After reading John Hersey’s book, Hiroshima, I feel very sympathetic towards the innocent citizens of that city in the 1940s. And it is the humanity’s most heinous crime, in my opinion. The behavior of six survivors in the atomic disaster is worthy of admiration in such an emergency. Among them there is one person who gives me a strong impression ——she is Mrs. Nakamura——a mother with three young children: a ten-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and a five-year-old girl. Her excellent virtue and qualities are the typical symbols of tender Japanese women in that contemporary society, which are also the spiritual wealth for us to learn from forever. Firstly, I amaze at Mrs. Nakamura’s courage and living belief of confronting the pain and misery continuous wars and the atomic bombardment brought to her. As we all know, her husband killed in the cruel battle of Singapore, the war made her become a …show more content…
For example, in Chapter 3 of this book, I was deeply moved by a plot, Mrs. Nakamoto, whose daughter was cut badly, asked Mrs. Nakamura for some bandage. Without considering her own safety, she crawled into the ruins of her house and pulled out white cloth for Mrs. Nakamoto. What’s more important, thanks to her sensible judgment and courageous choice, three children were rescued from the ruins in time because she made a choice during the process of the most important rescued action. That is to save another one child who was in more terrible situation instead of saving her youngest child firstly. This brave action rescued all of the three children. Last but not least, she was very loyal to her country. Although she lost her husband and sacrificed the happy family to the safety of the country, she still loved her motherland. Even after the war was over, she just gave up the thought that Japan still had a chance to win the