Part One-
One biggest takeaway I learned from this book is hope. It was hope that made Mr. Tanimoto to help and save as many people as possible. It was hope that gave courage to Ms.Sasaki to stay alive in the rubble of tin factories for three days. The hope of being the only surgeon and treating people is what led Dr. Sasaki to work days and night without sleeping. The hope of seeing her children alive and giving them a better life allowed Mrs. Nakamura to survive.
Another biggest takeaway for me from this book was even though the bombing affected a lot of people, they came together as one whole community supporting each other, " One feeling the did seem to share, however, was a curious kind of elated community spirit something like that of
the Londoners after their blitz- a pride in their way they and their fellow- survivors had stood up to a dreadful ordeal (46). Hershey focused on this paragraph by deviating from the main charachters to give us an impresion of how the victims were suffering alone and never complained of it.
Part Two-
Majority of the facts presented by Dan Carlin were new to me, the most important example in this podcast was about the London Blitz. Germany conducted mass air attacks and bombed London continuously for 57 days killing more than forty thousand people. Another astonishing fact from this podcast was a number of people that were killed by bombings in Japan exceeded more than three hundred thousand. Almost half of it came from the bombing of Hiroshima.
Part Three-
I think for normal citizens like you and me, we don't have an opportunity to talk about avoiding catastrophes because it is not us who makes decisions. It seems like we are ants while two elephants are fighting with each other. If you are lucky you may live, otherwise, you may get trampled to death, such is the case where citizens are ants and politicians are elephants. Of course, they all are doing this for the betterment of our own country but in what way either killing people of a different country or getting our people killed. Unsuccessful political relationships between countries are causing harm to citizens while politicians get to enjoy in their house safeguarded by bodyguards. On a personal level, the only thing we can think of right now is protecting our country and its people, the common attitude political leaders have these days is you kill ten of my people and I'll kill thousand of yours, this is the way we are standing up for ourselves but where are we going through this? Is this a resolution? I think sometimes, it is better to talk and solve the matter than dropping bombs and killing people, even if this could not be done then at least it's our duty to stand with our country. Today, if a war starts, we don't even have to send an army, all we require is to hit the button to launch a missile. Within few minutes, the whole country will be wiped out.
One biggest takeaway I learned from this book is hope. It was hope that made Mr. Tanimoto to help and save as many people as possible. It was hope that gave courage to Ms.Sasaki to stay alive in the rubble of tin factories for three days. The hope of being the only surgeon and treating people is what led Dr. Sasaki to work days and night without sleeping. The hope of seeing her children alive and giving them a better life allowed Mrs. Nakamura to survive.
Another biggest takeaway for me from this book was even though the bombing affected a lot of people, they came together as one whole community supporting each other, " One feeling the did seem to share, however, was a curious kind of elated community spirit something like that of
the Londoners after their blitz- a pride in their way they and their fellow- survivors had stood up to a dreadful ordeal (46). Hershey focused on this paragraph by deviating from the main charachters to give us an impresion of how the victims were suffering alone and never complained of it.
Part Two-
Majority of the facts presented by Dan Carlin were new to me, the most important example in this podcast was about the London Blitz. Germany conducted mass air attacks and bombed London continuously for 57 days killing more than forty thousand people. Another astonishing fact from this podcast was a number of people that were killed by bombings in Japan exceeded more than three hundred thousand. Almost half of it came from the bombing of Hiroshima.
Part Three-
I think for normal citizens like you and me, we don't have an opportunity to talk about avoiding catastrophes because it is not us who makes decisions. It seems like we are ants while two elephants are fighting with each other. If you are lucky you may live, otherwise, you may get trampled to death, such is the case where citizens are ants and politicians are elephants. Of course, they all are doing this for the betterment of our own country but in what way either killing people of a different country or getting our people killed. Unsuccessful political relationships between countries are causing harm to citizens while politicians get to enjoy in their house safeguarded by bodyguards. On a personal level, the only thing we can think of right now is protecting our country and its people, the common attitude political leaders have these days is you kill ten of my people and I'll kill thousand of yours, this is the way we are standing up for ourselves but where are we going through this? Is this a resolution? I think sometimes, it is better to talk and solve the matter than dropping bombs and killing people, even if this could not be done then at least it's our duty to stand with our country. Today, if a war starts, we don't even have to send an army, all we require is to hit the button to launch a missile. Within few minutes, the whole country will be wiped out.
I agree with, hope was an important aspect of the book. Hope is very powerful. Hope allows us to get through the most difficulties of times with a positive attitude.
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