Six Survivor Of Six Survivors Of Hiroshima By John Hersey

John Hersey's book on Hiroshima was telling the story of six survivors of Hiroshima. In this book, John descripies into great detail of what these six people were doing the day of the bombing that ended World War 2 and how they survived the atomic bomb. Miss Toshinki Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto where the six survivors that Mr. Hersey writes about in his story. These six people were among many other survivors. In this book, John Hersey adds a new chapter to describe what happened to them forty years after their first time he interviewed them. In this book that I read was a new edition of the book, that he wrote years before which this book …show more content…
But after the aftermath of the bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, these six people's lives start to get a little more complicated. After reading this is think the author chose people who made a difference after there bombing. I think because of these six people there was more survivors that day. After the bombings there is about "83,000 people who survived" (New York Times). Because the people he chose to write about started to help other people right away. I quote at the beginning of Chapter Two immediately after the explosion, the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto started to help people, he began to help a lady who was holding her head while she was holding a child in her other hand yelling she is hurt. He immediately goes to the women and graps the kid from her and tries to find her some help. Also Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura started to help others following the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. After the bomb she got up and went looking for her children under the rubbish that the bomb left. These are only some of the people who John Hersey talks about in this …show more content…
I am really glad that I decided to read this book because before reading this book I didn't know a lot about the dropping of one of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima. All I really knew was that they dropped the bombs to end World War 2. And I also knew that if Japan didn't surrender they were going to invade the mainland. So this book gave me lots of insight of what people in Japan went through during the war and the after effects. This book helped me gain more understanding of what devastation really looks like. These six people that the book talks about went through a