How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"He'll die. All these bomb people die—you'll see. They go along for a couple of weeks and then they die." (4.13).
Father Kleinsorge overheard his doctor saying this to someone else outside his room. He went on to prove the doc very wrong—go get 'em, Father K.
Quote #8
Late in February, 1946, a friend of Miss Sasaki's called on Father Kleinsorge and asked him to visit her in the hospital. She had been growing more and more depressed and morbid; she seemed little interested in living. Father Kleinsorge went to see her several times. On his first visit, he kept the conversation general, formal, and yet vaguely sympathetic, and did not mention religion. Miss Sasaki herself brought it up the second time he dropped in on her. Evidently she had had some talks with a Catholic. She asked bluntly, "If your God is so good and kind, how can he let people suffer like this?" She made a gesture which took in her shrunken leg, the other patients in her room, and Hiroshima as a whole. (4.26)
In the wake of her injuries and losing her family members in he blast, Miss Sasaki was pretty down on life and "morbid." However, Father Kleinsorge was apparently able to snap her out of it.
Quote #9
In referring to those who went through the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Japanese tended to shy away from the term "survivors," because in its focus on being alive it might suggest some slight to the sacred dead. (5.4)
Hersey makes a couple of references to the Japanese culture's reverence for the dead, which here seems to have really shaped how people who survived the attack wanted to identify themselves or think about themselves as exceptional.