[
 {
  "chunk": 100,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator introduces a brilliant young civil servant who has brought out a fashionable godless creed, one tenet of which is that obeying an order is sinful.",
  "predicament": "A brilliant newcomer arrives full of borrowed theories, including the notion that obeying an order is worse than giving one."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 101,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "The narrator argues that where every man has someone set over him, a creed denying anyone at the head of affairs cannot survive.",
  "predicament": "In a place built on strict hierarchy, a newcomer's theory that nobody stands above anyone is taken as an attack on the whole order."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 102,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "He preaches his creed at the club until his seniors throw cushions and nicknames at him; his superior calls him an idiot, though his work would have carried him far.",
  "predicament": "A clever junior keeps lecturing his elders on his opinions, and they try to mock and shout him into silence."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 103,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "He cannot take an order without improving on it, overworks in the heat, frets over rebukes, and ignores the doctor; one evening he mocks a man for giving thanks for rain.",
  "predicament": "A junior works himself far past his strength, fretting over every rebuke, and ignores every warning that he is heading for collapse."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 104,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "Mid-lecture his words turn to gibberish and he is struck dumb as the storm breaks; the doctor diagnoses aphasia from overwork.",
  "predicament": "In the middle of lecturing everyone around him, an overworked young man suddenly loses the power of speech in front of them all."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 105,
  "story": 12,
  "summary": "His speech returns in two days, but he is cowed, cannot trust his own mind, and goes on three months' leave in fear.",
  "predicament": "After a breakdown he cannot explain, a proud young man is humbled, frightened and sent away for months to rest."
 }
]