Reading literature about such themes and responding to them through journal writing can offer adults and youth valuable learning opportunities. Hiroshima by Laurence Yep . There is a blinding light like the sun. There is a boom like a giant drum. There is a terrible wind.
Houses collapse like boxes.
Windows break everywhere. Broken glass swirls like angry insects. Yep uses simple prose to craft a powerful novella. Her mother later discovers Riko's younger sister, Sachi, under a pile of bodies of schoolchildren. Sachi sustained terrible burns on her face and cannot smile.