As the story says that the white man named Tom was very young nearly seventeen years of age and he was admitted into the army at this young age when he steps inside the doctor’s house and the treatment which he gets from them makes him feel affectionated towards them. The things like caring attitude which was lacking in his life were being fulfilled by the Sadao’s family reluctated the soldier to leave the shelter of the doctor’s home even when he knew he couldn’t stay there without risk to the doctor and himself.