Saboteur by Ha Jin | Analysis

saboteur by Ha Jin AnalysisReading Saboteur was existingly teetotal for me because I grew up in this class of controlled place, and I could really pertain to these senses that Mr. Chiu had. In Poland, until I was about ten years old we were under(a) the control of communist Russia. I remember that the g all overnment required all(prenominal) somebody to have their permission to reward food. They did not let us use m unrivaledy we had to apply for special vouchers and everybody was allowed the same amount because collectivism philosophy was that every sensation is equal. There were many times that I saw this kind of totalitarian control by the police. For example, if someone say something against the government that they didnt like, they could go to jail. Even worse, if some government official didnt like someone, they would be falsely criminate and sent to jail, as yet though the government officials were the bad guys and the person had done nothing wrong. Ha Jins shor t floor Saboteur is change with ever increasing irony from beginning to dying that finally climaxes in the main character, Mr. Chiu, becoming that which he was falsely accused of being. Ha Jins level of Mr. Chius unfair tab, imprisonment and eventual release in Muji City, China subsequently the Cultural Revolution is filled with irony.The story opens at the end of Mr. Chiu and his wifes honeymoon. Mr. Chiu had suffered from sharp hepatitis and he was feeling like he was recovering but mollify worried about his liver. This is where one of the first ironic events occurs. They were having lunch in the squ are, waiting for the time to catch their train home, when the policeman at the adjoining table threw a bowl of tea on their sandals. Mr. Chiu is obviously upset, and he asks the officers why they threw the tea. The officer tells Mr. Chiu that he is lying, and that he wet his shoes him self. The policemen arrest Mr. Chiu after he asks Why violate the laws you are supposed to execute? (Jin par.15). The young officer wherefore told Mr. Chiu Youre a saboteur, you know that? Youre disrupting the public club (par.17). This situation is very ironic because Mr. Chiu was minding his own business, doing nothing to disrupt the public. The police, who are supposed to keep the order, were the ones disrupting it. Many times, in communist countries, the enforcers of the law and rules end up being the ones who break them the most.After Mr. Chius arrest, he was taken to the question Bureau. He was asked some standard questions and we learned that he as a member of the Communist Party. Then the caput told him Your crime is sabotage, although it hasnt induced practiced consequences yet You have failed to be a model for the masses (par.40). Mr. Chui argued his align of the story trying to convince the chief that it was actually the police officers who were the saboteurs. The otherwise man in the room then showed Mr. Chiu some statements given by eyewitnesses. The s tatements all said that Mr. Chiu had shouted in the square and refused to obey the police. Mr. Chiu was feeling sick. The chief told him that he would have to apologize and write a self criticism. Mr. Chiu told the chief, I wont write a word because Im innocent. (par.51). This whole moving picture is ironic because it is again the police who are saboteurs. They went so far as to conquer false statements to force Mr. Chiu confess to a crime that he did not commit. He refused to do that.Mr. Chiu was feeling very sick. He asks one of the guards to let their leader know of his condition when he is informed that no leader is on duty on the weekend. Mr. Chui resolved himself to take his clutch with ease, and he tried to be restful to not irritate his hepatitis more. When he woke up Monday, he heard moaning. Mr. Chiu looked out of his window, and realized that it was his lawyer handcuffed to a tree in the heat. The lawyer had been sent by his wife to get him out of the jail, and now he w as being tortured for calling the oldtimer a bandit. This is another instance of irony because it shows the upholders of the laws breaking them.Mr. Chiu is taken to the interrogation room again after seeing his lawyer friend get more punishment. He felt helpless, and knew the only way to help was to print a confession for a crime he did not commit. The chief told him he didnt have to write it himself, only sign it. The confession said I myself and responsible for my arrestI have realized the reactionary nature of my crimeshall neer commit that kind of crime again (par.95). Even though he was furious, he signed it to help his friend. Mr. Chiu and the lawyer left the police station, and then they stopped at many tea stands and restaurants. While eating runty bits at each place, he kept saying I craving I could kill all those bastards (par.106). Within a month over eight hundred people got hepatitis and six died. The irony here is that Mr. Chiu is the one who outflank his diseas e, disrupting public order, they crime he was falsely accused of.This story has many wonderful instances of irony, and if we look even closer, we can see even more irony when we tie all of the past events to the ending. Even though Mr. Chiu takes the only revenge he can, becoming what he was falsely accused of by spreading his disease around because he was reacting to the crime against him. The real saboteurs were the police. If the police had not falsely accused Mr. Chiu, they would not have spread hepatitis to their city, disrupting the public. They are the ones who wrote the confession, and those were the crimes they were guilty of.