Hiroshima By: John Hersey
$1.95
2 word format
document in English
history 1789 to present
school essay
published 23/10/2007
review : Completed
level : General public
requested 1 times
SummaryEver since the very day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM, on August 6th, 1945, a question of “moral or not?” sprang up in people’s minds, even in the minds of the victims. Some people say the US did right in dropping the bomb to force Japan’s surrender, even though it killed thousands of innocent people, while others say this is totally inhumane and should have never been done. This book is apparently written to draw its audience towards the latter of the two opinions. Its gruesome descriptions of the wounded and thorough details of the lives of the six survivors may work wonders with some people, to draw a ton of sympathy. I think the author, John Hersey, is more against than for the Hiroshima bombing, because the book is about the suffering of the people, not the triumph of the US government.
Table of Contents
- The book starts out describing what each of the six survivors were doing that morning.
- Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a 38 year old German priest, was undernourished in wartime Japan, but conducted mass at six thirty that day, and then went back into his home to relax, reading a Jesuit magazine.
- That evening, the city was mostly a flattened out path of dead bodies and heavily wounded men and women.
- Nine days after the bomb was dropped, the Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender on the radio for everyone to hear.
- What really grabbed my attention in the book were the specifically detailed scenes, depicting either gruesome wounds or terrible loss.
Most downloaded documents over 30 days in history 1789 to present Latest in the category history 1789 to present From the same author
knowledge network