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Hiroshima Chapter 1 - A Noiseless Flash The story starts out by a mini intro of the characters. Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works, was sitting down talking to the girl of the next desk. Dr. Fuji was sitting down the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor's widow, stood by the window of her kitchen, watching a neighbor tear down his house. Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's mission house. Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's Red Cross Hospital, walked along in the halls carrying a blood specimen.

Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist was carrying some of his possessions to a rich man's house in fear of the massive B-29 raid, which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer. Reverend Mr. TanimotoMr. Tanimoto was a small man, quick to talk, laugh, and cry. His hair parted in the middle and rather long; the prominence of the frontal bones just above his eyebrows and the smallness of hi mustache, mouth, and chin gave him a strange, old-young look, boyish and yet wise, weak and yet fiery. He woke up a 5: 00 because he could not sleep. He was worrying about his wife and kids, and a massive raid on their town.

Mr. Tanimoto had studied theology at Emory College, in Atlanta, Georgia. He started to carry his things and belongings from the church with his friend Mr. Matsuo to Mr. Matsui's house, a man who let a large number of his friends and acquaintances, so that they might evacuate whatever they wished to a safe distance from the target area. Mr. Tanimoto and Mr. Matsuo made a quick stop to Mr. Matsuo's house to carry a large Japanese cabinet. They arrived to Mr. Matsui's house tired and exhausted.

A tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. They were 2 miles from the center of the explosion. Mr. Matsuo dived in the bedrolls. Mr. Tanimoto took four or five steps into the house and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden. There was no roar.

When Mr. Tanimoto looked up, he saw Mr. Matsui's house was in to pieces. Mr. Tanimoto dashed out to the streets and noticed everything around him was in ruins too. Mrs. Hatsuyo NakamuraMrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor's widow, lived in the section called Nobo ri-cho.

She set her three children- a 10-year-old boy (Toshio), an 8-year-old girl (Ya eko), and a 5-year-old girl (Myeko) to sleep. They woke up at two, when they heard the big roar of the planes going over Hiroshima. They reached home after about 30 minutes later (2: 30). She turned on the radio, to her dismay, broadcast ed a fresh warning.

She did not want to move anymore (she has been for a very long time). So she set her children to sleep. She started to cook some rice and watched a neighbor tear down his house. Suddenly, everything flashed whiter than any white had ever seen. Mrs. Nakamura was about 3/4 miles away from the center of the explosion. She seemed to fly into the next room over the raised sleeping platform, pursued by parts of her house.

Her youngest daughter was buried and unable to move. Mrs. Nakamura frantically tried to claw her daughter out, not knowing of her other children. Dr. Masakazu FujiiDr. Fujii was the proprietor of a peculiarly Japanese institution: a private, single doctor hospital. His hospital was next to the Kyo River, and next to the bridge at the same name, contained 30 rooms for the patients and their kinfolk.

Dr. Fujii had only straw mats for his patients and not beds. He did have some modern equipment- an X-ray machine, diathermy apparatus, and a fine tiled laboratory. The structure rested 2/3 on the land, one-third on piles over the tidal waters of the Kyo. He now only had two patients, women from Yano, injured in the shoulder, and a young man of 25 recovering from burns from the steel factory.

Dr. Fujii had six nurses to tend his patients. His wife and children were safe; his wife and one son were living outside Osaka, another son and two daughters were in the country on Kyushu. A niece lived with him, acting as a maid and a manservant. Dr. Fujii, at 50, was healthy, convivial, and calm, and he was pleased to pass the evenings drinking whiskey with friends. (WOW!) Dr. Fujii sat down to read Osaka A sabi. He started to notice his paper was a brilliant yellow.

He rise to his feet. Dr. Fujii was about a mile from the center. By the time it was over, Dr. Fujii was squeezed tightly by two long timers in a V across hi chest, like a morsel suspended between two chopsticks-held upright. He could not move.

His hospital was scattered around like confetti. His left shoulder hurt and his glasses were gone. Father Wilhelm KleinsorgeFather Kleinsorge, at the age of thirty-age, the look of a boys growing too fast-thin in the face, with a prominent Adam's apple, a hollow chest, dangling hands, big feet. He was sick and had trouble walking straight. This has been going on for two days. He lived with Father Superior La Salle and Father Schiffer.

Father Kleinsorge woke up about six the morning the bomb was dropped. He began to read Mass in the mission chapel. This Monday, the only worshippers were Mr. Take moto, Mr. Fukai, and Mrs., Murata, and his fellow priests. The Fathers sat and talked awhile, then they retired to their rooms. Father Kleinsorge took off all hi clothes except his underwear and stretched out on hi right side on a cot and began reading his magazine, Stim men der Zeit. After a terrible flash, Father Kleinsorge later realized, reminded him of something he had read as a boy about a large meteor colliding the earth- his only thought was, 'A bomb has fallen on us.

' He was only 1,400 yards from the center of the explosion. Father Kleinsorge never knew how he got out of the house, he was bleeding from small cuts but he was ok. Dr. Terufumi Sasaki Dr. Sasaki, the Red Cross Hospital surgeon decided to hop on the train instead of hi car knowing that he will get to the hospital faster. He was only 25 years old and had just completed his training at the Eastern Medical University, in Tsingtao, China. He arrived at the hospital at 7: 40 and reported to the chief surgeon. A few minutes later, he went to a room and drew some blood from a man in order to do a Wassermann test.

He walked along the corridors of the hospital with the blood specimen in his left hand. He was a stop beyond an open window when the light of the bomb was reflected, like a photographic flash. Amazingly, he was unhurt. He called the chief surgeon and rushed around to the man's office and found him cut by glass. Dead and injured people were everywhere, or so it seems. He began to bandage the wounded.

People outside to the hospital lined up in front of the hospital, waiting to be helped. Miss Toshiko Sasaki (Not related to Dr. Sasaki) Miss Sasaki was a clerk for the East Asia Tin Works. He 11-month old brother, Akio, was sick from a serious stomach flu; her mother had taken him to the Tamura Pediatric Hospital and was staying there with him. She was about 20 years old, she had to cook breakfast for her father, brother, sister, and herself. She was in charge of the personnel records in the factory. Miss Sasaki went back to her desk, put some stuff in the drawers and shifted some papers around.

She chatted with the girl at her right. Just as she turned her head away from the windows, the room was filled with a big blinding light. (The plant was about 1,600 yards from the center). Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness for a very long time.

She was literally crushed by stacks and stacks of books. Chapter 2 - The Fire This chapter explains what happened after the dreadful flash. This soundless bomb caused a lot of chaos, as houses collapsed, fires arose, and people getting burns everywhere. The characters in the story undergo a great ordeal of pain and suffering. Some characters like Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge, were mostly unharmed, started to help people rather than to run for their lives. They both have God working in their hearts.

Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi TanimotoMr. Tanimoto saw a woman holding her head and on her back, a small boy 3 or 4 years of age. He transported them to a grammar school not far away that had been previously been designated for use as a temporary hospital in case of an emergency. He arrived to the school, surprised to see about 60 injured people in there already. Everything around him was in ruins, the houses especially. Mr. Tanimoto turned away from the sight when he heard Mr. Matsuo call out to ask whether he is all right.

Mr. Matsuo luckily, was safely cushioned between the bedding stored in the front hall and had worked his way out. Mr. Tanimoto worried for his wife and baby, church, his home, his parishioners, all of them down in that awful darkness. Mr. Tanimoto was fearful for his family so he began to run towards them, by the shortest route. Along the way he saw many people badly injured. Since he was a Christian, he was filled with sorrow ness for those who were trapped. He tried to save some people at one point but the flames stopped him.

He bumped into his wife. Mr. Tanimoto was relieved that she was safe. His wife told him that she was heading out to Ushida. Mr. Tanimoto said he wanted to see his church and help some people. He quickly ran to his church and along the way gave some people water, he apologized that he couldn't help all of them. There at his church, he met Father Kleinsorge and found out Mr. Fukai-san (his close friend) had ran back into the fires.

Nakamura dug as hard as she could, she heard voices crying for help. They were her children! The children originally were sleeping nearly ten feet apart, now they were all in one place. She dug them out and took them out into the street. The next door neighbor was dead.

She went back to fetch some clothes for her children and had to sacrifice the sewing machine (what she used to help earn a living). Mrs. Hat aya called to Mrs. Nakamura to run away with her to the woods in Asano Park- an estate, by the Kyo River not far off, belonging to the wealthy Asano family, who once owned the Toyo Kis en Kaisha steamship line. She saw Father Kleinsorge, in bloody underwear, running out of the house with a small suitcase in his hand while she started out for Asano Park. Father Wilhelm KleinsorgeFather LaSalle came around the corner of the building in the darkness. His body, especially his back was bloody. Father Kleinsorge managed to ask, 'Where is the rest?' The two other priests living in the mission house appeared-Father Cies lik, unhurt, supporting Father Schiffer, who was covered with blood that spurted from a cut above his left ear and who was very pale.

The two fathers set out for Dr. Kanda who later discovered that his house was ruined, and set out for Dr. Fuji's private hospital. The daughter of Mr. Hoshi jima, ran up to Father Kleinsorge and said that her mother and sister were buried under the ruins of their house. Father Kleinsorge also noticed a Catholic-Kindergarten teacher buried under the compound. While LaSalle and Mrs. Murata, the housekeeper, dug the teacher out, Father Kleinsorge dug for the 2 people. They were saved, neither was badly hurt.

Father Kleinsorge quickly gathered all his things and put it in a suitcase. He stemmed Father Schiffer's spurting cut as well as he could with some bandage that Dr. Fujii had given the priests a few days before. He put on his old military uniform and an old pair of gray trousers. Instantaneously a woman came for help. Her husband was buried under her house. She led him to the house.

He looked and looked. A teacher pointed up to the second floor and there was Mr. Fukai standing in his window on the second floor. Father Kleinsorge ran inside the mission house and scrambled up the stairs. Mr. Fukai did not want to leave so Father Kleinsorge had to drag Mr. Fukai out of the room. Once he reached to the 'safe area' he stumbled, and dropped Mr. Fukai. Mr. Fukai ran back towards the fire.

Dr. Masakazu FujiiDr. Fujii's hospital was not on the ground anymore, but in the river. He managed to squeeze out of the two timbers holding him up. Dr. Fujii was soaking wet and dirty. He set out for the bridge and met a friend, Dr. Machii. They talked about what happened and concluded that a Molotoffano tanaka go- a flower basket, the delicate Japanese name for the breadbasket, or self-scattering cluster of bombs had been dropped onto the city.

Dr. Fujii walked to the railway station to see his friend off. Dr. Fujii began to help a nurse hanging in the timbers of his hospital by her legs, and another painfully pinned across the breast. He freed them both. Dr. Fujii never saw his niece again, he went back into the water of the river and waited for the fire to die out.

Dr. Fujii went close to the shore, and found it was possible to wade along every edge of the river. Dr. Fujii and two nurses moved about two hundred yards up stream near a sandpit in Asano park. He saw Dr. Machii there. He was going to a parental house in Nagatsuka and asked if Dr. Machii wanted to go. Dr. Machii reclined because of his daughter's injuries.

Dr. Fujii reached his family's house in the evening. Dr. Sasaki Everything around him seemed to be chaotic. Bottles, salves, instruments were everywhere. He grabbed some bandaged and an unbroken bottle of Mercurochrome, hurried back to the chief surgeon, and bandaged his cuts. He blundered so much without his glasses, so he took a pair off a nurse.

(How mean!) Dr. Sasaki began to treat those who were the nearest to him first. Patients lay and crouched on the floors of the wards and the laboratories and all the other rooms. He realized there were people coming from the outside too. Many people were vomiting. A tremendous number of schoolgirls-some of those who had been taken from their classrooms to work outdoors, crept into the hospital.

Dr. Sasaki was now working overtime, everywhere he stepped, there was a person in need. It was driving him crazy. Miss Sasaki Miss Sasaki lay doubled over, unconscious, under the big pile of books. She came to after three hours. There was a HUGE pain in her left leg. She felt that her leg had been cut of somewhere below the knee.

She heard someone coming and cried for help as loud as she could. She heard somebody walk in, it was a rescuer! The man beckoned her to come, but she pointed out that her leg has been cut off or so it seems. 'Hold on, I'll get a crowbar. ' When he came back he said angrily, 'You " ll have to get out by yourself. ' Much later several men came and dragged Miss Sasaki out.

Her left leg wasn't cut off. They took her out to the courtyard. She could not move to the air-raid shelters. A man took a large sheet of corrugated iron as a kind of lean-to, and took her in his arms and carried her to it. She was grateful until she noticed 2 other people even more injured than her. (I will not get into details.) For the rest of the day, Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge did nothing but help the injured people.

Mr. Tanimoto mainly ferried people across the river to Asano Park. Father Kleinsorge began asking people go out to Nagatsuka where it was safe. Chapter 3 - Details Are Being Investigated The people in Asano Park are waiting for the Naval ships including Mrs. Nakamura. Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge continued to help the wounded. The Japanese soon found out that it was a new type of bomb of great power dropped by a few B-29's- enough power to equal into an amount of 20,000 tons of TNT. (WOW!) They dubbed it the 'the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.

' After about a week later, the emperor announced that the war was over. I personally think that this means that there probably won't be any more attacks from anybody. (The obvious) Father Kleinsorge Father Kleinsorge thought about Father Schiffer and Father La Salle, he needed to get them to Novitiate. He thought about Mr. Tanimoto and his boat. Mr. Tanimoto agreed and started to carry them. He also helped Mrs. Nakamura and her children.

They put Father Schiffer and the other people on the ground, one by one. Mr. Tanimoto went back to the sandpit to help the two girls who were calling for help in the salty waters. (Later, one of them died from hypothermia) He started to go to sleep, his last request was to send someone back to get the two Kata oka children that he met who were motherless. Mr. Tanimoto Mr. Tanimoto found about 20 men and women on the sandpit. It took him 3 trips to transport them all to the sandpit.

He was sickened by smelly bodies and tried to keep conscious. Mr. Tanimoto tired and beat, had a rage at the crew of the ship, and then all the doctors... why didn't they come and help these people? Mr. Tanimoto found a doctor. However, the doctor refused to help the heavily wounded people because it was the slightly wounded he must take care of first. Mr. Tanimoto was even angrier. He begged for some food and transported it to the dying people.

Mr. Tanimoto then visited suburb in Ushida, where his wife was staying with friends. Mr. Tanimoto went to his personage and dug up some of his diaries and such. Then Miss Tanaka came in and asked Mr. Tanimoto to help her father. Mr. Tanimoto went to the shelter that her father was in. He read a Psalm, Mr. Tanaka died as Mr. Tanimoto read it.

Dr. Fujii Dr. Fujii lay in his family's roofless house, badly hurt. In 11 in the morning, Dr. Fujii sat on his chair, applying compresses on his broken collarbone. Father Ciel isk came to his house to see how he was doing. Dr. Fujii gave him some instruments.

Dr. Fujii found out that the force that caused the destruction of Hiroshima was not a bomb at all. It was a big mass of magnesium powder that exploded when it come into contact with the live wires of the city power system. (Woah) Dr. Sasaki Dr. Sasaki, working all day to tend the wounded, was worn out. He went outside with the other survivors and slept. Then the people woke him up a few minutes later and then he was forced to help them, Dr. Sasaki worried about his mother, thinking that he was dead. He worked for 3 straight days.

Then he was relieved when a team of doctors came in. He took the train home back to Mukaihara. His mother said she had known he was all right, he then slept for 17 hours. When he came back, he was glad that the people in there were starting to clean up the corpses.

Miss Sasaki Miss Sasaki had nobody to help her. She was in the courtyard of the tin factory, beside the injured people. She was left two days and two nights under the piece of propped-up roofing with her badly wounded leg and her two friends. Her leg was badly messed up. After a while a few men took her to a military hospital. She overheard the doctors discussing the amputation of her leg.

Miss Sasaki had a high fever. She was taken ashore at Hatsukaichi and put in a temporary hospital. She lay there for a few days until a doctor from Kobe came to heal her. Mrs. Nakamura The Nakamura were provided with a blanket and a mosquito net. All had an appetite except Mrs. Nakamura and her younger daughter. Her son was having nightmares about his 'hero' and him standing next to each other, for some reason, he found that terrifying.

She took her children to her sister-in-law in Kabe. She then set back to Hiroshima and then later found out all her family were dead. She then later went back to Kabe, depressed. The next day, she met her younger-sister who had not been in Hiroshima, who said that the war was over. Chapter 4 - Panic Grass and Feverfew Father Kleinsorge, Mrs. Nakamura, her daughter Myeko, and Mr. Tanimoto came down with a capricious disease of weariness and feverishness, later to be known as radiation sickness.

They were all feeling overly tired and weak. The planning Conference, a government agency in Japan, came up with the figures of the casualties. 78,150 people dead, 13,983 were missing, and 37,425 had been injured. Lots of scientists came to the city to examine the bomb effects. A year after the bomb was dropped, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs. Nakamura was destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr. Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr. Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital which took him many years to acquire; Mr. Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality. Then the author gives us a letter Mr. Tanimoto wrote to an American.

It basically explained the pain and horror of the bomb's doing to the city. Miss Sasaki Miss Sasaki, still in pain was transported to the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima. Dr. Sasaki tended to her and put her in a private room where he prescribed her aspirin for her fever, and glucose for her undernourishment. She began to exhibit spot-hemorrhages.

Even though her bones were mending, the infections were still worsening, pus was flowing out of her nasty wound. Miss Sasaki thought often of the man whom she had been engaged to. After a few long and hard months, she was discharged. She prepared herself for conversion to Catholicism. Her fianc&e acute; never came to see her. Dr. Fujii Dr. Fujii was now living with Mr. Okuma, in Fu kawa.

His injuries seemed to heal very fast. He noticed in some of his patients a curious syndrome of symptoms that cropped out in the third and fourth weeks, but he was not able to do much. On September 17th, a big cloudburst swept the city and wiped out the bridges and washed out the streets. Luckily, Dr. Fujii and Mr. Okuma evacuated in time. After the big flood, they went back to the remains of Mr. Okuma's house, just a few pieces of wood.

Ten days after the flood, Dr. Fujii lived in the peasant's house on the mountain. Then he heard about a vacant private clinic to the east of Hiroshima. He bought it, and moved in at once. He soon built up a strong practice, and returned to his normal life gradually. Mrs. Nakamura After nearly a month after the atomic bomb was dropped, a rumor began to move around, and eventually it went to Kabe.

The bomb will give off deadly emanations for seven years. This is sad for Mrs. Nakamura because she can't go back to her house to fish out her possessions. Mrs. Nakamura and her relatives now started to hate America even more than before. Despite this rumor, Japanese physicists found out that people could enter Hiroshima without any harm. This relieved Mrs. Nakamura.

She sent her brother in law to get her sewing machine. To her dismay, the machine was all rusted and useless. Mrs. Nakamura and Myeko gradually began to feel better. When she felt better, she went to her bank in Hiroshima, and a clerk told here that after checking her numbers against the records the bank would give her money.

She got the money and rented a shack. She sent the children to school. She raised enough money to fix her sewing machine. Father Kleinsorge Father Kleinsorge arrived at the hospital, very much sick with the very high temperature of 104 and a low blood-count of 3,000. The doctor examined him and humored the father by lying that he will be out of the hospital in 2 weeks. He told Mother Superior that he was going to die in a week or so.

But then miraculously regained his white-blood count to a sustaining 5,800. American doctors came to Tokyo to examine his miraculous recovery. The Father was prescribed a 2-hour nap every evening. Father Kleinsorge and Father Lader man (the guy he has been living with) arranged for the purchase of three barracks. They put two together, end to end, and made a chapel. They commissioned a contractor to build a 3-story mission house.

He found it very hard to sleep like Dr. Fujii said. Mr. Tanimoto Mr. Tanimoto also came down with a huge fever of 104. He sent for a doctor, but the doctor was too busy so instead, a nurse came and gave him Vitamin B injections. He spent a month in bed and then later he took the train to his father's house in Shikoku, there he rested another month. Mr. Tanimoto draped a tent over a house he rented in Ushida. He gave his services there.

He became quite friendly with Father Kleinsorge and saw the Jesuits often. He envied the church's wealth; they seemed to be able to do anything they wanted. Dr. Sasaki Dr. Sasaki and a few colleagues discover three stages to the radiation sickness. Stage 1- a reaction to the radiation.

Stage 2- falling hair. Stage 3- high fevers and diarrhea. They also discovered other things and factors pertaining to the radiation sicknesses. Dr. Sasaki worked in the hospital non-stop for about 6-months until the hospital was fully back to normal. He felt really tired all the time.

He too also returned to normal.