Journal Seven: Trey Maynard

Dr. Sasaki has been the most interesting character in the book so far. He is a doctor that is undergoing survivor's guilt for getting out of the bombing virtually unharmed. He is a Red Cross doctor. The situation has revealed that he is a man of empathy, duty, and determination. We see this when he goes from trying to save the badly wounded because he feels a sense of duty to them for telling him he will save them then, after talking to the other doctor, he realizes he needs to help the least wounded first. A passage that stuck with me is "Dr. Sasaki lost all sense of profession and stopped working as a skillful surgeon and a sympathetic man; he became an automaton, mechanically wiping , daubing, winding, wiping, winding, wiping, daubing, winding."

Research Question: Death toll of Hiroshima vs. Nagasaki

Nagasaki had a much smaller death count than Hiroshima. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are about 200 miles away from each other, possibly to maximize radiation drift. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were both high population cities. The bombs were dropped 3 days apart. Hiroshima was more densely populated than Nagasaki, so this could have led to a higher death toll.