The book Hiroshima is a nonfiction book that is based on the history of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb during 1945 in Japan. Hiroshima consists of interviews, biographies, and real events. In this book there were 6 survivors in the story. The six survivors were Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, and Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge. Hiroshima is a Pulitzer Prize winner novel in 1946 by John Hersey. In this book he focused on the people that survived as well as their communities. This novelty was written so that Americans could acknowledge what happened to another community and the affects both physically and mentally. After reading this book you may gain emotions that could put
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The story reaches a high level of crisis when the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and extreme levels of radiation were exposed. This was one of the highest level of an accident that could be reached. This bomb unlike most had unlimited exposure and was very deadly. Thank God for the six survivors that were left to tell the story. No one could imagine what this community actually went through. This book was actually very entertaining to me. In different parts of the book I found me “putting myself in those shoes”. When I say “putting myself in those shoes” I mean to say being in the same predicament as the actual characters of the book. I became very emotional in some parts of the book as if I wanted to cry. Family is associated with emotions, loving and caring. Lots of innocent people were hurt and that is something that would naturally take time to heal all wounds. I enjoyed this novel and would read another one by this …show more content…
He was a German priest that lived in Hiroshima. Father Kleinsorge is just what this story needed in a Christian view. Father Kleinsorge was not a citizen of the Japanese culture but was the ideal candidate to bring all people together under terrible tragedies. He becomes amazed with the survival of the Japanese people in their times of suffering. His life does not really change after this event. Dr. Fujii was a married physician that owned his own personal medical clinic in Osaka. Dr. Fujii is a very diverse doctor. He liked to study different languages, play golf, and drink. His life took a negative impact when the bomb strike. He lost everything. His business was destroyed. In 1948 Dr. Fujii rebuilt his medical clinic. He walks away from the bombing in okay conditions, his wounds have healed and now he is able and continue being the physician that he was. His life ends the worst out of all the characters. He actually dies after being in a coma for eleven
The story reaches a high level of crisis when the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and extreme levels of radiation were exposed. This was one of the highest level of an accident that could be reached. This bomb unlike most had unlimited exposure and was very deadly. Thank God for the six survivors that were left to tell the story. No one could imagine what this community actually went through. This book was actually very entertaining to me. In different parts of the book I found me “putting myself in those shoes”. When I say “putting myself in those shoes” I mean to say being in the same predicament as the actual characters of the book. I became very emotional in some parts of the book as if I wanted to cry. Family is associated with emotions, loving and caring. Lots of innocent people were hurt and that is something that would naturally take time to heal all wounds. I enjoyed this novel and would read another one by this …show more content…
He was a German priest that lived in Hiroshima. Father Kleinsorge is just what this story needed in a Christian view. Father Kleinsorge was not a citizen of the Japanese culture but was the ideal candidate to bring all people together under terrible tragedies. He becomes amazed with the survival of the Japanese people in their times of suffering. His life does not really change after this event. Dr. Fujii was a married physician that owned his own personal medical clinic in Osaka. Dr. Fujii is a very diverse doctor. He liked to study different languages, play golf, and drink. His life took a negative impact when the bomb strike. He lost everything. His business was destroyed. In 1948 Dr. Fujii rebuilt his medical clinic. He walks away from the bombing in okay conditions, his wounds have healed and now he is able and continue being the physician that he was. His life ends the worst out of all the characters. He actually dies after being in a coma for eleven