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What makes “Hiroshima” a good story? One may think that it is due to all the Modernism characteristics in the plot of the story like the breaking of the traditional values (Characteristics). One may feel that Hersey put his feelings into the story because he was born and raised in the eastern part of the world with the Japanese people and he is at one with them (John Hersey). Compared to poems of Modernism writing, Hersey does not use the same writing style or language that E.E. Cummings does in his poem “Next to of course God America I.” Hersey does a job well done separating himself from others with his writing in the Modernism Literary Period.

John Hersey puts Modernism characteristics into the characters that are in his story “Hiroshima.” There is a huge move in character complexity from any poem that one will read to this story about six people. The character complexity shows when he goes into the way that each person looked and what they were doing all the way up until the atomic explosion (Hersey, John, Characteristics). Another thing that Hersey does to represent Modernism is he has discontinued narratives that have nothing to do with each other, which is a characteristic of Modernism (Characteristics).

John Hersey was born and raised in the eastern part of the world (John Hersey). One may look at that as a biased towards the people that he is covering, but that is not the case at all. He simply covered what they were doing at the time and showed what happened from their point of view. One may make the assumption that because he was from that area of the world, people may have opened up to him more than they would have if it was someone else. John Hersey being from that region probably wanted to right on this topic anyway feeling that somehow things were unjust to the Japanese people affected (John Hersey).

John Hersey stands out with his writing in the story “Hiroshima.” He does not use the usual Modernism characteristics that we see, but he uses the ones that we do not see very often on the other hand. He uses a character complexity and discontinued narratives other than the tone and language differences that we mostly see, like in Cummings “Next to of course God America I (Characteristics).” Hersey stands strong with this type of writing, as it is the same in his novel “The Child Buyer.” He uses the same description and discontinued narratives as he does in “Hiroshima (Bibliofemme).”

In conclusion, John Hersey shows Modernism throughout his entire story entitled “Hiroshima.” Hersey had a background in that culture letting him get the full story from the Japanese civilians. Hersey uses different techniques to show Modernism than that of Cummings or some other authors. Overall, Hersey shows his story and Modernism in a job well done.

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