Hiroshima JOHN HERSEY 英语读后感

After reading John Hersey’s book, Hiroshima, I feel very sympathetic towards the innocent citizens of that city in the 1940s. And it is the humanity’s most heinous crime, in my opinion. The behavior of six survivors in the atomic disaster is worthy of admiration in such an emergency. Among them there is one person who gives me a strong impression ——she is Mrs. Nakamura——a mother with three young children: a ten-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and a five-year-old girl. Her excellent virtue and qualities are the typical symbols of tender Japanese women in that contemporary society, which are also the spiritual wealth for us to learn from forever. Firstly, I amaze at Mrs. Nakamura’s courage and living belief of confronting the pain and misery continuous wars and the atomic bombardment brought to her. As we all know, her husband killed in the cruel battle of Singapore, the war made her become a widow and destroyed her happy family. Hearing this bad news, she must had been torn with grief, sorrow and depressed. However, although she suffered so much misfortune, she still kept calm and brought up the young children as usual, which may be one aim and one single purpose of the rest life of a mother, a Japanese mother. In order to support the whole family, she herself had to bear up the heavy burden. She, Mrs. Nakamura, got out the sewing machine——her husband’s only capital——to take in piecework and to make a tough living. It must take her enormous nerve and willpower to be fight against the miserable life. I appreciated and thought highly of Mrs. Nakamura spirits and courage to face the unfortunate life. Secondly, as far as I’m concerned, Mrs. Nakamura is an extraordinary mother. That the atomic cataclysm happened left her nothing, except her three children and the ruins of their only house. Mrs. Nakamura’s mother, brother and older sister, who had lived in the part of town, were all dead. She, with her three children, had to move in her sister-in-law’s home, dependent on the charity of other people. During the wartime, to a single mother with three children, it is no doubt the way to the future was filled with potential danger, unknown difficulties and more social pressure , which was the biggest problem at that moment for this poor mother. It was deep-rooted love for her children that made her go to her length to do anything she could to survive , to be the father and the mother of her three children to raise the whole family, to protect her children from harms, to see them grow up healthily and happily until they became useful persons. In the text, it mentioned that she rent a new wooden house, cleared the rooms, planted a vegetable garden, sewed clothes for others, sent children to school……The Japanese lady’s action let me have a deep understanding the greatness of motherhood Thirdly, through Mrs. Nakamura’s action during the atomic bomb, many precious qualities were manifested: her kind and warm heart in face of danger, the possession of brilliant judgment, loyalty to her country. For example, in Chapter 3 of this book, I was deeply moved by a plot, Mrs. Nakamoto, whose daughter was cut badly, asked Mrs. Nakamura for some bandage. Without considering her own safety, she crawled into the ruins of her house and pulled out white cloth for Mrs. Nakamoto. What’s more important, thanks to her sensible judgment and courageous choice, three children were rescued from the ruins in time because she made a choice during the process of the most important rescued action. That is to save another one child who was in more terrible situation instead of saving her youngest child firstly. This brave action rescued all of the three children. Last but not least, she was very loyal to her country. Although she lost her husband and sacrificed the happy family to the safety of the country, she still loved her motherland. Even after the war was over, she just gave up the thought that Japan still had a chance to win the war……To a nutshell, in my opinion, Mrs. Nakamura is a very kind and warm-hearted woman for others, a courageous and extraordinary mother for her three children, a brave and stanch person for the miserable life, a loyal and patriotic citizen for her country.