<Tab/>Hiroshima was a terrible event that occurred on August 6th, 1945. In this novel, John Hersey interviews six survivors who were first-hand witnesses of the event. These six people tell their stories from hours before the bomb dropped, to almost four decades after it occurred, to get a glimpse of reality on the horrible crime that affected thousands of people forever. The six people are as follows: <Tab/&…
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…church in the city, but he does not have as much money as the Jesuits. Mrs. Nakamura, when her hair has grown back, scrapes together her money and rents a small shack near the site of her old house, while putting her children back into school in Hiroshima. Dr. Sasaki, after almost never leaving the hospital building in the four months after the blast, begins to focus on his own life and marries in March.