Term Papers on Hiroshima

Term Paper Title	Hiroshima
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.54

Hiroshima

John Hersey's Hiroshima is a factual account about the day the United States
government dropped the first atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.  John
interviewed six survivors and reported their stories in a factual but
interesting fashion.  He gives a brief description of each person and tells
of his or her daily activities both before and after the explosion.  Hersey's
descriptions of people and events give the reader a feeling of actually being
at the scene.  He intensifies each character's need to survive.  The sense of
survival is deeply rooted in the hearts of most people.

One of the survivors ("hibakusha" as they were known), Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura,
is described as "…a tailor's widow, [who] stood by the window of her kitchen,
watching a neighbor tearing down his house because it lay in the path of an
air-raid-defense fire lane"(1).  I was very impressed by Mrs. Nakamura and
her determination to survive and to help her children survive.  After the
bomb exploded she found herself being thrown into the next room and buried
under debris; but the cries of her youngest child Myeko made her break free
to rescue her children.  After struggling through debris and making a path,
she found all three of her children and took them outside.  However, they had
nothing on but underwear.  Even though it was summer she feared that the
children might catch cold.  She went back into the house and retrieved
clothing and, oddly enough, overcoats.  She also found her only means of
income, a sewing machine, which she threw into a water tank.  Mrs. Nakamura's
sense of survival saved her life and the lives of her three children.  Even
though her rationality was blurred at times, such as getting overcoats for
the children in the middle of summer and throwing her sewing machine into the
water tank, her de...

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