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How does Hersey describe the ruins of Hiroshima? What imagery is used?
Hersey describes the ruins of Hiroshima as Miss Sasaki is driven through as awesome and shocking. The ruin of the city is thorough. However, he evokes an amazing sense of the new growth by listing off the many different types of plants that seem to have been stimulated by the explosion. This evokes a sense of how lush it looked in a formerly urban environment.
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Why might have the greenery in the ruins given Miss Sasaki "the creeps?"
The greenery is a sign of lush and thriving life, which is a contrast to the devastation of the human lives and bodies destroyed by the bomb. Though it can only be...
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