"War violates every right of a child -- the right to life, the right to be with family and community, the right to health, the right to development of personality and the right to be nurtured and protected." - Graça Machel, Expert to the Secretary General of the United Nations Empire of the Sun is a novel based on the events that JG Ballard witnessed during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in WWII. The …showed first 75 words of 1438 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1438 total…psychological profile - identity of who he was before and what he had become after the war; an individual's ability to adapt to war. Our identities are based on our survival levels - if our basic survival needs are threatened, we change to increase our survival rate, and vice versa. The cruelest part of war is not the number of casualties or deaths, but the twisted effect on the surviving's identities and their shadowed future.