Part 2, Chapter 20

<p>It is now 1945. <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/empire-of-the-sun/major-character-analysis/#343303">Jim</a> is 14 and has spent over three years at the Lunghua internment camp to the south of Shanghai. The camp is under continual air attack by the United States armed forces, and Jim realizes that the Japanese are losing the war. While Jim is laying pheasant traps on the perimeter of the fence, under the instructions of <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/empire-of-the-sun/major-character-analysis/#343304">Basie</a>, a young Japanese private Jim befriended finds a large turtle nearby. The private lets Jim take the turtle back inside the camp, and Jim impresses the younger boys with it.</p>

Chapter 20 Summary: “Lunghua Camp”

Part 2, Chapter 21

<p><a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/empire-of-the-sun/major-character-analysis/#343303">Jim</a> describes his living arrangements in the camp. He shares a room with a British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, and their six-year-old son, whom they partition off from Jim so that he is living in a cubicle. Despite Mrs. Vincent’s hostility toward him, “like all the men and older boys in G Block, Jim was attracted to Mrs Vincent” (144). Jim also notes how the Japanese had “celebrated” VE day, the day of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender to the allies, by cutting the already inadequate rations in half.</p>

Chapter 21 Summary: “The Cubicle”

Part 2, Chapter 22

Chapter 22 Summary: “The University of Life”

Part 2, Chapter 23

Chapter 23 Summary: “The Air Raid”

Part 2, Chapter 24

Chapter 24 Summary: “The Hospital”

Part 2, Chapter 25

Chapter 25 Summary: “The Cemetery Garden”

Part 2, Chapter 26

Chapter 26 Summary: “The Lunghua Sophomores”

Part 2, Chapter 27

Chapter 27 Summary: “The Execution”

Part 2, Chapter 28

Chapter 28 Summary: “An Escape”

Part 2, Chapter 29

Chapter 29 Summary: “The March to Nantao”

Part 2, Chapter 30

Chapter 30 Summary: “The Olympic Stadium”

Part 2, Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Summary: “The Empire of the Sun”

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