Summer Assignment Guided Questions: Hiroshima By John Hersey
Wiktor Slezak
9/8/17
Summer Assignment Guided Questions
Chapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash
1. The book “Hiroshima” by John Hersey was written in the year 1946.
2. The style that John Hersey used to write the book “Hiroshima” is New Journalism. John Hersey wrote in this style because he wanted to draw pictures in the readers minds to make them feel the things that they were reading.
3. Mr. B was the name that was given to the planes that were used to bomb Hiroshima. These plane’s technical names were B-29, but that was the name that they were given in the book. I think we give human names to inanimate objects because when there is a name given to an object, it is easier to remember the object by that name.
4. Chapter 1 – Character Chart
Miss …show more content…
Fujii He was still injured, but made it to his friends house, that was outside of Hiroshima.
Dr. Sasaki Works at the Red Cross Hospital, and later on goes to his mothers house to make sure she is ok.
Mrs. Nakamura She gets told the information that her family is dead.
2. A young naval, officer announces to the people at the park, that there is hope, and that there will be a naval hospital ship that will come and pick up all of them, to get the care that they all need.
3. The title to chapter 3 has significance. For example the name of chapter 3 is significant because it gives the people of Hiroshima hope that they will live after all, and they do not have to worry about dying at the age that they are.
4. In the book “Hiroshima” Mr. Fukai said before the bombing of Hiroshima, that Japan was coming to an end, and he wanted to go with it.
5. Mr. Tanimoto described the surrender as helpful because that means that the US would not drop anymore bombs.
6. The Doctor was not fazed by the deaths of so many people because there were so many people that already died from the bomb that the doctors are used to everything.
Chapter 4 – “Panic Grass and …show more content…
There were many symptoms to radiation sickness. For example loosing your hair, being extremely tired, and unable to hold yourself up while walking.
3. People who found out that they had radiation disease, they were baffled, and scared.
4. Some of the stages that came with radiation poisoning, were vomiting, nausea, anorexia,and diarrhea.
5. The views on the bomb, were that it was not the right thing to do, because it killed a lot of people and they had to suffer much more then others, in some cases people were suffering from the radiation, and also people were dying from the fires that were caused by the bomb
6. Father Kleinsorge ministered to people by building a three story mission home.
7. Miss Sasaki’s fiancé was very depressed because he did not want to see the love of his life in the state that she was, and with that reason he was depressed
8. The title of this chapter is significant because it talks about the diseases that were introduced from the bomb
Chapter 5 – “The Aftermath”
1. This chapter is organized differently, because it is in the future, and covers what happens next, and not what happened in order.
2. Mrs. Nakamura’s struggle was that she was not able to get hired for a job because of the disease’s and problems that she faced from when the bomb was
9/8/17
Summer Assignment Guided Questions
Chapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash
1. The book “Hiroshima” by John Hersey was written in the year 1946.
2. The style that John Hersey used to write the book “Hiroshima” is New Journalism. John Hersey wrote in this style because he wanted to draw pictures in the readers minds to make them feel the things that they were reading.
3. Mr. B was the name that was given to the planes that were used to bomb Hiroshima. These plane’s technical names were B-29, but that was the name that they were given in the book. I think we give human names to inanimate objects because when there is a name given to an object, it is easier to remember the object by that name.
4. Chapter 1 – Character Chart
Miss …show more content…
Fujii He was still injured, but made it to his friends house, that was outside of Hiroshima.
Dr. Sasaki Works at the Red Cross Hospital, and later on goes to his mothers house to make sure she is ok.
Mrs. Nakamura She gets told the information that her family is dead.
2. A young naval, officer announces to the people at the park, that there is hope, and that there will be a naval hospital ship that will come and pick up all of them, to get the care that they all need.
3. The title to chapter 3 has significance. For example the name of chapter 3 is significant because it gives the people of Hiroshima hope that they will live after all, and they do not have to worry about dying at the age that they are.
4. In the book “Hiroshima” Mr. Fukai said before the bombing of Hiroshima, that Japan was coming to an end, and he wanted to go with it.
5. Mr. Tanimoto described the surrender as helpful because that means that the US would not drop anymore bombs.
6. The Doctor was not fazed by the deaths of so many people because there were so many people that already died from the bomb that the doctors are used to everything.
Chapter 4 – “Panic Grass and …show more content…
There were many symptoms to radiation sickness. For example loosing your hair, being extremely tired, and unable to hold yourself up while walking.
3. People who found out that they had radiation disease, they were baffled, and scared.
4. Some of the stages that came with radiation poisoning, were vomiting, nausea, anorexia,and diarrhea.
5. The views on the bomb, were that it was not the right thing to do, because it killed a lot of people and they had to suffer much more then others, in some cases people were suffering from the radiation, and also people were dying from the fires that were caused by the bomb
6. Father Kleinsorge ministered to people by building a three story mission home.
7. Miss Sasaki’s fiancé was very depressed because he did not want to see the love of his life in the state that she was, and with that reason he was depressed
8. The title of this chapter is significant because it talks about the diseases that were introduced from the bomb
Chapter 5 – “The Aftermath”
1. This chapter is organized differently, because it is in the future, and covers what happens next, and not what happened in order.
2. Mrs. Nakamura’s struggle was that she was not able to get hired for a job because of the disease’s and problems that she faced from when the bomb was