How did the gardener react when dr sadao told him about the wounded american soldier?
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The above incident is from the chapter "The Enemy". The two main characters of this story is the Japanese doctor Sadao and his wife Hana.
During the World War II an American POW( prisoner of war) was washed ashore in a critical condition. He was found lying near the house of a Japanese doctor.
The doctor was in two minds, to treat the wounded soldier as any doctor would do or being a Japanese citizen he should hand over the enemy to the army.
The old gardener was a superstitious guy. He also worked as a servant in the house. When he heard the news of the injured Pow he started pulling the hair from his upper lip out of anxiety.
The gardener cautioned his master that he should not save the injured man as nature had twice tried to kill him. In the first instance he was shot and in the second instance the sea tried to drown him and in the process got wounded by rocks.
The gardener thought that if Sadao and Hana tried to save the soldier, then the gun and the sea would consider their family as their enemies and might take revenge from them.
In the above context the gun represented the Japanese army while the sea was their motherland. Treating an enemy would call for a punishment from the authority of Japan.
Hope this helps.