John Hersey's Hiroshima
Importance of Hiroshima When in a car accident with a family, the first thing a father does is help his family and make sure the family is okay. In John Hersey's Hiroshima, we learn that we should continue to think others before ourselves like a father would his family and that things you use to care about do not matter when in a bad situation. Other people are more important than oneself. Instead of just helping herself, Mrs. Nakamura’s first person to help was not herself but it was her children. Indeed this was her family but Hersey states, “All day, people poured into Asano Park… At once they were nauseated and began vomiting.” (Hersey 35) All of the people came to one spot to help each other out. If they were able to move and get to