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Analysis Of The Bombing Of Hiroshima, By John Hersey

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Being a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima is not something that every person can say. Magnificently, six people in the book Hiroshima, by John Hersey, managed to survive the bombing. Giving readers many details about the moments of the bombing, these characters were very brave and truly astonishing. Explaining how the who was the closest, the noiseless flash, and the ruins afterward, were all told by these people, and the extreme circumstances of the aftermath that they had to push through in order to survive. The survivors of the book were all in a small distance from the blast and they explain the events that happen following the bomb explosion. Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Makoto Takakura, and Dr. Terufumi Sasaki were the survivors. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was the closest to the bombing raising three children. The furthest away was Kiyoshi Tanimoto, and was a pastor at a church. Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, was very young and was a doctor to help provide better healthcare for the less fortunate. Dr. Fujii had his own small hospital with decent room and nicer rooms. Makoto Takakura was a German priest and was not popular among the Japanese during World War II. Toshiko Sasaki was also very young and a …show more content…

Tanimoto was taking brace by his wall and felt the small pieces of wood pelt his skin and his home caving in. Toshiko was working when a flash filled the office to wear you couldn't see because it was so bright. Fujii saw the light then, soon afterward, fell into water. He explains it by the light being a ¨brilliant yellow¨ before he fell in. Nakamura was tending to her children when she was abruptly knocked down and covered in dirt and debris. She explains it by, ¨whiter than any white¨, she said seen before, almost unreal. Dr. Sasaki was the only unhurt doctor in his building and saw the light also which soon after that, his glasses were swooped

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In “ Before Hiroshima : The Path Towards total War ; Ronald Takaki discusses the various reasons on why America decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan and why they felt like dropping bombs were better than having to invade. During the time of World War 2, as the bombs were being dropped on different parts on the country, they were not only killing the men that were fighting in the war, but also killing innocent civilians. General Hap Arnold explaines his point of view on why he thinks using atomic bombing in war should be used only in the proper way. He states in the book that “He did not want to violate the widely held American moral view that war should be fought against soldiers, not civilians”. (Pg.26)

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One of these people was 16 year old Dennis Robertson, who was hit in the head with a brick in a riot after the bombing. This was a very sad time for all of the families of the girl’s. This day was especially hard for 12 year old Sarah Collins. She had lost an eye during the explosion.

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This demonstrates how it was mentally scarring for their people to experience. Students were at loss since they were too young to understand what to do in a case like this. The bombing of Nagasaki caused 39,000 deaths and left 25,000 injured. The historical narrative, Hiroshima as Victimization argues that

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Four unlucky girls were killed in the blast. 14-year-old Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. The girls were in the ladies restroom in the basement talking about their first days of the school year when the blast killed them. 10-year-old Sarah Collins was in the basement restroom with the other girls when the bomb went off, but she only lost her right eye. After the bombing, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out to 8,000 people at three of the little girls funerals, while the other girl’s family held a smaller private service.

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Wilfred Burchett, an Australian Journalist visited the once thriving Japanese city of Hiroshima, just one month after the devastating atomic bomb and did not approve of the devastation it caused. The bomb (little boy) was dropped over the city, killing over 70,000 people and injuring the same number. He was the first correspondent to enter Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped. “I was people in who … are dying … from these effects of bombing … They lost their appetites, their hair fell out … their flesh began rotting away from their bones” (Source A.).

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          Document B holds the story of Yoshitaka Kawamoto, and his experience during before, during, and after the bomb had dropped in Hiroshima. Kawamoto was in school when the bomb had dropped, and after the bomb had dropped, he was surrounded bu debris, and searched for someone else who had survived. He eventually found someone else who was alive but in horrible condition, him stating that "his skull was cracked open, his flesh was dangling out from his head" (Document B: Survivor). Kawamoto then left to find water, running past hundreds of dead bodies, and kicking the hands of people trying to grab him. Kawamoto now works as the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

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In addition to the bomb affecting their homes and cities, it affected their physical self as well. Document 9 states, “The three main types of physical effects associated with a nuclear explosion are : blast and shock, thermal radiation, and nuclear radiation; each have the potentiality for causing death and injury to exposed persons … among them, apart from genetic effects, are the formation of cataracts, life shortening, and leukemia.” Many life threatening situations can happen to a person if in contact with a nuclear bomb. Which shows how deadly a nuclear bomb is and how it should not be

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One picture shows a large Japanese arch standing amongst bed frames, wagons, and pieces of wood from burnt trees with the caption, ¨Hardly any buildings were left in Hiroshima after the massive atomic bomb blast.¨ That is one of the less horrifying pictures, as others depict people suffering, with skin melting off of their bodies. A true story from Keiko Murakami was told by Drew Frame in the article, ¨The Effects Of the Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima and Nagasaki¨. Drew Frame described what had happened to Keiko in Hiroshima saying, ¨They got out of the rubble to find her mother,´with my baby sister in her arms... her right eyeball was out and drooped around her breast like a lump of blood. ´….They found other people but ´ Their faces were so damaged by the heat of the blast

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Dr. Terufumi Sasaki- A twenty-five year old doctor at the Red Cross hospital in Hiroshima. He risks many penalties by practicing medicine in the suburbs without a permit. He contributes towards medical advances by examining and treating patients with radiation sickness.

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According to U.S. estimated, 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed by the bomb, 140,000 were injured many more were made homeless as a result of the bomb and some of them were missing. A very dangerous radiation reached over 100,000 kilometers. In the blast, thousands of people died instantly. The city is completely destroyed, there are 90,000 buildings and 60,000 of them were completely destroyed by the explosion. In all, approximately 33% or ⅓ of Hiroshima is completely destroyed.

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