Anthony D'Angelo
Coach Dameron
4th Period
November 12, 2016
Hiroshima by John Hersey The first chapter on the book Hiroshima by John Hersey introduces six main characters/victims that survived the Hiroshima bombings. They explain their experiences before and after the explosion. The city of Hiroshima had been getting warnings about “fire raids.” (also known as a firebombing raid) The warning sirens of incoming planes will go off mostly every day, in the book it tells us that “the air-raid siren went off, a minute-long blast warned of approaching plans but indicated to the people of Hiroshima only a slight degree of danger, since it sounded every morning at this time, when an American weather plane came over.” Since this happened every morning the citizens of Hiroshima didn’t really have much to worry about because …show more content…
The city of Hiroshima lies on six major islands; the islands are made from the Ota River’s delta. In the book it tells us that the center of the city’s population is around 380,000 but many of the evacuation programs brought the population to 245,000. Almost all of the six victims of the book describe how they have heard a rumor going around that “the Americans were saving something special for the city” and they were right. One of the victims, Dr. Fujii, owns his own private hospital. He is the only doctor in the who building, which stood next to the Kyo River. In the past month he hasn’t been that busy because he isn’t accepting any business, if there was a fire raid there would be no time to evacuate his patients. At the time the bomb went off Dr. Fujii was sitting on his porch reading the “Osaki Asahi” (he likes to read about the city because that’s where his wife and children were staying), the hospital and Dr, Fujii was toss into the river. Dr. Fujii was stuck between to large heavy beams but his head