Hiroshima: A Noiseless Flash
The first chapter focuses on the lives of a few people just before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The author John Hersey describes you different point of views of Mr. Tanimoto, Mrs. Nakamura, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Father Wilheim Kleinsorge, Dr Terafumi Sanaki, and Miss Toshiko Sasaki leading up to the day of the bombing and their experience seconds after the bomb dropped. The blast was so powerful that, even though these people were mostly further than 1500 yards from it, it made the fly out into the air.
So this chapter it’s mainly to give the reader an idea of whom these people were, innocent good people that did nothing wrong. It was just another regular day in between a war. Many of them even mention already …show more content…
Tanimoto who was just a reverend helping Mr. Matsuo with some furniture and the one furthest from the blast at 3500 yards, he still got knocked out. Mrs Nakamura was just a housewife that was taking care of her children and when the bomb was dropped their house got turned into pieces, they were 1350 yards from it which is less than a mile (Hersey, 5). Dr. Fujii had a small hospital with a lot of top-notch medical technology and he was having a day off when the bomb dropped and destroyed his home and hospital. Father Kleinsorge had just finished with one of his services and had stepped outside as he usually does, when he literally sees the bomb in the sky as it drops and after the big flash his mind goes …show more content…
It would force Japan to surrender without an invasion, and it would impress the Soviets and, just maybe, make them more amenable to American views on the postwar world order (Making America, 753.). B-29s were ready to carry the bombs that already had been assembled, just like Mr. Tanimoto said that B-29s made everybody anxious because of what they were capable of doing (Hersey, 1.) So on August 6 1945 at 9:15am the first bomb is dropped on Hiroshima nicknamed the “Little Boy” killing almost half of the population and later killing most of the rest from the effects of the radiation (Making America,