Analysis Of Chapter 11: A Narrative Fiction

The day that the bomb was dropped, it was described as a quiet early morning, and the people who had lived through it had described the bomb exploding as a bright flash in the sky. The characters in the story were described as calm and relaxed until the bomb had dropped. After the destruction was over the entire city was in fear of what had happened because they thought it was an everyday drill. The people of Hiroshima didn't know that the sirens were not a drill since they had drills every other

The sound thundered through my ears. The ground shook beneath my feet and it felt like I was floating on it. Then another flash like lightning and that ground-shaking, deafening noise again” As you can probably tell, this is where the village is being bombed.

The author of the book, John Hersey, had a good purpose in telling so many individual anecdotes about the life before the bomb. He focused on expressing the stories of these survivors in a way in which the reader could see it from their point of view. His aim was to demonstrate that each individual was a real human being with real feelings just like us. The author seeks to make sure that readers understand that the bombings happened to people who had a daily life and were astonished by what had happened. Hersey demonstrates that the bombing impacted people who had previously been undergoing a lot in life.

At 9:03 a.m. a massive bomb resting inside a rented Ryder truck destroyed half of the nine story federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. It also claimed the lives of 169 men, women, and children, while injuring hundreds

It’s been 15 years since that day, but the moment still haunts me today. When we found out that a nuclear bomb was going to drop, my family and the rest of the street had no idea what to do. Everything was all over the place, seconds after the explosion happened. Houses were destroyed, cars were flipped and ravaged, and thousands of dead bodies were lying on the streets. Some of them were even our dearest friends.

April 19, 1995 at 8:59 a.m. I sit in traffic after dropping my son Aiden off in daycare at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. This is the only daycare I can find open on a Saturday. A beep and a honk as I try to keep calm. 9:02 a.m. a rumble in the distance as I pause, yet pay no attention to it. 9:27 a.m. as I’m listening to the radio station KKNG - 93.3. “The Alfred P. Murrah Federal building was bombed at exactly 9:02 a.m. today, the death count is unknown now.”, the radio station announces. My mind went into a sudden blur, I screeched out in agony. Suddenly I bust a U-turn in the middle of the road. Horns honking and angry faces while drivers flick me off. I swerve and I bump as I drive recklessly toward the building.

The bomb killed four girls, their names were Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Denise McNair was eleven and the other three girls were fourteen. The girls that died were found in the bathroom or what was the bathroom. There was another girl in the bathroom. She lost her right eye. Her name was Sarah Collins Cox. Cox was there with her friend Addie Mae Collins.

various first person accounts of survivors of the bombing to provide a vivid imagery of the

Eventually, it came down to just one person stranded in the village, and that was me. I had spent every day inside for three months until I had almost gone insane. I had started talking to myself and staring at the fire pit when it wasn’t even lit.

The stake glimmers in the rising light. It’s clean now. I washed it the same time I washed my clothing. The blood didn’t wash off my shirt though. I look at my reflection in the blade. I haven’t seen bruising on my skin in the reflection, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. I finger my neck again. It’s sore to the touch. I couldn’t see my reflection well in the water’s tint, but in the knife’s reflection, I can almost pretend the gold colors are from the metal alone.Last night’s nightmare is still behind my eyes—of the terror of Alexis inside the statue—not dead, but dying of starvation. I shudder. I slide my fingers along the transition from dark brown polished wood to gold. My cheeks flush and my lip curls as I think back to me begging Midas and sobbing. I can’t remember the last time I cried. An intrusive image of my mother’s cross and her shallow grave flash through my mind. I mentally vault away from it.“Chrys?” I almost drop my it at Amaru appearing at my side. I stand and shove the

sickness that would go on to kill 100,000 more people. It is stated that “the bombs did...bring an

In 8/6/1945 Yamaguchi went Hiroshima for work and that day nuclear bomb dropped. The place of Yamaguchi has been 3 km (1.8miles) far away from the center of an explosion, but he got burn the upper half of his body. Next day he leave Hiroshima for escape from hard experience he had. But ironically when Yamaguchi came back home that nagasaki, another nuclear bomb was dropped to Nagasaki. It was 3 day after from first nuclear bomb has dropped to Hiroshima. When Yamaguchi was telling about what had happened in Hiroshima to his boss, then the light that same as Hiroshima fill the room. “I thought the atomic cloud had followed

Now imagine yourself being in one of the following Japanese cities, Hiroshima or Nagasaki. You are having a normal day like always when suddenly you look up at the sky and see an airplane drop tons of papers warning you to get out of your city. The fliers tell you to leave your city because you are about to be bombed by a single bomb which is capable of destroying the entire city. You think it turns out to be just a joke so you do nothing like everyone else. Three days pass and you are still thinking about what the paper said. All the you hear tan unexpected plane, your heart starts pumping faster, then you see the plane release a large object from the sky,

In the warm shelter deep underground, the people heard a deafening noise, a bomb. It had landed directly above the shelter's entrance. Everybody inside wanted

On the day of August 6th, 1945 The United States Of America dropped a bomb on 250,000 Hiroshima Resident later to be known as the atomic bomb . An atomic bomb is a rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei.The main situation of the story is the dropping of the first Atomic bomb .The bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Americans to ultimately end the second world war . The summary of my book is 6 different stories from 6 survivors . The 6 characters are Dr. Terufumi Sasaki , Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura , Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge ,Toshiko Sasaki , and Dr . Masakazu Fiji , and Reverend Mr.Kiyoshi Tanimoto . Dr.Sasaki is a surgeon at the Red Cross in Hiroshima He is the only physician that is not injured after the blast.