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“Hiroshima”
by John HerseySlide2
What do you know?
Take a few minutes now to make a list of things you know about World War II or Hiroshima
Share with classmatesSlide3
Historical
Context
Nonfiction
World War II:1939-1945
Allies
vs
Axis
Allies: USA, USSR, Britain, China, Poland, France
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan
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Japan
HiroshimaSlide5
HiroshimaSlide6
HiroshimaSlide7
Historical
Context
Nonfiction
World War II:1939-1945
Allies
vs
Axis
Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941
18 ships hit, 180 aircraft destroyed
2,400 killed; 1,200 woundedSlide8
Pearl HarborSlide9
Pearl HarborSlide10
Historical
Context
Nonfiction
World War II:1939-1945
Allies
vs
Axis
Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
Creation of New Weapon
Long War/American Lives
Manhattan Project
Potsdam Ultimatum
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“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
~Albert EinsteinSlide12
Creating the BombSlide13
Historical
Context
Nonfiction
World War II:1939-1945
Allies
vs
Axis
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Creation of New Weapon
August 6, 1945: First bomb
Temperatures/Winds
Radiation
200,000
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"
If they (Japan) do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.”
~President
Harry S. Truman
August 6, 1945
Dropping the BombSlide15
Dropping the BombSlide16
Dropping the BombSlide17
The “Enola Gay”…the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, piloted by Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets.Slide18Slide19
“Little Boy” was what the military named the
bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
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“As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: ‘My God, what have we done?’”
-Capt. Robert Lewis
co-pilot of the Enola GaySlide21
This picture is an example
of a
“Hiroshima Shadow”. The man that was standing by his ladder disintegrated instantly after the blast.Slide22
“Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. …which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.”
~President Harry S. Truman in a radio address to Americans after the bomb was dropped on HiroshimaSlide23Slide24
John Hersey
Born
1914 in
China
Studied
journalism at Yale and Cambridge
WWII
correspondent for
Time
magazine
Writings
center around the topic of war
Pulitzer
Prize
Died
1993Slide25Slide26
“Hiroshima”
“[I was]
astonished
that in all the
millions of words
being written about the bomb–how and why the decision was made, how the bomb came to be built, whether it should have been dropped at
all–what had actually happened in Hiroshima
itself...
was being ignored
.”
William Shawn
Managing Editor,
The New YorkerSlide27
TO OUR READERS:
The New Yorker
this week devotes its
entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city
by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet
comprehended
the all but
incredible destructive power
of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the
terrible implications of its use.
- The Editors. Slide28
The Survivors…
interviewed by John Hersey for “Hiroshima”
Mrs.
Hatsuyo
Nakamura
Miss
Toshinki
Sasaki
Dr. Masakazu
Fujii
Father William
Kleinsorge
Dr.
Terufumi
Sasaki
Rev. Kiyoshi
TantimotoSlide29
Hersey’s Writing
Hersey as author/narrator:
Never speaks
Never offers opinionNever gives analysis
He is merely a scribe for those
who were there.Slide30
Setting Scenes
From every second or third house came the voices of
people buried and abandoned
, who invariably screamed, with formal politeness,
“
Tasukete
kure
!
Help, if you please!” The priests recognized several ruins from which these cries came as
homes of friends,
but because of the fire it was
too late to help
. (28)Slide31
Setting Scenes
At Sakai Bridge, which would take them across to the East Parade Ground, they saw that the whole community on the opposite side of the river was a
sheet of fire
; they dared not cross… (28)Slide32
Creating Images
They encountered only one person, a woman, who said to them as they passed,
“My husband is in those ashes.”
(40)Slide33
Creating Images
He met hundreds and hundreds who were fleeing […]
skin hung from their faces and hands
. Others, because of pain, held their arms up as if carrying something.
Some vomited
as they walked. On some undressed bodies the
burns made patterns
–of undershirts [and] the shapes of flowers they had on their kimonos. (29)Slide34
Emotional Impact
Under many houses,
people screamed for help
, but
no one helped
; in general, survivors that day assisted only their relatives or immediate neighbors, for
they could not comprehend or tolerate a wider circle of misery
. (29)Slide35
Emotional Impact
Tugged here and there
in his
stockinged
feet,
bewildered
by the numbers,
staggered
by so much raw flesh, Dr. Sasaki lost all sense of profession and stopped working as a skillful surgeon and sympathetic man; he became an automaton,
mechanically wiping, daubing, winding, wiping, daubing, winding. (26)Slide36
Using Dialogue
“
Itai
! It hurts!”
Yaeko
cried.
Mrs. Nakamura shouted,
“There’s no time now to say whether it hurts or not,”
and yanked her whimpering daughter up. (19)Slide37
Using Dialogue
Father
Kleinsorge
went into the room and took Mr. Fukai
by the collar of his coat and said,
“Come with me or you’ll die.”
Mr.
Fukai
said,
“Leave me here to die.” (27)Slide38
Numbers and Statistics
Of a
hundred and fifty
doctors in the city,
sixty-five
were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of
1,780
nurses,
1,645 were dead or too badly hurt to work. (24)Slide39
Numbers and Statistics
At least
10,000
of the wounded made their way to the best hospital in town, which was altogether unequal to such a trampling, since it had only
600
beds, and they had all been occupied. (25)Slide40
Keeping it Simple
A woman from next door ran up to him and
shouted that her husband was buried
under her house and the house was on fire; Father
Kleinsorge
must come and save him.
Father
Kleinsorge
, already growing
apathetic and dazed in the presence of cumulative distress, said, “We haven’t much time.” (26-27)Slide41
Critical Reaction
"
The death and destruction
not merely of people and cities, but
of the human conscience
is clearly involved."
– NY Times
“An
insipid falsification
of the truth of atomic warfare. To have done the atom bomb justice, Mr. Hersey would have had to interview the dead.” – Mary McCarthy Slide42
Critical Reaction
“I don't think I've ever got as much
satisfaction
out of anything else in my life.”
- Harold Ross, founder,
The New YorkerSlide43
Position Statement
Will be writing a persuasive essay about whether or not the US should have dropped the atomic bombs
Evidence: notes from last week, “Hiroshima”, news articles, websites, etc.
Three best arguments
Slide44
Reading/Test Schedule
Mon-Wed: Chapter 1 (questions due Wed)
Wed-Fri: Chapter 2 (questions due Fri)
Test on Monday 5/3 (Ch 1-2)
Mon-Wed: Chapter 3 (questions due Wed)
Wed-Fri: Chapter 4 (questions due Fri)
Test on Monday 5/10 (Ch 3-4)
Please
do not
read ahead. Extra credit worksheets are available if you finish early (and
ONLY
if your reading guide is 100% done)