My Story
In english class we all had to write our own stories and put them in a contest. The theme was a “journey”. When I heard this I thought a journey like a voyage across the ocean, but the word “journey” can mean other things too. For example life and death or a story of a mans life. I think I did well because I used an event that happened in the past and I made it a journey about an old mans childhood when he has a flashback. Here is my story.
Breakfast in Hiroshima
By Robin Kennedy
Hachiro Tanaka went for a walk in the Hiroshima Peace Park in the morning with his grandson named Kenji. When they were looking at the dome his grandson Kenji said Grandpa Hachiro its time for breakfast. The moment he heard those words he had a flash back to when he was only about 11 years old. “Hachiro, time for breakfast.” “Coming mom.”
Hachiro came down to the living room and sat at the table. Then he looked at his calendar today was August 6th, 1945.
“Oh man, only hot water again.”
“Well you know we can’t afford any food right now.”
Said Hachiro’s mom. Hachiro quickly finished his breakfast of hot water and started walking to school. Today was different around 8 o’ clock the bomb alarms went off. Hachiro and his class quickly hid under their desks. Hachiro saw a plane flying over Hiroshima, and then a black missile like object dropped from the plane. When it hit the ground a huge blinding flash of light spread though the city of Hiroshima and the whole school was destroyed just in one flash of light. At that moment Hachiro knew that this was not a normal bomb, but he had never seen anything or heard of anything like this. The whole school was burned and destroyed, the whole city was destroyed, and all of his classmates were dead, burned alive! When Hachiro tried to stand up his whole body ached as if a thousand hammers were banging on him. The air was hot as if he was burning up. He fell to the ground and tried again. Even though his body ached but he managed to stand up.
Hachiro walked out of the school and looked at the city all he saw was a destroyed city and corpses of people who were killed in this horrible life-taking event. Hachiro’s instinct was to go check if his family had made it. He walked as fast as he could towards his house. When he got to the remains of his house there was nothing. He thought his parents and his families were all dead but then he heard his mother scream“help”.
His mom was trapped under a burning log almost half of her body was burned away! When Hachiro tried to lift the log she screamed and said “just leave me here, you must go and survive. You have a whole life to live, but mine is over.”
Hachiro burst into tears he didn’t want to leave his mother. He tried lifting the log again but then another part of the house fell on top of his mother. She had died before Hachiro could even say goodbye.
Hachiro was so sad. He tried to run as fast as his feet could carry him but soon he collapsed, everything went black. When he woke up he was put in a pile of dead people about to be burned. Hachure screamed and shot forward and fell to the ground. A soldier picked him up and said, “Your alive, I can’t believe it!”
The soldier rubbed his head but then when he took his hand off Hachiro’s head some of his hair had fallen out! Hachiro had gotten radiation sickness! He put on a hat and fell asleep. When he woke up all his hair fallen out and it was in the hat. Hachiro had become bald. He put his hat back on and started walking. He was not planning to go so far but he went for a walk in the holding bay for the victims of the atom bomb. When he looked around he felt very lucky that he only hurt his head because he saw people with their whole body wrapped up with bandages, people who had lost body parts, people very badly burned. Hachiro got scared and walked away. After a while when his head got better he was aloud to leave the holding bay. He went for a walk around the city he noticed that the only building standing was the dome.
That was when he flashed back. His grandson was tugging on his shirt and saying “Grandpa Hachiro it’s time for breakfast.”
Hachiro and his grandson Kenji walked back to his house and had a very good breakfast.
The End
I hope you liked it.
