Saboteur Short Story Summary

The falsely accused gets revenge.
After reading the story Saboteur, I felt that Mr. Chiu had resentment towards the Chinese government. He had bitterness towards the Chinese government because of being falsely arrested. Mr. Chiu got arrested for questioning the policemen because the policemen, “Threw a bowl of tea in their direction” at the Muji Train Station. The tea ended up “wetting Mr. Chiu and his bride’s sandals”. The policemen, who I think is the protagonist in this story, arrested Mr. Chiu because they said he was a “saboteur for disrupting public”.
Mr. Chiu said that the Chinese government are Saboteurs for falsely arresting him. Mr. Chiu health worsened. Mr. Chiu being ignored when he needed medical attention. Mr. Chiu needed medical attention because he has hepatitis and heart disease. Mr. Chiu was sick in prison for a week without medical attention. Towards the end of his imprisonment he began to have “a fever, shaking with a chill and sweating profusely” from not seeking the medical attention he asked for and was denied.

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Chiu wouldn’t not write a confession/ apology to the Chinese government for the charges they falsely arrested him for. Mr. Chiu was going to fight and not admit to anything until he woke up one morning to a man moaning. He got up and looked to see who was moaning to find out it was a young man who was tied to a tree who was “wriggling and swearing loudly’. Mr. Chiu squinted to get a better look and he realized it was his student, Fenjin, who is a graduate from the Law Department at Harbin University. Fenjin was sent by Mr. Chiu’s bride to get him out of prison. Fenjin was being tortured by the policemen because the policemen said that, “He claimed he was a lawyer or something. An arrogant son of a rabbit’ and because he called the boss a “bandit”. Mr. Chiu, then knew he had to do something to help his student and

himself.
Mr. Chiu decided to agree to sign a false confession that was written by the Interrogation Bureau to help Fenjin and himself. The confession was that he admitted to “disrupting public order” at the Muji train station and that he was wrong when he refused to listen to the policemen, admitting to the crime he was falsely accused of and promising not to do it again. Mr. Chiu still was still hesitant with the voice in his head telling him “lie, lie!”, but Mr. Chiu “Shook his head and forced the voice away” and signed the false confession. Mr. Chiu and Fenjin was set free after he signed the confession.
I felt like this story was irony. By Mr. Chiu being unmediated while being in prison cause him to have a flare up. He knew he could spread his disease. I believe that Mr. Chiu’s hepatitis was used as revenge and as his weapon to get back at the Chinese government. Mr. Chiu stated, “if only I could kill all the bastards”. I think that Mr. Chiu purposely went to back to the tea shop and, “restaurant to restaurant near the police station so spread his hepatitis for revenge. He wanted to get revenge on the policemen and the eye witnesses that he said sabotaged him.
Mr. Chiu defiantly got his revenge by spreading his disease “to over eight hundred people and killing six, two being children”. I think that Mr. Chui's way of revenge was wrong, it’s not right for him to make innocent people suffer. Mr. Chui not only got revenge on the policemen and their families and or just the eye witnesses, instead he took it out on the Muji population.