Thursday, March 31, 2016

Journal 7_Hiroshima - Antonio

Part One: The character that I find the most interesting is Dr. Sasaki because of he is not giving up even as waves of injured people continue to hound him for medical treatment. He has wavered, he has no enthusiasm anymore for saving people, but he continues on. Dr. Sasaki continued to do his duty through sleep deprivation as well, since sleep would be halted by yelling patients. His character is not perfect. He does not want to help these people in his normal precise, surgical manner, but he does help as many as he can, as fast as he can. We learn that although Dr. Sasaki is getting pushed to his limits, he still has a job to do, and as impossible as it is, he does it. "...Dr. Sasaki worked for three straight days with only one hour's sleep." (Hershey, 74).

Part Two: I decided to look into Japan's emperor at the time of the bombings, Hirohito. He surrendered after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. Upon U.S. occupation, Japan's government was restructured into a constitutional monarchy. He became the first emperor to speak to common people and have his personal life exposed. His son was also the first prince to marry a common person. (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito)

Part three:
Hiroshima before (left) and after (right) the A-bomb was dropped

4 comments:

  1. I also think the Emperor at the time is an interesting topic. Japan had the mindset of never surrendering for anything, everyone would die for their country. The United States changed this by the bombings. Japan's Emperor at the time never spoke to the public ever either, but because of the country surrendering the emperor basically had to. This was a big time for Japan's history.

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  2. I also chose to research more on the emperor, like many other did too, but I like how you talked about his son and what happened to Japan's government after the bombing too. I also like how you chose a passage that showed how physically exhausting the after affects made people.

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  3. When I wrote my own Journal 7, I couldn't decide if I wanted to write about Dr. Sasaki or Mr. Tanimoto, so I am glad that you chose him to highlight. He is another man that I really admired. I feel like a lot of people would've have ran away from the burden of having to help all of those people, but he stayed to help hundreds. I can't imagine how scary it all must have been or how tired he was during it all.

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  4. I also think the Emperor at the time is an interesting topic. Japan had the mindset of never surrendering for anything, everyone would die for their country. The United States changed this by the bombings. Japan's Emperor at the time never spoke to the public ever either, but because of the country surrendering the emperor basically had to. This was a big time for Japan's history.

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