On August 6th, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan was devastated by the first atom bomb dropped on a city. John Hersey tells the true accounts of six survivors and their recollections of life before, during and after, the incomparable devastation. Hersey's book, "Hiroshima," describes the effects on their lives, family, how they had to change the way they lived, and also how they viewed their life. Even though I have found there to be more differences in the characters, there are also a couple things that allow them to connect, and be similar. Miss Toshika Sasika, unlike most other characters in the book, found her calling from the bomb. She became deeper in her faith and became a nun because of the bomb, and that is different from other characters. I, also, think she suffered more from the bomb than anyone else. She lost her leg, her husband, and had to be in the hospital for fourteen months. She is also different because she cannot help others physically like some of the other people in the book, but like the other characters, she doesn’t give up hope. She looks for other possibilities even after she has been through life-changing events. I think she is most similar to Father Kleinsorge, because they both help people in the spiritual side of life. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was different from all the other characters because I feel like she lost the most. After reading the book I felt the most sympathy for her, due to the fact her husband died, she is raising three kids, and while only using her husband’s sewing machine, struggles with income before and after the bomb. She was the only one in the book in charge of running a family by herself. She is also the only one that struggles with poverty because of the war, which makes her hate America. I think she is very similar to Sasika because they both have the idea of “Shikata ga nai," or it cannot be helped. Both prove to be very strong and courageous women that fight through adversity and sim