hiroshima by john hersy

Many surviving doctors decided that even though they were wounded they would help the more needy in the time of a crisis. The doctors began to pick up badly wounded patients and bring them all to one area and take care of them. They were also able to provide them with food and water in the time of need. Over a hundred thousand helpless citizens died instantly from the dropping of the bomb.

John Hersey’s novel Hiroshima talks about six survivors’ stories of the dropping of the atomic and how they dealt with it. One might consider these people lucky for survi

ving the attack, but they became faced with many problems, physically and mentally. Many began showing symptoms of diseases while others even began to convince themselves that it was their fate to suffer. On the day of the bombing, August 6th 1945 these people carried on with their daily routine. It was 8:15AM when the bomb was dropped.

Father Kleinsorge loved Japan so much that he registered himself as a Japanese citizen, under the name Father Makoto Takakura and joined a Misasa congregation. A tragic fall in the winter caused him to fracture his vertebrae and have him rely on his bed for the rest of his life. He later fell into a coma and died.

Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was watching one of her neighbors’ tear down their house from her kitchen window when she saw the flash of light. The dropping of the bomb caused her house to collapse burying her and her three children under wood. Once she dug her way out she helped all her children to safety. They traveled to Asano Park where all of her children became ill. They were vomiting, but this wasn’t strange because many people in Asano Park were also vomiting from the radiation.

Dr. Masakazu Fujii was a physician who was on the porch of his hospital reading the daily newspaper when the bomb hit. With a flash of light he flew into the river with the hospital building. Dr. Fujii was being tightly held down in the water by two pieces of timber. An hour later he freed himself from the wood in fear of being drowned by the rise of water. Once he emerged from the water his cuts became visible because of the blood dripping down his body.

Years later, provided by Father Kleinsorge, Miss Sasaki found faith in the Catholic Church and began to live a new lifestyle. Miss Sasaki was greatly influenced by the Catholic faith that she became baptized. During this time her leg was still troubling her and she had to go for orthopedic surgery. She underwent three major surgeries and stayed in the hospital for fourteen months. After the surgery she took Father Kleinsorgeâ

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