time‚ August 6‚ 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. About a hundred thousand people were killed by the inhumane act of those Americans. John Hersey tells the story of six lucky survivors: Miss Toshinki Sasaki‚ Dr. Masakazu Fuji‚ Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge‚ Dr. Terfumi Sasaki‚ and the Reverend Tanimoto. This book tells about how the lives of these six people changed forever. John Hersey uses the testimony to describe the horrid experiences that people went through. Not
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The book Hiroshima was a great story that was told through a third party perspective in order to explain the horrors of the atomic bomb. A few of the individuals duplicated were the widow Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura and the doctor Terufumi Sasaki. These two had inspirational stories told in this book. Mrs. Nakamura was one of the only characters who took care of a family by herself. One of the only thing she had to go through was a radiation sickness and poverty‚ which was caused because of the war. Dr.
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traces the experiences of six people who survived the atomic blast of August 6‚ 1945 at 8:15 am. The six people vary in age‚ education‚ financial status and employment. Miss Toshiko Sasaki‚ a personnel clerk; Dr. Masakazu Fuji‚ a physician; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ a tailor’s widow with three small children; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge‚ a German missionary priest; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki‚ and the Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto are the six Hersey chose from dozens of people he interviewed. The book opens with what
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Hiroshima has been the only time I am not proud to be an American. Seeing the devastation that was caused by the Country I call home was really hard. Countless lives were destroyed by one act of war. The first character that caught my eye was Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ who was a widow that lived in Hiroshima. She barely escaped that disaster of the explosion that destroyed her home. After the bomb‚ she scrambled to find her three children‚ who were lucky to be alive.
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wood across his chest‚ but his head was above water. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ a tailor’s widow with three young children‚ had spent a hectic night shuttling her family back and forth to evacuation spots because of air raid false alarms. Exhausted‚ the children were still resting when the bomb fell. Mrs. Nakamura‚ however‚ was awakened at seven by another air raid siren. The all-clear signal sounded at eight o’clock and the relieved Mrs. Nakamura began studying her next-door neighbor tear his house down
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six survivors of Hiroshima. In this book‚ John descripies into great detail of what these six people were doing the day of the bombing that ended World War 2 and how they survived the atomic bomb. Miss Toshinki Sasaki‚ Dr. Masakazu Fujii‚ Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura‚ Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge‚ Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto where the six survivors that Mr. Hersey writes about in his story. These six people were among many other survivors. In this book‚ John Hersey adds a new chapter
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bomb survivors and their accounts during and after the bomb. Using the accounts of the survivors’ Hersey is able to extract compassion to the reader. Mrs Hatsuyo Nakamura was a widowed mother of three who suffered great poverty after the bomb; she was left torn and fragile. Suffering from radiation sickness and no means of income‚ Mrs Nakamura never loses hope. In an attempt to overcome her obstacles she worked countless jobs but barely earned enough to suffice. Regardless of how hard the task was
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Dr. Masakazu Fuji‚ Mrs. Hatuyo Nakamura‚ Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge‚ Dr. Terufumi Sasaki‚ and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto‚ and describes the activities they were engaged in minutes before the explosion. None of the six characters were prepared for an attack as extreme as an atomic bomb. When the bomb strikes‚ which was sometimes as close as three quarters of a mile away‚ the six main characters have to witness horrible things. For example‚ Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura has to watch her neighbor tear
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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
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called Hatsuyo Nakamura who was a survivor of the Atom bombs that were dropped on Japan during the war. Her story tells us how hard life had become for the Japanese during and after the war had finished. This shows us that the “enemy” was just as affected by the war as everyone else perhaps they were even worse of then the rest of us. Ms Nakamura was affected by the bomb in a bad way but others would consider her lucky cause she was not mutated from the bomb. It was a struggle for Ms Nakamura to work
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