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Hiroshima Book Chapters 1-3

Uploaded by 2ndgrader on Dec 23, 2004

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The book Hiroshima describes different peoples' accounts of the atomic bomb. One person whom I chose to write about is Dr. Masakazu Fujii, his recollections of the bomb and what I believe he thought of during and after the bomb had hit.

Dr. Masakazu Fujii worked and lived at a private hospital which overlooked one of Japans rivers. Although knowing that a bomb attack was going to come, no one was scared enough to keep all stuffed up indoors. When the bomb hit, Dr. Fujii was reading the paper on his back porch. He saw a yellow-orange undesirable bright flash. The flash meant nothing to the Doctor, who thought it may be an explosion down at a chemical plant, but it was too bright for that. Before the Doctor had much time to think, he felt an odd force and a rumbling like a train filled the air. He lost his balance and fell off the porch into the river. As he fell he became disoriented, with so much happening so fast that he had no time to think. He had thought that he had died, but then he was awakened by pain. Dr. Fujii felt intense pressure upon his chest. He was still bewildered and had not thought much about what was the cause of the catastrophe, but only about getting himself out of this mess. The Doctor struggled to get out, but because of the way he was jammed in the rubble, and with an injured shoulder he had a rough time. He had no clue or thought of what happened, and he was beginning to get scared. He began to analyze his situation, and realized that he should get out quick because the tide was going to come in soon and if he did not get out of the river he would drown. With that as inspiration he fought with all his will to get the boards off him.

Dr. Fujii then walked into the city to get some information on what had happened. He quickly realized that his cuts and bruises were minor after witnessing the destruction around him. He saw his whole neighborhood crushed flat. He thought it must have been a bomb that had landed on top of him because of the destruction of the land....

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Uploaded by:   2ndgrader

Date:   12/23/2004

Category:   History

Length:   4 pages (849 words)

Views:   8002

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