Hiroshima John Hersey Analysis

The book Hiroshima by John Hersey describes the life of people after the dropping of the bomb and the different roles they had to fulfill after the bomb in order to survive. The women in the book are forced to do several tasks that were normally male dominated in order to bring home enough money to feed their families. One woman that demonstrates this is is Nakamura-San, who works in a chemical shop wrapping mothballs. This task was difficult for her and all the other workers because “Paragen had a dizzying odor, and at first it made one’s eyes smart” which added to her already difficult situation of being an atomic bomb victim (Hersey 96). Although she often got sick from work, she had no other option other than to work a difficult job as