Hiroshima

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On page 45, it talks about how although he is a small man Tanimoto lifts several men and woman that he finds naked and helpless into his boat. He is doing this in order to help save them. But not only are they naked as he is trying to pick them up, their skin is slipping off. Yet Tanimoto continues to help. At the end of the book it talks about Tanimoto’s trip to America to help collect money to restore his church. Although it becomes much more than that I just wanted to point out a reference from page 136. It says an idea grew in Tanimoto’s mind, “He would spend his life working for peace.” And that’s exactly what he works at.

Hersey’s Overall Argument:
The overall argument of the book is that the bombing was immoral because of the effects it had on the citizens. Hersey shows us in depth accounts of six people’s lives that were affected by the bomb. By doing this we see that it was not just an explosion and then ‘boom’ everything stopped, people’s ...

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