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Rain of Ruin and Hiroshima

            In the New York Times there was a article "First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile Is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a Rain of Ruin"" by author Sidney Shalett that is closely related to the book "Hiroshima" by John Hersey. There are a few comparisons and contrasts between the book and the article. One comparison noticed was that both of the stories show that it was a devastating event yet there was good that came from the destruction brought by the events on that day. Another comparison was in both stories they talk about how big the explosives were. Some contrasts noticed was that the article was very factual and didn't really tell of ones emotions to the bombing and the book was about six citizens who experienced and survived the bombing. There was also one more contrast and that one is that in the article it seems like they made the warnings clear but in the book it seems like they were almost being toyed with.
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             Starting off with the first similarity is that in the article and in the book, good actually came of the bombing even though it was disastrous. Most of the Japanese saw it as a horrible event with 200,000 people dead, but they never saw the whole outcome. The good for the Japanese came as they surrendered without loosing all of their pride, also one small plus is they've gotten better land "was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green". The Americans found their good from this by almost the same way as the Japanese. They got it from winning/ending the war and also they were very excited about being able to control and use the atoms (quote).
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             Also another comparison that involves both stories is that they both talk about how big the explosion was. Maybe not in the same sense but both descriptions of the bomb makes it seem unimaginable. The way they describe it in the book is not by size but as in destruction how it put the whole city in flames and how it kept expanding and traveling.


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