novel according to Aziez and Hasim. There are no elaboration on character, plot, setting, and narrator because those elements have been explained in the previous
point.
4.2.1.1 Structure
In its first publication in 1946, Hersey’s Hiroshima is divided in four chapters. Every chapter is consists of six different focuses according to the six main
characters. Almost four decades later, thirty-nine years later to be exact, Hersey came back to the city of Hiroshima and wrote ‘The Aftermath’, the last chapter in the new
publication of Hersey’s Hiroshima. It is still divided in six parts, describes the recent conditions of the six main characters.
Structure in Hiroshima is obvious from the five chapters they are divided. The story is written chronologically like A-B-C-D, instead of D-C-B-A or even D-A-
B-C. Chapter one is entitled ‘A Noiseless Flash’. The narrator describes the
moment of the blast. There are six characters’ sides of story which are told in separate parts. Each of them has their own story before and during the bomb is
dropped. Chapter two is entitled ‘The Fire’. The narrator describes the devastation that is experienced by the city immediately after the blast. Chapter three is entitled
‘Details are Being Investigated’. The narrator describes the rampant rumors throughout the city about what had happened, while the hibakusha provide help and
comfort to one another. Chapter four is entitled ‘Panic Grass and Feverfew’. The narrator describes the weeks after the attack, as the hibakusha attempt to rebuild their
lives. The blast and radiation effects induced the anomaly to their health and hampered their readjustment to normal lives. Chapter five is entitled ‘The
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Aftermath’. The narrator describes the lives and death of the six main characters after Hersey came back to Hiroshima almost four decades later.
4.2.1.2 Theme The theme of Hersey’s Hiroshima is atomic bomb victims’ survival.
Written one year after the first atomic bombs were ever dropped on civilians, Hersey focused
on how the six main characters survived the explosion and what lives they got through even after forty years later when he came back to write the final chapter.
4.2.1.3 Dialogue
