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Title: Hiroshima by John Hersey ISBN: 0-679-72103-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 March, 1989 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (151 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Something never to happen again in our humanity..'Hiroshima'
Comment: Hiroshima is a book I read when I was in 9th grade. I decided to reread this book after learning that my grandfather's brother died during the deadly atomic bomb massacre in Hiroshima on August 1945, when there was nothing but sounds of death everywhere.
Until this day, my country Korea fights with Japan for various reasons starting from entertainment to history. Reading a book with full of sympathy of my country's rival Japan may not sound appropriate, since the majority dislike Japanese people and several think they deserved the sufferings from the atomic bomb attack. After all, they were the ones who invaded Korea and did unforgivable war crimes during the Second World War. However, after finishing this book...I learned that I was wrong, very wrong indeed.
This book explains fully about the suffrages of the bomb from death, pain, anguish and sadness. After reading Hiroshima and my Grandfathers story of his dead brother I learned something special, Japan's pain from war was not any different to Korea's suffrage and the sadness and pain is what we all shared during war. Furthermore, I felt guilty to think that Japan deserved it, and that it is not right to blame Japan for everything.
This book is a collection of interviews by John Hersey, all interviewed straight after the bomb attack. Hersey managed to interview six survivors who managed to live and was able to escape from the edge of death. The six survivors include Miss Toshinki Sasaki, a clerk, Dr. Masakazu Fuji, a physician, Mrs. Nakamura, widow, Father Kleinsorge, priest, Dr. Sasaki, and Mr. Tanimoto. All six interviews were unbelievable, and sounded almost like a miracle that they managed to survive through the devastating bomb. Hersey writes his interviews very emotionally and this helped me understand the survivors feelings more closely, making me emotional as well.
Miss Sasaki's (Toshinki) interview was most interesting to me. Her experience during the attack was unique compared to the other survivors. What made her unique was her story of being a cripple, a hibakusha some say. Japanese called the survivors from the bomb, 'hibakusha?and this definitely was not a pleasant word to say. Miss Sasaki lost her fianc?due to this dishonorable name Hibakusha. Reading her sorrow of losing her waiting love, the letter of guilt from her fianc? and herself to live on as a Hibakusha, lead me to the peak of sadness. To get rid of her pain she decides to become a nun. She said 'More notice should be given to the causes than to the instruments of total war?and yes I fully agree with her, war is meaningless. Most of the time I felt sympathy in this interview and it was hard to stop reading.
My favorite quote and a quote that I would never forget come from Miss Sasaki's interview. 'I shall not dwell on the past, I prefer not to look back and I shall keep moving forward? Many of us dwell on the past and some take it hard to accept change. I experienced it, but I too learned that it is meaningless to dwell hopelessly on the past. The only solution is to have a dream, make an aim, move forward, and end your life without regret.
I really enjoyed reading this book, it helped me understand what war is like and like the New York Times said 'Everyone able to read should read it? I recommend this book to everyone studying WW2 or Japan's history. In addition, to read one's experience becoming successful under difficult conditions, which is rare to see in nowadays society.
Lastly I would like to conclude that Hiroshima doesn't aim only on the suffering and consequences of the bomb brought to Japanese people, but to show what terror we have done to those innocent people and to show our emotions as a human. It is an unforgettable disaster for our humanity, and the book wants to shout that this should never happen again, in future.
Rating: 5
Summary: An important work
Comment: Hiroshima is a book that reconstructs the experiences of several people, including a German missionary, following the dropping of the A-Bomb on that city. It is a quite graphic and moving account, one that evokes the true horror that the survivors experienced. The debate as to whether the dropping of A-Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary will probably never be solved. Personally, I don't think it was necessary, but that is irrelevant here. The book is simply an attempt to put a human face on the incident, the failure or denial of which makes such heinous acts possible (I'm not defending the Japanese--they too committed unspeakable atrocities). The book's message is one of great importance, and therefore very much worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Shocking
Comment: An extremely vivid picture of atomic energy. It is scary to think of the consequences that occur in wartimes. It is probably one of the best books I have ever read. I would highly recommend this selection.
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