Book Report Hiroshima
The book “Hiroshima” by John Hersey starts out by introducing the characters in the book with a time for each event happening. On August 6th everyone was doing their regular everyday activities, Mr Tanimoto was helping one of his friends move when the blast hit the city of Hiroshima. A woman by the name of Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was used to the air-raid sirens so when they went off again she let her kids sleep in leaving them alone.
Throughout the book it repeatedly reminds you of the time each events are happening and how far away the citizens are from the blast. When Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura heard the sirens she was watching her neighbor tear down their house for fire lanes, however, he later was killed instantly by the blast. Dr. Fujii ran …show more content…
Nakamura’s hair begins to fall out, and she and her daughter become ill. At the same time, Mr. Tanimoto, weak and feverish, becomes bedridden.Dr. Sasaki notices small hemorrhages all over her bare skin, a mysterious symptom many of his patients are beginning to show. He later discovers that this is the result of her low white-blood cell count,
Hiroshima began to flood every time it rained as nature was trying to destroy what was left In Hiroshima, as Japanese physicists make observations about the blast area, Dr. Sasaki and his colleagues develop new theories about radiation sickness by observing their patients. Miss Sasaki’s infection lingers on eleven weeks after the bomb Hersey lets the image speak for itself: a ten-year-old boy who progresses from eating peanuts in the morning, to seeing “burned and bleeding” people walking around, to meeting a child his own age whose mother is dead.
In 1951, haunted by his awful experiences there, Dr, Sasaki quits the hospital and eventually sets up a private clinic in Mukaihara. Tragedy strikes Dr. Sasaki’s life again, however. In 1963 he nearly dies when an operation to remove one of his lungs goes awry; in 1972, his wife dies of breast cancer. These two experiences drive him to devote his life to his work. He uses the success of his clinic to build bigger and better medical facilities, and forty years after the bomb, we find him working as hard as ever to help
Throughout the book it repeatedly reminds you of the time each events are happening and how far away the citizens are from the blast. When Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura heard the sirens she was watching her neighbor tear down their house for fire lanes, however, he later was killed instantly by the blast. Dr. Fujii ran …show more content…
Nakamura’s hair begins to fall out, and she and her daughter become ill. At the same time, Mr. Tanimoto, weak and feverish, becomes bedridden.Dr. Sasaki notices small hemorrhages all over her bare skin, a mysterious symptom many of his patients are beginning to show. He later discovers that this is the result of her low white-blood cell count,
Hiroshima began to flood every time it rained as nature was trying to destroy what was left In Hiroshima, as Japanese physicists make observations about the blast area, Dr. Sasaki and his colleagues develop new theories about radiation sickness by observing their patients. Miss Sasaki’s infection lingers on eleven weeks after the bomb Hersey lets the image speak for itself: a ten-year-old boy who progresses from eating peanuts in the morning, to seeing “burned and bleeding” people walking around, to meeting a child his own age whose mother is dead.
In 1951, haunted by his awful experiences there, Dr, Sasaki quits the hospital and eventually sets up a private clinic in Mukaihara. Tragedy strikes Dr. Sasaki’s life again, however. In 1963 he nearly dies when an operation to remove one of his lungs goes awry; in 1972, his wife dies of breast cancer. These two experiences drive him to devote his life to his work. He uses the success of his clinic to build bigger and better medical facilities, and forty years after the bomb, we find him working as hard as ever to help