The book Hiroshima was an enlightening view of what went on during the atomic blast and the days after. The part that sticks most in my mind was when Mr. Tanimoto was trying to help burn victims on the shore of the river. When he grabbed the one woman's arm to pull her out to the

The only problem I found with the book was the way everything was put together. It made it very difficult to fallow some of what was going on during the book. The names were intertwined into the sections sometimes, and in others each person's experience was given an individual section.

stinking corpses would remain forever imbedded in their memories. Besides the physical injuries people lost their homes and possessions. Their families had died and they had nothing in their once peaceful town.

Another thing that remained in my memory throughout the novel was that people put their beliefs before their injuries. Mr. Tanimoto mention that he was ashamed that he could walk when he saw all of the injured people lying about unable to move. Dr. Sasaki didn't sleep for the first three days because he knew it would be wrong to. Amazingly though, the injured had no shame they walked naked with burns from head to toe and thought nothing of it.

The atomic bomb is a disgusting way

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)