Fruit preserve
Wanton, lustful
Models, sculptures
Religion before Christianity
Leaders of Celtic culture
Praise, glorify
Imperfectly formed
Unstoppable, incessant
Outrageous, horrifying
Detrimental, hurtful
Coarse, sinful, perverted
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Jim, the main character and narrator of the novel, is a young boy whose reports of the war are relatively untainted by adult propaganda or nationalistic inclinations. He recounts the apparent silliness of each aggressor side: he reports the...
The story is set in Shanghai around WW2. Shanghai is a bussy city with its own culture and attitudes.
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I'm not sure what you mean by personal management skills. For a boy, Jim is pretty impressive. He is a British schoolboy and the adolescent protagonist of Empire of the Sun. He is extremely fond of airplanes, and eventually becomes particularly...
