esented in a way that makes the reader stand in their shoes and consider the same questions that haunt them:
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts on many small items of chance or volition--a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next--that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything (Hersey 4).
These six did have some warning, but by this time in the war air raid warnings were meaningless. They were heard all the time without there being any bombings. At the same time, rumors circulated "that the Americans were saving something special for the c
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