This book was written like a book report, having no emotion or any sense of empathy, which overall makes it difficult to read. Using the stories of six characters who survived the initial explosion, John Hersey creates an abbreviated account of the bombing using themes of survival, total warfare, and gruesome images. I found Hersey's account of the bombing hard to read for a few reasons, such as how the six stories are not all interconnected, the unemotional mood, the fact that it is based on such a depressing tragedy, and the ending message.
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