The book I am reading is called Hiroshima by John Hersey. It is about how the inhabitants of Hiroshima, a city in Japan, appeared after a nuclear bomb dropped on the city. Only seven people that experienced the bomb remember the full story and the moment before it hit. The author interviewed them and asked them about the people who were injured and what Hiroshima looked like after the bomb dropped. Lots and lots of people were killed and injured. And people did not even know what they had witnessed until they were told. Only when the bomb dropped, there was a white light across the city. Two words in this book that are not known or recognized by a lot of people are:
1. Embankment: A wall to protect a river from flooding an area.
"Down the embankment at a shallow, rocky place."
2.Reverend: A member of the clergy.
"The Reverend Mr. Tanimoto got up at five o'clock that morning."
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