2)The point of view is Third Person and the narrator is John Hersey.
3)A tone being demonstrated would be Tragedy since the bomb has fallen on Hiroshima killing thousands of civilians. Hersey describes “the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience”(Hersey 36).
4)The setting of Hiroshima is in 1945 in Hiroshima,Japan.
5)The conflict on the story is the ignition of the B-29 atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb kills thousands of civilians and the overcrowding of the hospitals prevent immediate medical help for incoming patients.
6)The resolution of Hiroshima is how the aftermath of the B-29 bomb has permanently affected those who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. 7)The character Dr.Terufumi Sasaki is one of the six major characters of Hiroshima and he was the only doctor that wasn’t injured at the Red Cross Hospital. Sasaki never focused on his health and the effects of the bomb on him, he was more focused on the patients in the hospital. He ended up working for the Red Cross Hospital for quite a while and he had made a decision to create a private clinic in Mukaihara. Sasaki was a doctor and bomb survivor but he hadn’t paid attention to his health and after he went for a refresher training he was told he had a shadow on his lung due to the effects of the bomb. Sasaki had his lung removed and according to him it was more life-altering than he had expected of the removal. Sasaki had felt “haunted by the loneliness he had felt when he thought he was dying, he now did his best to move closer to his wife and children—two sons and two daughters”(Hersey 106), which shows that he had changed by getting closer to his family since he now realized life is too short to ignore problems within himself. 8) In Hiroshima a theme that is demonstrated is fear can encourage the character's demeanor once the B-29 atomic bomb has been dropped. …show more content…
All six major characters have different ways of overcoming the suspicion of the bomb being dropped.The suspicion of a bomb being dropped provoked Kiyoshi Tanimoto enough that he paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi, the city’s western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid”(Hersey 2). The feeling that the air raid prompts the citizens to withdraw their valuables some place that they will be protected if the atomic bomb were to drop on Hiroshima. The people of Hiroshima would go throughout their day with the constant fear that the B-29 bomb will drop on the city. Another theme demonstrated is the Japanese culture caused those who fled in terror and past the injured to feel shame in their decision. When the bomb was dropped, Mr.Tanimoto was running the opposite way of where many injured people had laid and he “as a Japanese he was overwhelmed by the shame of being unhurt.”(Hersey 29-30). Mr.Tanimoto wasn’t affected by the bomb and since he had darted the other way, he had this guilt that forced him to turn the other way towards the hospital. The way Terufumi had reacted to the bomb was a natural response to the bomb and if he hadn’t looked at the wounded he may have left Hiroshima, Japan right away. 9)The B-29 atomic bomb was detonated on August 6,1945 on Hiroshima,Japan that had about 245,000 residents.The majority of the city is demolished and thousands of citizens had died or had gotten injured.Those who had survived the bomb were dealing with the excruciating pain of burns and the radiation illness. Mrs Hatsuyo Nakamura was with her children as they slept before the bomb went off,when the bomb had exploded her and her children were underneath debris from their house.Miss Toshiko Sasaki was speaking with one of her coworkers before the explosion, when the bomb detonated she was blasted away from her desk and was trapped underneath a heavy bookcase and her leg was critically broken. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto had ran and took cover between two boulders and was struck by debris from nearby
3)A tone being demonstrated would be Tragedy since the bomb has fallen on Hiroshima killing thousands of civilians. Hersey describes “the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience”(Hersey 36).
4)The setting of Hiroshima is in 1945 in Hiroshima,Japan.
5)The conflict on the story is the ignition of the B-29 atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb kills thousands of civilians and the overcrowding of the hospitals prevent immediate medical help for incoming patients.
6)The resolution of Hiroshima is how the aftermath of the B-29 bomb has permanently affected those who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. 7)The character Dr.Terufumi Sasaki is one of the six major characters of Hiroshima and he was the only doctor that wasn’t injured at the Red Cross Hospital. Sasaki never focused on his health and the effects of the bomb on him, he was more focused on the patients in the hospital. He ended up working for the Red Cross Hospital for quite a while and he had made a decision to create a private clinic in Mukaihara. Sasaki was a doctor and bomb survivor but he hadn’t paid attention to his health and after he went for a refresher training he was told he had a shadow on his lung due to the effects of the bomb. Sasaki had his lung removed and according to him it was more life-altering than he had expected of the removal. Sasaki had felt “haunted by the loneliness he had felt when he thought he was dying, he now did his best to move closer to his wife and children—two sons and two daughters”(Hersey 106), which shows that he had changed by getting closer to his family since he now realized life is too short to ignore problems within himself. 8) In Hiroshima a theme that is demonstrated is fear can encourage the character's demeanor once the B-29 atomic bomb has been dropped. …show more content…
All six major characters have different ways of overcoming the suspicion of the bomb being dropped.The suspicion of a bomb being dropped provoked Kiyoshi Tanimoto enough that he paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi, the city’s western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid”(Hersey 2). The feeling that the air raid prompts the citizens to withdraw their valuables some place that they will be protected if the atomic bomb were to drop on Hiroshima. The people of Hiroshima would go throughout their day with the constant fear that the B-29 bomb will drop on the city. Another theme demonstrated is the Japanese culture caused those who fled in terror and past the injured to feel shame in their decision. When the bomb was dropped, Mr.Tanimoto was running the opposite way of where many injured people had laid and he “as a Japanese he was overwhelmed by the shame of being unhurt.”(Hersey 29-30). Mr.Tanimoto wasn’t affected by the bomb and since he had darted the other way, he had this guilt that forced him to turn the other way towards the hospital. The way Terufumi had reacted to the bomb was a natural response to the bomb and if he hadn’t looked at the wounded he may have left Hiroshima, Japan right away. 9)The B-29 atomic bomb was detonated on August 6,1945 on Hiroshima,Japan that had about 245,000 residents.The majority of the city is demolished and thousands of citizens had died or had gotten injured.Those who had survived the bomb were dealing with the excruciating pain of burns and the radiation illness. Mrs Hatsuyo Nakamura was with her children as they slept before the bomb went off,when the bomb had exploded her and her children were underneath debris from their house.Miss Toshiko Sasaki was speaking with one of her coworkers before the explosion, when the bomb detonated she was blasted away from her desk and was trapped underneath a heavy bookcase and her leg was critically broken. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto had ran and took cover between two boulders and was struck by debris from nearby