After the car-thief goes blind while trying to escape with the first blind man’s stolen car, this police officer finds him and helps guide him home—but he never realizes that the thief committed a crime. Later, the policeman goes blind and gets quarantined along with the group of protagonists, and gets shot and killed—along with eight other men (including the taxi-driver, the policeman who took the girl with the dark glasses home, and the man from the hotel)—by terrified soldiers while he is waiting to retrieve food. Despite having worked for the same government as the soldiers, he quickly becomes subject to its arbitrary and indiscriminate use of force.
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The policeman who takes the car-thief home Character Timeline in Blindness
The timeline below shows where the character The policeman who takes the car-thief home appears in Blindness. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
An unsuspecting police officers takes the car-thief home , and the thief’s wife realizes that her husband has not merely been caught stealing—she...
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Chapter 5
...girl with dark glasses,” “the taxi-driver who took the first blind man to the doctor,” the policeman who took the car-thief home after the thief went blind, and the maid who discovered the girl with the glasses...
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Chapter 6
...do not know. (In fact, they are the man who from the hotel, the taxi-driver, the policeman who took the car-thief home , the policeman who took the girl home, and five people from the other ward.)...
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