A Sense Of Tragedy: Hiroshima By Heresey

Everyone seems to be seeking closure about something. After any type of tragedy the first thing people will seek is how to become at peace with what has happened to them and how their lives have changed. But closure is not something that is given, it is something that one must fight for. It is something that is only found amongst those who have the courage to move forward and somehow find the light in every day, amidst the darkness that surrounds them. The only people who truly have a sense of closure are the people who have a sense of courage and a sense of strength. Heresey appropriately concludes his novel, Hiroshima, by disclosing how some of his subjects’ sense of courage and strength has enabled them to grow amidst such incredible adversity, how others have found themselves stuck in the eternal suffering of their past and finally, by analyzing the sense of personal closure amongst his subjects. One of the major components that lead me to feel as though the novel was appropriately concluded was Heresey’s follow-ups with many of his subjects years after the dropping of the atomic bomb. These follow-ups revealed certain characters, specifically Nakamura, Tanimoto, Dr. Sasaki, Father Kleinsorge and Sasaki, to have grown immensely in resilience, wisdom and selflessness. …show more content…
Fuiji refused to address his at all, and in doing so condemned himself to a life of pseudo-happiness. Although Dr. Fuiji does display himself as an extremely amicable and light-hearted person it seems to me that he did maintained this facade in an attempt to convince himself that he was not hurting as much as he truly was. This becomes clearer when Dr. Fuiji almost dies from almost gassing himself to death in his bedroom while on a trip to New York (it is uncertain whether this was accidental or purposeful but I personally assume it was the