Hersey Wrote, “A Surprising Number of the People of Hiroshima Remained More or Less Indifferent About the Ethi?
Question by Carlisle: Hersey wrote, “A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethi?
This is part of the book “Hiroshima”, and I need help with it. I have barely any clue what to respond. Please help it’s the last part of my project before I can turn it in!
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Answer by dizwar
the quote:
“A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethics of using the bomb.”
a possible response (it’s four paragraphs, but you can combine them to make one big paragraph, if you want):
I am not surprised that many people felt this way. People react to disasters in a wide variety of ways. Some people become hysterical. They cry and scream, and they say curses, and they make threats. It is easy to understand why these people feel this way.
If you destroy someone’s life and land, you create a living nightmare for the survivors. To cope with this nightmare, some people become numb. They seem like they feel calm, but they don’t really feel that way. They are alive, but almost unconscious as they do their work, clean their houses, cook their food, and apparently go on with their lives.
They close off their mind to the pain, because they can cope better that way. They don’t want to think about the pain. They don’t want to see pictures that make them cry. They don’t want to watch movies that remind them of their pain and their losses. They don’t want to read about their sad situation. They want to completely stop remembering and thinking about their grief.
This is how some people deal with sadness and tragedy, and nobody can say it’s the wrong way. It’s the right way for some people, and everybody else just has to accept it and respect it.
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