The second half of the course focused on American Film Noir – a famous Hollywood film genre/style. Plus, it is fun to do a reading collage, a writing portfolio, or short “report” videos for the future workshops. But for the limited time budget, I wish there were Mid-term/Final essays or Reaction papers as in the intended syllabus. Taking the opportunity to prepare and present the assigned stories, we marched into the rigorous classroom discussion. “Should and how do we insert a particular narrative into the class discussion?” “Is it too long or too short for the task at hand?”, “How can we make it attractive to the students?”, “What background information do the students need?”, “Should films be a medium for teaching in a literature classroom?” So on. At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, knocking out the city dwellers among them six witnesses. The city had preparations such as trenches, shelters, and public radio speakers however, the alerts repeated daily just reacting to American weather jets.
There had been warnings that Hiroshima, an important seaport and industrial powerhouse, would come next in the American bombing list, and that it would receive a “special treatment” from the Americans. Surprisingly, everybody was calm on that morning. Each of these witnesses, with his or her geographical surroundings and distance from the ground zero, is described in details, from action to mental state. The author interviewed many witnesses and survivors, focusing mainly on six people: a German priest and five Japanese citizens (a Red-cross doctor, a private doctor, a female clerk, a Protestant pastor, and a tailor’s widow.) The six people were doing their daily rituals when a noiseless blinding flash in the sky wiped out their families, their peaceful neighborhood.
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