Summary Of Saboteur

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

In Ha Jin’s short story “Saboteur” a couple, Mr. Chiu and his bride, returning home from their honeymoon decide to have lunch while they wait for the train. While they are eating a police officer at a nearby table spills his tea on Mr. Chiu’s. In anger Mr. Chiu stands up and calls out the officer on his actions. The officer accuses him of lying and ends up wrongfully arresting Mr. Chiu for disturbing the peace. Mr. Chiu tells his wife to return home without him and send help. While in jail the police chief tells him he has to apologize for his actions and admit to his crime at which he refuses. Stricken with heart disease and hepatitis Mr. Chiu pleas for his release but gets denied. Finally help arrives from home, a student Mr. Chiu once taught at the university he works at, but the police lock him up as well. After seeing how his student is being treated Mr. Chiu finally gives in and admits to the crimes. They are both released and on their way home. Out of anger and hate for the actions of the police Mr. Chiu eats and drinks at multiple restaurants on the way to the train station to spread his hepatitis

When i started reading “Saboteur” by Ha Jin, i sympothized with the main character, Mr Chiu after he was wrongly arrested by the police officers. Mr.Chiu was innocent. Mr. Chiu was in a difficult situation, he had to find a way home without causing problems, but during his process we found out what Mr. chiu was really like. Mr.Chiu is a caring, certain ,and an ambitious person.

The father does not comply with his son and leaves the naked man alone in the cold. This further shows the differences between the boy and his father. The final contrast between the two is exemplified with the ending. Throughout the book the reader is allowed to assume that if the son dies in the novel then the father would consequently commit suicide. At the end of the story when the father dies first the boy stays strong and decides to blindly follow other survivors and put his faith in them. Throughout, the story; however the father doesn't put any trust into anyone. His son, being a foil of him decides to put his faith into other survivors and takes a leap of faith and follow them their camp. This instance further shows the stark difference between the father and the son.

The short story “ Saboteur” by Ha Jin, is narrated in a limited third person point

In the story the “Saboteur,” by Ha Jin, a man named Mr. Chiu and his wife are riding on a train, to visit Majin, when a police officer singles him out and splashes tea on the couple’s feet. Mr. Chiu is sick, so his outside appearances make him seem like an easy target. Mr. Chiu stands up to the police officer and ends up being arrested. At first, Mr. Chiu was determined to not sign the confession, but he eventually signs it to get himself and Fenjin, his lawyer, out and stop the torture. As revenge, Mr. Chiu sets out to infect citizens of Muji with hepatitis. The central theme of this story is righteousness vs. injustice. The author uses character, conflict, and point of view to support the theme. How? Through character development, point

Mr. Chiu unintentionally became the saboteur that he was accused of and there's no indication that he regrets his choices. Although Mr. Chiu lives in a communist society where the Cultural Revolution was redefining the way of life for many Chinese people, there are still some fundamental principles of law and order that have not and will not change. His pride can be confused with arrogance and in this story his pride was definitely a character flaw. However, the complex human experience of Mr. Chiu does not excuse the fact that he contributed to the outbreak of Hepatitis in that region of Muji City. What he did was wrong but the resulting outbreak of Hepatitis has many layers and the blame cannot solely be put on Mr. Chiu. He

The first few lines of the story set the stage for the entire work: "Fugu is a fish caught off the shores of Japan. The fish has held a special

The story is presented through the thoughts of the narrator, and the parent’s concern is better portrayed by use of syntax structure. Readers can derive from the lack of paragraph breaks and indentions that the narrator is having a continuous train of thought. Thinking deeply, the narrator is desperately trying to find a logical reason behind the differing thoughts associated with the Old Dictionary and their son. He or

This story also paints the picture of a father who would not give up on regaining his time with his son. It shows the father desperately trying to rectify the mistrust issues he created because he stated to the boy when they were sitting in the diner after the highway patrol redirected them away from the snow-covered route home that she would never forgive him if he did not get the boy home for

“Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, focuses on the relationship between the protagonist, who is referred to as ‘Child’, and his father, referred to as ‘Ba’. The opening story follows the protagonist as he is struggling to overcome writers block, whilst dealing with his estranged Vietnamese father who is visiting. A number of flashbacks are used as a literary device to divulge into the protagonists past with his father as well as the fathers past. This reveals, not only an abusive past with his father, but also his father’s memories of the Vietnam war. It becomes clear that the son makes excuses for his father, with his girlfriend Linda also noting this, “I think you’re making excuses for him…You’re romanticising his past to make sense of the things you said he did to you” (pp.20). The protagonist reflects this himself, making the excuse that “he was a soldier” (pp.13), and that is why his father treated him as he did. The protagonist, despite once being able to admit to Linda that his father abused him, can no longer admit this, as his relationship with his father grows, and it can be argued that he is willing to overlook his past in an attempt to reconcile with his father. “It was too much these words, and what connected to them” (pp.13).

When he fell in love I believe that the father was conflicted with chasing his dreams or staying and living the dream his beloved had envisioned. At the time he might have felt like he was making the decision that he wanted but as the years went by he regretted his choice but chose to continue living his life never fully being who he really wanted to be.

This conflict allowed the protagonist to be further constructed when he was told the reason behind his father’s actions because his reaction of remorse and repentance -by going back to the childcare centre to make the children laugh - and finally understanding the meaning behind his father’s words enables us, the audience, to understand that their relationship has been mended through the protagonist’s change of

When describing his ex-wife to the boy he states the devotion he had for her. He explains his emotions for her as, “‘There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete.’” (McCullers 2). The man believes he cannot function without her, she is needed to make his life complete. These emotions are the reason why the conflict is so devastating to him, and how he learns to accept and love everything. By loving the woman so much he doesn’t realize the truth about her and later he has to face this. After the long travels in a quest to find her and her answers he thinks about love and sees a new perspective. The man explains to the boy that, “‘They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.’” The old man whispers to the boy, “‘A tree. A rock. A cloud...And now I am a master. Son. I can love anything. No longer do I have to think about it even. I see a street full of people and a beautiful light comes in me. I watch a bird in the sky. Or I meet a traveler on the road. Everything, Son. And anybody. All stranger and all loved!’” (McCullers 3-4). The man finally gives up on asking and finds his own answers. He believes that everything should be loved, and then slowly increase in complexity, to always achieve the best outcome in

The narrator’s family has a tradition of fishing, the mother in the story loves this tradition,