Hiroshima Genre

Name: Paul Peterson Date: 3/10/2017 Period: 3
Book Title: Hiroshima Genre: Historical Nonfiction
Author: John Hersey Number of Pages: 152
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Brief Summary and “Arrangement” of the Book:
Arrangement - The book is divided into 5 chapters, the last of which is an account 40 years after the war. It is organized by character, so in one section it will talk about only one character. This method of writing is effective because it gives the events in chronological order, but still separates out the characters for clarity. The characters interact sometimes, but for most of the book, their stories are separate.
Extra-textual Elements - The fifth chapter was added on to the book forty years later, as a follow-up to the main events in

After hours of partial consciousness she is pulled out and set under a shelter with two other badly wounded survivors. She is left there for two days, but eventually she is taken to a the Red Cross Hospital where Dr. Sasaki cares for her. She has many symptoms of radiation sickness. Father Kleinsorge visits her and she gets better. She gets to leave the hospital and eventually leads a normal life. Later in life she works for orphanages and continues operations for her leg. She also takes her vows to become a nun and adopts the name Sister Dominique Sasaki. Her travels take her around the world where she is honored as a

He escapes from the home and heads to Asano Park where they look for help. At the park he helps out where he can, but his condition is worsening. His symptoms of radiation sickness send him to a hospital in the city of Tokyo. Once he is healthy he helps Miss Sasaki back to health and commissions a new mission house. He puts himself to work and becomes so busy that he becomes sick and returns to the hospital. Later in life he becomes a citizen and is renamed Father Makoto Takakura. He moves to a little church where he eventually dies with his endeared nurse, Yoshiki-san, at his