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Hiroshima Literary Analysis

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For my literary essay topic I am writing upon is ‘some critics believe this novel

illustrates the strength of the human spirit, cite two instances from the

story to support this idea and examine their action in light of this claim’.

Human spirit is considered a component of humanity that only human beings are

capable and entitled of feeling. It is a mental feeling of awareness and

understanding. It differs from psyche components such as emotion, personality

and memories that are comprised of ones self. Human spirit in relation to this

novel is going through the actions and events that the characters within the

novel ‘Hiroshima’ had undergone and experienced. Hiroshima suffered a huge

loss to the affects of the Americans releasing the atomic …show more content…

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explosion affect leveled the house destroying it, leaving it too rubble and fallen

pieces from the once seemingly peaceful house. The survival of Mr. Tanimoto

was certainly rare as he managed to withdraw most of the explosion blast by

taking cover within a garden of rocks.

The second individual of the story of Hiroshima was Dr. Terufumi Sasaki who

was a young twenty five year old surgeon at the Red Cross hospital who had just

coincidentally decided to wake up and head to work earlier because he was

having trouble sleeping through the night. This resulted in him catching an

earlier train then he regularly does which lead him further away from the

location of the bombs target destination and before it had even hit Hiroshima. If

he were to arrive to work on his regular train schedule he would have been

instantly killed in the explosion of the atomic bomb that was set. Dr. Terufumi

remained inside the hospital during the time of the atomic bomb, and happened

to be near the edge of an open window, which caused the result of a

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