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While Hana administers the anesthetic to Tom during his surgery, she thinks about the rumors she’d heard regarding the Japanese authorities’ inhumane treatment of their prisoners. She likens the relationship between prisoner and authority figure to that of a wife and her physically abusive husband. In both instances, the prisoner and wife cannot escape and must only endure the treatment they receive to the best of their abilities. Though Hana doesn’t appear to be abused, it seems that this analogy brings Tom’s situation closer to home in that he resembles the poorly treated, helpless women Hana knows in her daily…