Non Fiction And Non-Fiction: Miss Toshinki

Jenna Lea

Mr. Green

English

March 15, 2018

Hiroshima, John Hersey, 1985, Non-Fiction

Characters- Miss. Toshinki Sakaki is a twenty year old clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin works. She works very hard to provide for her family. She was affected by the bomb quite a bit. She blast sent her flying into a bookcase which fell on top of her, crushing her leg. She was given no medical treatment for her leg, which was badly fractured and disgustingly infected. She was left very crippled, so young, for the rest of her life. Her fiance leaves her after seeing how much it was going to take to care for Toshinki. Father Kleinsorge, a fellow bomb victim, wants Toshinki to convert her religion into Christianity and become a nun. She

He does this until he falls ill with radiation sickness and is left very weak and tired. This caused him to need lengthy hospital stays. The bomb didn’t affect Father Wilhelm too much because he was already physically a bit weak from the wartime diet. He decided to become a Japanese citizen and changed his name to Father Makoto Takakura. This change pleasantly surprised the Japanese because they originally saw him as a threat.

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. He spends most of his time removing keloids which are red, rubbery scars that cover very severe burns, only to find out that his work was causing much more harm than good. Further into the book, Dr. Sasaki moves out of Hiroshima to open up his own private

Dr. Sasaki eventually leaves the Red Cross Hospital and starts a successful private clinic in Mukaihara. During a medical examination years later, doctors discover a mass on his lung, leading to him having to get that lung removed. He recovers from all of that and, as a result of that experience and then the death of his wife, he pushes himself even more to better help his patients. Father Kleinsorge does very well career-wise in the years that followed the bomb, but his health continues to be a little finicky. He is thrilled when the opportunity to become a Japanese citizen presents itself, and he changes his name to Father Makoto Takakura. Along the way, he gains a loyal friend, Satsue Yoshiki, who is like a mother to him. She is with him when he finally passes away after numerous health problems. Mrs. Nakamura struggles with health problems and money for a long time, but eventually she finds a good job and receives government health benefits specifically for those affected badly by the bomb. She ends up retiring in comfort and enjoying life. Miss Sasaki ultimately ends up doing really well, despite several challenges such as having to deal with her siblings after her parents’ death and the fact that her fiance left her because he didn’t want to take up the responsibility of her health problems. She ends up entering the convent and