Comparing Elie Wiesel's Experiences In Hiroshima And Night
Lavinia Cantus
Mrs. Uehling Block 1
Hiroshima and Night
Hiroshima and Night are two novels about one of the world’s most powerful and destructive wars. In Hiroshima, Hersey writes of the events that began on August 6, 1945. Hiroshima is told through the memories of six survivors: Miss Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, and Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, and Hersey makes sure to never let his readers forget their stories. Every one of those six people experiences their share of death, destruction, and dehumanization. Elie Wiesel contributes similar concepts in Night. But instead of other people putting forth their stories, Elie Wiesel shares his own war story by narrating his …show more content…
Thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were in the yard and on the driveway. (47) In a way, there is a positive side to that. Since the government wasn’t destroyed or taken control of, there could have been some hope in civilians’ minds that help was on the way. And there was. A young naval officer shouted early in the evening of the day the bomb exploded, “Be patient. A naval ship is coming to take care of you!” (42) The promise of medical care anyone had heard of in twelve hours delighted everyone in Asano Park. It was too bad that the promised succor never came. It seems as though the government had let its people down. Mr. Tanimoto thought after again seeing all of the wounded, why hadn’t the ship come yet? He felt a murderous rage at the crew of the ship and all of the doctors. “Why hadn’t they come to help these people?” (46) In a way, the government did have its own responsibilities and duties that some would say were more important than finding aid for the wounded. It did need to find a way to communicate with the Americans, to respond to the atomic bombs. But on the contrary, Japan’s population was decreasing rapidly, and humans were on the
Mrs. Uehling Block 1
Hiroshima and Night
Hiroshima and Night are two novels about one of the world’s most powerful and destructive wars. In Hiroshima, Hersey writes of the events that began on August 6, 1945. Hiroshima is told through the memories of six survivors: Miss Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, and Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, and Hersey makes sure to never let his readers forget their stories. Every one of those six people experiences their share of death, destruction, and dehumanization. Elie Wiesel contributes similar concepts in Night. But instead of other people putting forth their stories, Elie Wiesel shares his own war story by narrating his …show more content…
Thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were in the yard and on the driveway. (47) In a way, there is a positive side to that. Since the government wasn’t destroyed or taken control of, there could have been some hope in civilians’ minds that help was on the way. And there was. A young naval officer shouted early in the evening of the day the bomb exploded, “Be patient. A naval ship is coming to take care of you!” (42) The promise of medical care anyone had heard of in twelve hours delighted everyone in Asano Park. It was too bad that the promised succor never came. It seems as though the government had let its people down. Mr. Tanimoto thought after again seeing all of the wounded, why hadn’t the ship come yet? He felt a murderous rage at the crew of the ship and all of the doctors. “Why hadn’t they come to help these people?” (46) In a way, the government did have its own responsibilities and duties that some would say were more important than finding aid for the wounded. It did need to find a way to communicate with the Americans, to respond to the atomic bombs. But on the contrary, Japan’s population was decreasing rapidly, and humans were on the