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Hiroshima Dialectical Journal

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Entry 5 7/23/15
The most conflicts that are in the book are after the attack. Before the attack everyone was fine, but after conflicts will arise because people are now having to deal with the effects of the attack. for example :all the injured and hurt , the destruction it caused and just trying to save yourself and survive from the blast. The main conflict in this book is the main characters struggling against the antagonist, which would be the bomb or explosion. The conflict caused everyone's lives to change quickly. they had to move on eventually because they couldn't go back and not have a bomb so they continued with the future and moved on with their lives.

Entry 6 7/27/15 An important main character in this novel called Hiroshima is Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto . He is a methodist pastor who is living in Hiroshima. Mr. Kiyoshi is hardworking and he helped bring many of the people who were dying and were unknown.He helps with bringing them to the city. He later becomes an activist. Another important main character in Hiroshima is -Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura. She is a widow living in Hiroshima. She almost doesn't make it out of the explosion. …show more content…

Stowe is able to tell us what the characters are feeling and thinking and she makes us travels with the characters as they go along with the book. the narrator wants us to see what she sees which the end of slavery. This book isnt made for pleasure i think it's made to help us really know more about slavery and and the narrator wants us to learn. The narrator's tone is serious is serious . she wants us to also learn the misery of being a slave and how terrifying it is to be enslaved. I think the most important themes are slavery and religion. these themes appear most everywhere in this book

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