While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
In the present time people are more concern about their life and family then their country. Whenever we read information regarding war in newspaper we feel hatred against the enemy side. And in the case of Dr. Sadao the man was his country’s enemy he also had hatred against him but instead this he helped the injured man and did his duty towards his profession. It was definitely the humanity, sympathy and compassion which makes a man raise above all the hatred. And due these emotions Dr. Sadao helped his enemy.
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.
What will Dr Sadao do to get rid of the man?
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?
Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?
Will Dr Sadao be arrested on the charge of harbouring an enemy?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?
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?
What will Dr Sadao and his wife do with the man?
What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldier? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dereliction of duty or simply self-absorption?
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
What does the third level refers to?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What kind of a person was Evans?
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
What do you think was Jo’s problem?
Did the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief?
Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?
Why is an adult’s perspective on life different from that of a child’s?
‘The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.’ What are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?
We need a new system for the age of ecology - a system which is embedded in the care of all people and also in the care of the Earth and all life upon it. Discuss.
Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?
Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection? Discuss.
Will the clues left behind on the question paper put Evans back in prison again?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?