Atomic Bobm and Hiroshima

Expository Essay

Question –discuss how the creator if at least one expository text you have read presents certain ideas to the audience

By Ryan Allen

“Despite the vision and the far-seeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists felt a peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting , for supporting and in the end , in large measure , for a achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons, as they were in fact used, dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humour, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot loose”

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Throughout the history of humanity, power and race has been changed and manipulated into a way we see fit, it has been incredibly influential in conditioning us to believe our own set of bias regardless of whether it is true or not. Propaganda is one such example that is used to such effect, the Japanese thought their military might was unmatched compared to their neighbouring countries; this information was disproved within the space of a few minutes during the Japanese Emperor’s surrender telecast that was broadcasted around Japan. The small segments showed from John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’ and Alison Fell’s “August 6 1945”shows how the authors uses setting, characterisation and descriptive language to present the audience with ideas relating to the text.

America became ruthless and started to become less concerned on the welfare of the Japanese people and more concerned about showing the world its destructive domination. Characterisation is used to better understand the struggle of the common Japanese people during world war two and the start of the lethal atomic age. In Fells “August 6 1945” Americans as a country is charactered of dehumanising the Japanese’s race, instead of seeing them as a human they describe them to be lesser people or even animals. “Where the people are become as lizards or salamanders”.