Journal 2: Reflection on war in reference to The Interview by Gopal Baratham

After reading the story entitle interview, my perception regarding war is really changing and I get more information. From my opinion, war does not only give us the bad implication but also the good ones. It is also the same for the story empire of the sun. In the interview, Brigadier Mason is one of the prisoners and lives in the prison for a period of time. Based from this, we can see that there are the differences in the place where they need to stay. Another one is in the interview; there is another one which is the method of torture. From the story interview there is stated the way they torture the prisoner.

Journal 1: Reflection on the issue of pretending in Bugis by Alfian Sa’at

I have read a short story entitle Bugis written by Alfian Sa’at. My reflection regarding the issue of pretending n this story is Salmah. The reason why I said Salmah was pretending in this story is Salmah was pretending to be a good person. It can be prove when Salmah act like a good girlby wearing tudung, but then, she will holding hand with her boyfriend, Sazali. Besides, in my point of view, not only Salmah was pretending in this story. Bugis Street and Bangladeshi man also pretending in this story.