Techniques Matter
Have you ever wondered how people, that have gone through horrific experiences, felt? Persuading a reader to develop empathy for a specific character, or to be enraged about a specific event, are two very compelling purposes. There are many ways to communicate this purpose.Hiroshima by John Hersey, is about when a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and everything that 6 victims had to go through. The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, is about what a young Japanese American girl had to go through after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. It shows how her life was when she had to leave her home and be taken along with her family to an internment camp. Although both John Hersey and Yoshiko Uchida use compelling personal stories …show more content…
Hersey uses facts and Statistics to show the devastation caused by the bomb. A statistic about the number of deaths and injuries shows that “In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred” (Hersey, pg.24). This statistic supports Hersey’s purpose because Hersey is pointing out that “only six doctors” are able to work. This makes us feel hopeless because we know that these doctors will not be able to save the lives of everybody affected by the atomic bomb. It also makes us realize that we shouldn’t have ever even dropped the bomb and that it was unjustified. Uchida uses a sympathetic mood to show that internment camps caused a lot a pain. When she heard the doorbell, the little girl “thought maybe by some miracle a messenger from the government might be standing there, tall and proper and buttoned into a uniform, come to tell us it was all a terrible mistake, that we wouldn’t have to leave after all...When i opened the door, it wasn’t a messenger from anywhere. It was Mrs. Simpson, our neighbor. She was going to drive us to the Congregational Church, which was the Civil Control Station where all the Japanese of Berkeley were supposed to report.”(Uchida, para.5&7). We feel awful because the little girl is very hopeful and thinks her family “wouldn’t have to leave” their home “after all”. When she realizes that the person at door is there to take them from their home, we feel terrible for the fact that she won’t be able to be happy and safe at home. This goes to show that internment camps were terrible even before its victims got
Have you ever wondered how people, that have gone through horrific experiences, felt? Persuading a reader to develop empathy for a specific character, or to be enraged about a specific event, are two very compelling purposes. There are many ways to communicate this purpose.Hiroshima by John Hersey, is about when a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and everything that 6 victims had to go through. The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, is about what a young Japanese American girl had to go through after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. It shows how her life was when she had to leave her home and be taken along with her family to an internment camp. Although both John Hersey and Yoshiko Uchida use compelling personal stories …show more content…
Hersey uses facts and Statistics to show the devastation caused by the bomb. A statistic about the number of deaths and injuries shows that “In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred” (Hersey, pg.24). This statistic supports Hersey’s purpose because Hersey is pointing out that “only six doctors” are able to work. This makes us feel hopeless because we know that these doctors will not be able to save the lives of everybody affected by the atomic bomb. It also makes us realize that we shouldn’t have ever even dropped the bomb and that it was unjustified. Uchida uses a sympathetic mood to show that internment camps caused a lot a pain. When she heard the doorbell, the little girl “thought maybe by some miracle a messenger from the government might be standing there, tall and proper and buttoned into a uniform, come to tell us it was all a terrible mistake, that we wouldn’t have to leave after all...When i opened the door, it wasn’t a messenger from anywhere. It was Mrs. Simpson, our neighbor. She was going to drive us to the Congregational Church, which was the Civil Control Station where all the Japanese of Berkeley were supposed to report.”(Uchida, para.5&7). We feel awful because the little girl is very hopeful and thinks her family “wouldn’t have to leave” their home “after all”. When she realizes that the person at door is there to take them from their home, we feel terrible for the fact that she won’t be able to be happy and safe at home. This goes to show that internment camps were terrible even before its victims got