Hana scared, felt that
servants must have told that they were sheltering an enemy, unable to speak, messenger stood in front of
Sadao
v Messenger said that Sadao was supposed to go with the messenger to the palace, said that the old General
was in pain and Sadao was supposed to treat him as a doctor, Hana relieved, took a deep breath
v Sadao said goodbye to Hana, Hana told that she thought that the messenger has come to arrest Sadao
v Sadao became sad knowing how Hana is in too much stress due to all the incidents, decided that he must get
rid of the man by any way
v Sadao went to the General, narrated him the entire story
v General felt that Sadao was a necessary part of his life at that moment and said that Sadao cannot be
arrested, added that if Sadao gets death sentence and the General needs to get operated the next day, then
who would operate upon him, said that he would not let this happen
v Sadao suggested that there were many other surgeons in Japan, General replied that he did not trust anyone
else other than Sadao, added that the best surgeons had been trained by the Germans and for them, the
operation would be successful even if the General died
v Very interesting lines: then he asked Sadao that being a Japanese, could he not combine the two foreign
elements
§ 1. The harsh nature of the Germans- referring to giving the prisoner of war to the Japanese army
§ 2. With the emotional nature of Americans- referring to saving his life during operation

Sadao said that he was not sure about it but he was willing to try, General said that the General must not be
the trial case
v General said that the best solution was to kill the man silently. Said that the White man would not be killed by
Sadao but by General’s hired killers (assassins)
§ General would send two killers to Sadao’s house that night or any night
§ Wanted Sadao to keep the door open of the room where the prisoner rested
§ Killers would come, kill the White man and would take away his body
v Sadao went back home, kept on thinking about the plan, thought that in this way, he would not be involved in
the death of the America man, decided to not tell Hana about it
v Sadao came into the prisoner’s room, surprised to see the man out of his bed, warned the man not to stand
and walk
v Man thanked Sadao and said that if he had not reached Sadao that day, then he would have died, added that if
all the Japanese people would have been like Sadao, then the war would not have happened
v Sadao said that maybe this could be true, bowed to him and said goodnight
v Sadao was restless all night as the killers had to come, imagined the sound of footsteps and that some men
were carrying the American’s dead body, could not sleep the whole night
v In the morning, Sadao made an excuse to go to the American’s room, saw the man asleep, could hear the
sounds of his breathing
v Hana asked again that what would they do with the man, Sadao promised that he would decide in one or two
days
v Sadao thought that maybe the killers would come the next night, waited, found out that the American was still
there the next morning, waited for another night, both Sadao and Hana got scared of the sound of loud crash,
American still alive and present the third morning
v Man announced happily that he was well, Sadao could not withstand waiting for the killers to come the next
night, he was not bothered about the man’s life but he could not bear the stress any more
v Sadao said to the man that he was well now and strong enough to sail a boat, planned that if he arranged a
boat, filled it with food and extra clothing, the man would be able to row it to the nearby island which was not
guarded and not inhabited (matlab koi rehta bhi nahi tha us island par and koi army wagerah bhi nahi thi),
instructed the man to live there until he spotted a Korean fishing boat pass by and go along with it
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v White man stared at Sadao and asked whether it was necessary for him to do so. Sadao appealed that the
place he was living in was known to everyone, White man agreed
v Sadao made arrangements, pulled out a big boat in the night, placed food, water and two quilts in it, worked
without a torch as did not want to be spotted by anyone
v Checked the man’s body temperature and heartbeat, high heartbeat as the American was excited
v Young man said to Sadao that he was saving his life once again, Sadao said that it was not like that and that he
was sending him because he could not keep him any longer
v Sadao gave the man his own torch, instructed him that if the food gets over before the Korean boat arrives,
then the man must signal Sadao with two flashes of the torch at the dusk time (evening jab sunset ho raha
hota ha), asked him to be careful 1. to not use torch during night
v American shook hands and walked away towards the boat
2. can eat raw fish but must not cook it as
---------------------next scene---------------------------------------------------- the fire could be spotted by the guards
v A week ago, the General had been operated in an emergency by Sadao, General was weak after the operation
v Sadao informed him that the man escaped, he did not have the courage to ask General about what happened
to the killers he was about to send to kill the White man
v At Sadao’s home, servants returned, everything was normal
v The General was surprised and said that as he was suffering from bad health, he had forgotten about the
promise that he had made of sending those killers
v General felt sorry for being careless, added that it was not that he did not love Japan or he was escaping from
his duty, looked at Sadao expecting support
v Sadao said that he understood the General’s position, he understood that the General was in his control and as
a result, Sadao was safe, said that he trusted the loyalty of General towards Japan
v General was relaxed and said that Sadao was a good man and that he would be rewarded for his goodness
v but for Sadao, he got his reward when he found no trace of torch light in the evening which meant that the
White man found a Korean boat and had gone with it safely back home
v stood at the veranda and thought “WHY COULD I NOT KILL HIM?”

*MAGIC SENTENCE: Sadao’s heads and hands were moving in different directions

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