The book Hiroshima was written by John Hersey and shows what happened to the different social classes after the bomb was dropped. For the majority of the population who were in the lower or middle class families greatly suffered after the bomb. These people lost everything to the bomb and could not do anything and had nowhere to go because all of the buildings in the area were destroyed. That was not even the worst of the lower/middle classes issues, they all suffered from radiation sickness and did not have enough money for medical treatment. They had to acquire low paying dangerous factory jobs to slowly build their lives back together. These people could not afford to build homes so “Many had built crude wooden huts, having scavenged fallen
