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This 5 page paper examines the book Hiroshima by John Hersey. Some quotes are included. No additional sources cited.
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tells what happened on the fateful day characterized by the title. In 1945, a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Hersey explores not what it might be like, but exactly
what it was like by providing information from the people who lived through the attack. Tales are told through the views of several individuals. On the very first page for
example, the tale of one individual is relayed and begins as follows: "...on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko
Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down" (Hersey, 1989, 1). Also on page one, it is revealed that "Dr. Masakazu
Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asabi on the porch of his private hospital" (1989, 1). Clearly, from the beginning, this book humanizes the tragic event by
telling the tale through the eyes of several different individuals. The tale of Reverend Tanimoto is also told. He is a minister whose wife and baby commutes from where he
works (Hersey, 1989). She would spend some nights with friends and when the minister awoke on that fateful morning, his family was not with him. Clearly, form the start of
this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think in terms of numbers of casualties or types of people, but no one
thinks of their individual lives. From the start of the book, the reader is introduced to Toshiko Sasaki and Reverend Tanimoto, two seemingly average and innocent people. Certainly, they did
not deserve what was coming. However, history plays tricks on the mind, and today, while Hiroshima is critically viewed in the west, this was not the case early on.
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