Summary Of Hiroshima By John Hersey
Hiroshima
By John Hersey
Title: Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: EFL Club (www.eflclub.com)
Contents
Hiroshima
A Noiseless Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .
The Fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Details Are Being Investigated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Panic Grass and Feverfew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 .
An Eyewitness Account
By Father John A. Siemes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 .
The Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating …show more content…
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died, Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go in-doors, catching one streetcar instead of the next— that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything.
The Reverend Mr. Tanimoto got up at five o’clock that morning. He was alone in the parsonage, be-cause for some time his wife had been commuting with their year-old baby to spend nights with a friend in
Ushida, a suburb to die north. Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B-san, or
Mr. B, as the Japanese, with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B-29; and Mr. Tanimoto, like all his neighbors and friends, …show more content…
Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it travelled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed a sheet of sun. Both he and Mr. Matsuo reacted in terror—and both had time to react (for they were 3,500 yards, or two miles, from the center of the explosion). Mr. Matsuo dashed up the front steps into the house and dived among the bedrolls and buried himself there. Mr. Tanimoto took four or five steps and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden. He bellied up very hard against one of them. As his face was against the stone, he did not see what happened. He felt a sudden pressure, and then splinters and pieces of board and fragments of tile fell on him. He heard no roar. (Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls hearing any noise of the bomb. But a fisherman in his sampan on the
Inland Sea near Tsuzu, the man with whom Mr. Tanimoto’s mother-inlaw and sister-in-law were living, saw the flash and heard a tremendous explosion; he was nearly twenty miles from Hiroshima, but the thunder was greater than when the B-29s hit Iwakuni, only five miles away.)
When he dared, Mr. Tanimoto raised his head and saw that the
By John Hersey
Title: Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: EFL Club (www.eflclub.com)
Contents
Hiroshima
A Noiseless Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 .
The Fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Details Are Being Investigated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Panic Grass and Feverfew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 .
An Eyewitness Account
By Father John A. Siemes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 .
The Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating …show more content…
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died, Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go in-doors, catching one streetcar instead of the next— that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything.
The Reverend Mr. Tanimoto got up at five o’clock that morning. He was alone in the parsonage, be-cause for some time his wife had been commuting with their year-old baby to spend nights with a friend in
Ushida, a suburb to die north. Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B-san, or
Mr. B, as the Japanese, with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B-29; and Mr. Tanimoto, like all his neighbors and friends, …show more content…
Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it travelled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed a sheet of sun. Both he and Mr. Matsuo reacted in terror—and both had time to react (for they were 3,500 yards, or two miles, from the center of the explosion). Mr. Matsuo dashed up the front steps into the house and dived among the bedrolls and buried himself there. Mr. Tanimoto took four or five steps and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden. He bellied up very hard against one of them. As his face was against the stone, he did not see what happened. He felt a sudden pressure, and then splinters and pieces of board and fragments of tile fell on him. He heard no roar. (Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls hearing any noise of the bomb. But a fisherman in his sampan on the
Inland Sea near Tsuzu, the man with whom Mr. Tanimoto’s mother-inlaw and sister-in-law were living, saw the flash and heard a tremendous explosion; he was nearly twenty miles from Hiroshima, but the thunder was greater than when the B-29s hit Iwakuni, only five miles away.)
When he dared, Mr. Tanimoto raised his head and saw that the