Hiroshima By John Hersey

     The book, Hiroshima, is the story of six individuals who experienced the true effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Miss Toshinki Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works factory, just sat down in the plant office and was turning to converse with the girl at the next desk when the bomb exploded. Dr. Masakazu Fujii, a physician, was relaxing on his porch, which overlooked the Kyo River, where he was reading the morning periodical when the shell detonated. Before the eruption, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was observing her neighbor destruct his house as part of a fire lane in preparation of an American attack. Previous to the attack, Father

The section on page 87 describes the state at which the six survivors were a year after the bombing summed up the effects which occurred from the first four chapters of the book. The section further reinforces the fact that although these six people were the luckiest out of the many at Hiroshima, they still suffer life changing effects of the atomic bomb.

Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge’s journey in the book Hiroshima was extremely exciting and touched me personally. His acts of heroism even in bad conditions and constant xenophobia by the locals show how he was truly selfless. Even though he was brave and a hero his journey did not have that much of an effect on my views on the use of atomic bombs in Japan in World War II.

While looking for a boat to carry the severely injured across the river, Mr Tanimoto “… Found a good-sized pleasure punt drawn up on the bank… five dead men, nearly naked, badly burned…” (Hersey, 37) near it, he “… lifted the men away from the boat… he experienced such horror at disturbing the dead…” (Hersey, 37). On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to end the war between them. Hiroshima, by John Hersey is a book about six survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. The six survivors tell their stories of where they were before the bomb was dropped, what they did after the bomb was dropped, and what their life was like years after the bomb. The book also

Human life is precious in the sense that it is all about survival. There are qualities found in humans that make survival possible. In the book Hiroshima, by John Hersey, readers experience the core of humanity found in the six survivors during the days, months, and years following the atomic bomb. Through inspiration, perseverance, and a sense of community, the Japanese people demonstrated the strength of the human spirit.

Angelina Jolie said, “Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to windows, without it, there is no way of life.” On August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a small city whose death toll rises to 90,000-166,000. On August 9th, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, 60,000–80,000 . In total, 15 million people lost their lives during the duration of the Second World War. In John Hersey's book, Hiroshima, he provides a detailed account of six people and how the bombing of Hiroshima affected their lives. John Heresy felt it was important to focus his story on six individuals to create a remembrance that war affects more

Toshiko Saeki who, at the time of the bombing, was with her children at her

Sometimes you will be part of a horrible disaster, it takes the brave to go find something positive from something dreadful. The novel, Hiroshima by John Hersey, shows us that people can take something good from something bad. Even though the bombing was atrocious we can learn to be hopeful through survivors like Mr. Tanimoto.

sometimes in life, we find ourselves in dramatic events. Some extraordinary, some not. In Hiroshima, an atomic bomb was dropped, causing devastating affects. In John Hersey's Hiroshima (a nonfictional book), his book put you in a perspective that bombing Hiroshima was an act of inhumanity, which I agree but if there's no making peace, what are we going to do. He never put the reader in the perspective of the Americans. John is able to capture the events that occurred after the bombing by recapping the suffering of the people. This took place in Hiroshima August 6, 1945.

On August 6, 1945, the tragedy struck Hiroshima, Japan. At exactly 8:15 a.m. an atomic bomb had been dropped and ruined the lives of millions. In a book called, “Hiroshima”, written by John Hersey. Mr. Hersey was born on June 17, 1914 in Tientsin, China. He was a prize-winning journalist and writer. Keep in mind one of the earliest practitioners of the New Journalism, in which storytelling methods of fiction are immuned to realist reportage. He won three awards, The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. The three main reasons that the United States bombed Hiroshima was because the Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base, the U.S. wanted to end World War II, so by dropping the

Hiroshima by John Hersey was written to give insight into the lives of survivors on that horrific day during August in 1945. Hersey informed me of the happenings surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb. The book both shocked and informed me with its vivid details and accuracy.

The stories and events that unfold in John Hersey’s, Hiroshima, have certainly been eye-openers for me. As a child in middle school and high school I, we have all heard of the atomic bomb and of course of Hiroshima, but never in as much detail or on such a personal level as these stories. Not even in chemistry or physics class, where I learned some of the specifics as to how the bomb works, had I known of the destructive force of the bomb or it’s gruesome effects on human beings. As I mentioned before, this book was quite an eye-opener for me because it has taught me just how deadly nuclear weapons can be not only on material properties, but on human beings, and why nuclear weapons must never again be used is such a way.

Born on June 17, 1914 in China, particularly in Tientsin, the author of Hiroshima John Richard was compassionate Journalist. John Richard Hersey parent was American missionaries Roscoe M. and Grace Hersey. He grew up in China, and this is why he spoke Chinese fluently. John Hersey favorite time was exercised his imagination with reading and writing. Hersey attended the American School. He also attended British Grammar School. Hersey graduated in literature at Cambridge University due to the fact that he moved to the United States of America with his families at the age ten. He also worked at Yale University and Cambridge University as Waiter and Librarian. John Hersey was a journalist who covered the conflict in Europe and Asia during World War II. Passionate and hard worker, Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize of American writer and he was considered one of the New Journalism. In New Journalism, storytelling article of the novel was typically nonfiction reportage. This is obviously the reason why John Hersey was interested in the subject of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan because John speaking depicts real historical figures by using the story technique of nonfiction. Moreover, the purpose of writing Hiroshima was to inform human about the incredible destructive power of atomic bomb on human beings (1). Another purpose of John Hersey of writing Hiroshima was to show that there was no political or national consolidated reaction to the bombing of Hiroshima. In

"I had the feeling that all the human beings on the face of the earth had been killed off, and only the five of us (his family) were left behind in an uncanny world of the dead" (“Bombing”). This was the account of a little boy in fifth grade who had survived the tragedy of Hiroshima in 1945. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombings of Japanese cities by the United States during World War II. Of the thousands of people who died, the horrific tellings of what they saw and what happened to them is a blemish on history. Without a doubt, these actions changed the perspective on war, as this was the only time atomic weapons have ever been used. The events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only altered history, but had a devastating and influential

A lot of the people of Hiroshima were unable to survive the bomb. Many died on impact but some burned in the fire or they were suffocated by the falling buildings and debris. The ones who survived were left with not only physical damage, but also mental and emotional damage because of the tragic event that they went through and because they also had to watch many of their families and friends die and they were unable to save them. Tragically, many of the people’s lives were torn apart on that horrible day and some weren’t able to say good bye to their friends and their loved ones that were killed by the