Analyse “Escape from Java” as a father-son narrative.

Analyse “Escape from Java” as a father-son narrative.

Though Ruskin Bond is purely into writing stories for children, Escape from Java is a fantastic war fiction, and for maintaining a sense of innocent childhood he has kept the story revolving around a nine-year- old boy, who lives in Java, one of the islands in Batavia, with his father, who is there for a business deal. They are English, and Dutch are the rulers of this island. And for locals, every white person is English for them, little do with their actual origins.

The story is staged against the WWII, especially when the power of Japan and its allies were increasing. With Singapore fallen to Japanese, positive rumours are that soon Java will be in the grip of Japan because Dutch is not as strong as the British to resist the mighty Japanese. All outsiders are busy escaping Java; no one is interested in saving it from Japanese. Soon Japanese begins bombing the islands as well, Java being no exception. Initially, the bombing was limited till dockyard region but soon the city parts begin receiving their share. Because of lack of trenches, people hide under the beds and tables during the air raids. Sono fears if Japanese captured the island, they will put civil folks for building the railways under perilous circumstances. And the narrator is willing to work as a railway worker.

The narrator and his friend, Sono, fly kites to pass their time but as Japan’s approach tightens they are forced to remain at home. ................

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