The First Few Chapters:
I am reading the book Letters From the End: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima of the World by Toyofumi Ogura. This book is a very significant story of the tragic bombing of the Japanese city by the Americans in World War 2. This was very significant because the “atomic bomb” was the first attack of its type.
I chose this book from the first glance at its cover it caught my attention. The cloud from the bomb covered the front of this cover and in the background you see the beautiful sunset with the burned and destroyed city in the foreground. The very ironic cover was only complemented by the interesting title Letters From the End: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima of the World. Once i picked it up and started to actually read it from there I was caught. Ogura actually survived the bombing and this book are the letters he wrote to his deceased wife about it. I found it verry interesting that he actuall formatted the book into letters instead of typical chapters. In the first letter he tells of the initial impact. you can sense his obvious obfuscation when he says “That was a huge lightening bolt!’ then i lost conciousness.” (Ogura 15). Then he later describes his encounters with victims of the initial impact. He tells of their bloody body parts and distorted faces and crushed spirits. The despair was brought upon by their nemesis who obliterated all archetypes of any building in the city. With all the action and drama in the first two letters I cannot wait to read the rest.
I am reading the book Letters From the End: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima of the World by Toyofumi Ogura. This book is a very significant story of the tragic bombing of the Japanese city by the Americans in World War 2. This was very significant because the “atomic bomb” was the first attack of its type.
I chose this book from the first glance at its cover it caught my attention. The cloud from the bomb covered the front of this cover and in the background you see the beautiful sunset with the burned and destroyed city in the foreground. The very ironic cover was only complemented by the interesting title Letters From the End: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima of the World. Once i picked it up and started to actually read it from there I was caught. Ogura actually survived the bombing and this book are the letters he wrote to his deceased wife about it. I found it verry interesting that he actuall formatted the book into letters instead of typical chapters. In the first letter he tells of the initial impact. you can sense his obvious obfuscation when he says “That was a huge lightening bolt!’ then i lost conciousness.” (Ogura 15). Then he later describes his encounters with victims of the initial impact. He tells of their bloody body parts and distorted faces and crushed spirits. The despair was brought upon by their nemesis who obliterated all archetypes of any building in the city. With all the action and drama in the first two letters I cannot wait to read the rest.
