Hiroshima paper, the Chugoku Shimbun. Finally, the last job she had until she was retired, she helped wrapping the product of Paragen in its packages in Suyama
Chemical for thirteen years.
4.1.3.6 The Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
Mr. Tanimoto was a small man, his black hair parted in the middle and rather long, he had prominence frontal bones just above his eyebrows, and he had a small
mustache. He was quick to talk, laugh, and cry. He moved nervously and fast. He spoke excellent English and dressed in American clothes.
He was a pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church and took on the chairmanship of his local Neighborhood Association. He had studied theology and
graduated in 1940 from Emory College, in Atlanta, Georgia. By 1955, Mr. Tanimoto’s family is consisted of his wife, Chisa, his ten years old daughter, Koko,
seven years old son, Ken, four years old daughter, Jun, and two years old son, Shin.
4.1.4 Setting
John Hersey’s Hiroshima is written in a chronological order. The story starts on August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan. The
atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima at exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945. Then, the series of event in Hersey’s Hiroshima is
chronologically written until forty years after that. The story takes place in Hiroshima, Japan, when the World War II is at the highest peak of confrontation. It
makes the story has typical war background, like planes, fire, and soldiers.
4.1.5 Point of View
There are six main characters in John Hersey’s Hiroshima and reader gets to know each character’s actions and minds. Hersey also gives elaboration about things
that are not involving the six characters. The passage below is one example that is
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not involving either the six main characters. Instead, it is the dialogue between Father Kleinsorge’s colleague and a theological student.
[…] Father LaSalle lay down and went right to sleep. The theological student, who was wearing slippers, had carried with him
a bundle of clothes, in which he had packed two pairs of leather shoes. When he sat down with the others, he found that the bundle
had broken open and a couple of retraced his steps and found one right. When he rejoined the priests, he said, “It’s funny, but things
don’t matter possessions. Today, I don’t care. One pair is enough.”
Father Cieslik said, “I know. I started to bring my books along, and then I thought, ‘This is no time for books.’”
Hersey: 36 It indicates that Hersey’s Hiroshima uses the third person point of view and
specifically Hersey acts as omniscient narrator who know all the things that are happened in Hiroshima.
4.2 The Impact of Narrative to Journalistic Works as Seen through John Hersey’s Hiroshima
Beside as a journalistic work, John Hersey’s Hiroshima is also a narrative because it has every narrative structure in it. Below is the analysis of the impact of
narrative to journalistic works as seen through John Hersey’s Hiroshima.
4.2.1 Narrative Makes the Story is Like a Novel
Reading a literary journalistic work, in this case is John Hersey’s Hiroshima, is more like reading a novel instead of plain old news on newspaper. Kurnia 2002:
32 says that Tom Wolfe in his book, The New Journalism, entitles the second part of his introduction by ‘Like a Novel’. In early 1960s, novel got its high place in the
society and it influenced journalistic works to adopt literature writing style. Aziez and Hasim 2010: viii show that novel contains of character, plot, structure, setting,
theme, dialogue, narrator, and image. Below are the elaborations on each elements of
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