Pocket Bomb: A Short Story

When it was time to celebrate, they knocked in the barrel head and threw the fuel on the fire. The flames shot into the sky. The next bucket of “fuel” put the fire out! The fellows in town, angry that the bonfire was a failure, decided to gather up the old-fashioned outhouses for a real blaze!

“Where’s the fire ma’am?” the young man said. “ You get in there and answer that question for yourself, young man. I called you twenty minutes ago. Is our house about to burst into flames while we’re standing out here?”

At the Wabash railroad tracks, as the drifters were coming in, grandma set out food for them. Then the sheriff finds out. She said, that she is a one-woman crime wave, and that she was running an unregistered soup kitchen, but Grandma said “Go look it up O.B., See if there is a law against feeding the hungry, but I have to tell you, you've talked so long, the evidence is all ate up.”

Many people know what it feels like for one action or event to change the whole course of a day, a year, or maybe your whole life. The book The Bomb, by Theodore Taylor, is set on a Pacific Island called Bikini Atoll. During World War II, the Americans took over the atoll from the Japanese, who were in control at the time. The main character, Sorry Rinamu, is grateful for being freed by the Americans. However, after the war, the Americans wanted to test another Atomic Bomb, and they chose to test it for research at Bikini Atoll. The conflict that drives the plot is that Sorry tries to stop the Americans from testing the bomb on his home (person vs society). The two primary ways it generates the plot are when most islanders agree to have their atoll taken away by the Americans and when Sorry gets the radical idea to stop the test from happening from his uncle, Abram Rinamu.

Have you ever been really nervous because if you don't win a race to build the world most dangerous weapon you are in a critical condition of dying? The best part of the book is when Japan refuses to surrender. The only option is to drop atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It was intelligently planned to drop bombs there because it would, of course, scare many. Not only that but Nagasaki and Hiroshima were really unarmed for something like the world's most dangerous weapon in the world (the atomic bomb). In the book The Bomb by, Steve Sheinkin writes about how most countries in the world is in a race to build the first atomic bomb. The U.S. successfully makes the bomb and ends the war. The author Steve Sheinkin fully describes how the conflict

Humans are a unique species because they have possess the ability to reason. Other animal species only have instinct, thus making them less smart. In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, it tells of a hunter named Rainsford who got stranded on Ship-Trap Island. Zaroff hunted Rainsford on the island, but in the end Rainsford killed Zaroff . In “The Most Dangerous Game”, the author uses imagery, setting, and characterization to suggest that instinct is better than reasoning.

A fight is taking place is Israel over whether or not Israelis should be able to lead or even live in what used to be Palestine. The U.N. gave half of Palestine to the Jews and then they started leading and taking more land. Everyone there needs somewhere to live, so who should be able to live there?

pants and threw them a blazing fire…. I ran toward the fire, but the cassettes had already started to melt” (Beah 110). That

Rainsford woke up to the booming sinfony of dozens of hungry hunting hounds and a satisfied look soon materialized on his face. With a prolonged yawn, he rose sleepily from the luxurious bed to find the body of General Zaroff staring blankly at the ceiling. He was the hunter, his hunter, that he had just murdered. Rainsford realised he had finally and truly won the most dangerous game. He remembered what the Cossack had said before their fight, “One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed.” Rainsford silently walked over to the window and gazed down towards the dogs below. As if know what Rainsford was thinking, the hounds barked viciously at him, salivating at their mouths. He ceremoniously picked up the still body of General Zaroff and threw him out the window with a crash! He put a fresh pair of clothes on while listening to the now satisfied canines eat their meal. determined he needed to get

There were many alternatives to using the A-bomb, such as improving conventional bombing and the Naval Blockade, allowing the Japanese to retain their emperor, or even waiting for the soviets to interject. These would all be time consuming and tedious. Time consuming and tedious are not how Truman needed to end the war. The fastest and most effective way to end the war was through nuclear bombs, regardless of lives lost or pain

The author uses a poignant description of a bomb test that happened during her childhood, “we saw it, clearly, this golden-stemmed cloud, the mushroom. The sky seemed to vibrate with an eerie pink glow” (Williams 313). This bomb test, with others plays a central role to story, hence its need to be vividly described by Terry Williams. As the story goes on Williams tells us about her family history and describes the struggles that come with her family lineage, “I held their foreheads as they vomited green-black bile and I shot them with more morphine when the pain became inhuman” (Williams 315). She tells us about this scene to draw emotion from the reader, to get them to invest in her cause which is later revealed as the story goes on.

President Truman stood in the oval office full of many advisors, but was truly alone ready to make the hardest decision, which would change the world forever. Is dropping the bomb the right decision for the president to make?

we warned the Japanese ahead of time to clear the military base at Hiroshima of people,

When my father came home and got down from his buggy and hitched the horse, the fire was still burning in the road beside the house. I went out to meet him. He handed me his shotgun and looked at the fire. "What 's this?" he asked.

Today is a sad day he hoped would never happen, but somehow it did. In a few hours, he and his fellow elders with a grateful nation will lay to rest the reason for the fire he now stands in front of as well as his matriarch who at one time was the love of his life. This fire has never gone out, neither has his love for his Assai, he thinks to himself