Journal 3

Choose any ONE element of the stories to compare and contrast between The Interview by Gopal Baratham and Empire of the Sun.

In between these two stories, both are quite same. It is because from the story background, they are being attacked by Japanese and they have to follow Japanese rules and it is quite strict. They have to survive to live under the Japanese.

In contrast, in The Interview, it is the story of a man named Brigadier Mason who has to survive and has to follow the Japanese rules. He knows everything about everything that has happened at that moment. However, in the story of Empire of the Sun it’s all about a boy who desperate from his family and he did not know what has happened on that time. He had to survive by his own feet without his parents around with him.