The short story “Saboteur” was written by Ha Jin. This story is told by third persons’ point of view. It takes place in the 1960’s at a train station and at a jail in Muji. The Characters are Mr.Chiu who is treated unfairly by two police men. Fenjin is a student who had graduated from the Law Department at Harbin University who comes to help Mr. Chiu. Mr. Chiu’s wife, who is in the beginning of the story. Finally the chief of the bureau who is mean to Mr. Chiu.
The story begins at a train station with Mr. Chiu and his wife. They were going home from there honeymoon and were eating in front on the train station. There were two police officers who were eating by them and one of them spilt their tea on they’re feet. Mr. Chiu began to argue as into why they did
that and they arrested him and took him down to the station. He told his wife to send someone to help him out if he doesn’t come home the next day. Well when he went to the police station they had him interrogated by the chief of police. The chief police did not believe what Mr. Chui told him that his officers did. The chief of police told him to admit to his crime of disturbing the peace and they would let him out. But he said he wasn’t gonna do it so they but him in a cell.
When he was in his cell he began to feel sick. He has acute hepatitis and he had no medicine and was afraid of suffering from a relapse. He told the guards that were there and they simply said he would have to wait until Monday because the person that can let him out does not work on weekends which is the c
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