John Hersey’s book Hiroshima tells the story of the Japanese fallout from the first atomic bomb, dropped by the Americans during World War II, from the perspective of six survivors. He traveled to Japan to interview these individuals who could voice their personal experiences of the bombing before creating the book. Hersey decided to base the overall theme and the story through the eyes of these six survivors to portray the gruesome images of Hiroshima before and after the bombing. This resulted in the creation of a descriptive and realistic story of the 1945 Hiroshima disaster. The story begins to describe the destruction and aftermath of the atomic bomb almost immediately as the book begins. Hersey introduces the main characters of the book
