Hiroshima 6
Hiroshima 6In the book Hiroshima, John Hersey introduced Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a young woman who lived in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On that day, Miss Sasaki's life was forever changed.
The adversities that Miss Sasaki faced brought changes to her life. Her parents had died in the bombing but her brother and sister survived. She had to take care of both of them by herself. She got a job as an attendant at an orphanage after enrolling her brother and sister there. She received child care training and eventually qualified to be a nursery school teacher. Miss Sasaki's leg was injured after the bombing. After recuperating, she could walk normally again. However, her leg would give her pain for the rest of her life. Miss Sasaki, once engaged, was single again. Her fiance did not want to marry her because she was a hibakusha and a cripple.
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