Saboteur's Journey According To Dhanbahadur

Titania is uncertain whether her vision is a dream or reality, because dreams are soon

came to her door, the manifestation of her nightmares came as well. Being cognizant of

The short story, “Saboteur” by Ha Jin is about a man, Mr. Chiu, who is unjustly arrested and manhandled after an unpleasant interaction with a police officer in Muji, China. As a result Mr. Chiu takes matters into his own hands to get revenge on the people who mistreated him. The theme of abuse of power in Jin’s, “Saboteur” is revealed through the author’s brilliant use of irony, tone, setting, and characterization.

“The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of her mouth damp to his kisses and her eyes plaintive with melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen in the morning. Why, these things were no longer in the world! They had existed and they existed no longer.”

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

Had there been a dream? Something about … no, she couldn’t remember. It was all so bleak, all so very similar. Too long. It had been too long. She sighed and her breath filled the room. She could feel its warmth and it comforted her some. Slowly, she opened her eyes.

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

“In the new dream the dragon-like thing was between them, and somehow the mother managed to get the girl away. When her daughter finished telling the story, there was a bizarre look on the mother's face. As soon as she asked what was wrong, the mother explained. Those were not dreams. How’s that for spirits?”

of love, and her mind slipped over onto thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before

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

She’d search for a trace and then track it back to whomever it was, if there was even a culprit. For all she knew this could have been years of guilt finally catching up to her. It could’ve been manifested in visions of the coven she had killed. Her own family. Though the way these dreams were played out, it was unlikely that it was her. The locations ranged from local to places she had never even seen before. Only two things remained the same: her death and the sight of her ex-coven. With a deep breath, the red head placed her hand on top of the notebook, her eyes closing slowly. “Draíocht a mianach. Aontú le mo anam agus a bheith mianach.” She recited the incantation, the magic flowing from the book into her body. It was as if life was being returned to her once more. Her muscles moved more fluidly. Her shaky knee not even wobbling. The ginger was at

A political system that eliminates privately owned businesses, where there is a sole authoritarian leader whom controls politics and economics; ultimately, leading to corruption. Even a world power like China is capable of falling to this corruption. As shown in “Saboteur” by Ha Jin where the author demonstrates the supposed classless society’s corrupted from its roots; the great nation he once admired showed its true colors with the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

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

In the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu are in authority in France, each struggling to gain absolute power. As a result conflicts emerge that will lead to the progress of France. France was constantly in external conflicts with England and in internal conflicts with the Huguenots that provoked war against the Catholics and even the King, but never against the Cardinal (Dumas, 1). Queen Anne’s romance to the Duke of Buckingham, who at the time was an enemy of France, was not unknown to the Cardinal, like nothing else that escaped him from knowing it. The story’s protagonist, D’Artagnan faces the most dangerous spy of the Cardinal, Lady de Winter. This lady is the one entrusted with the

talked of "seeing" in her dreams much as she saw when she was awake (let it be