Hiroshima英文赏析

Hiroshima英文赏析
Hiroshima ―the“Liveliest”City in Japan Hiroshima ―the“Liveliest”City in Japan is a radio report which describes the author’s experience visited the first city suffered from the atomic bomb in the world——Hiroshima. The story beginning with the author’s arrival at the railway station .The author does not try to conceal his emotions about the city or his attitude toward the atomic bomb. In the very first paragraph he says , “I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind.”He asked, “Was I not at the scene of the crime?” On his way to his destination he observed the crowds of Japanese. At the reception, the author excepted the mayor to talk about the atomic bomb and its tragic impact. To his great surprise, the mayor referred to Hiroshima as the “Liveliest city in Japan.”The puzzled author was told by an elderly Japanese man that there were two schools of thought in Hiroshima about the bomb. With many prepared questions, the author visited the atomic bomb victims and came to his conclusion about Hiroshima.
From this whole passage, we can know the main idea of this story is about the dual characters of Hiroshima, the coexistence of liveliness and bidden pains, the result of the nuclear bombardment. Besides, the theme that the author wanted to express is obvious. It tells us that even though some Japanese try their best to forget the humiliating past and construct a new and energetic city, but history is
what it is, which is the thing can never forget.
This passage is a narration which uses the rhetoric of metaphor、synecdoche、metonymy、parallelism and euphemism . Metaphor, for example, “And secondly, because I
had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say.”(L.5,Para.1) Synecdoche and metonymy, for example, “The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.” (L.5,Para.7) Parallelism , like “…and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the first atomic bombardment ,where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second ,where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony.”(L.3,Para.9) Euphemism, for example, “Every day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird , and add it to the others.” (L.1,Para.38) These rhetoric make the passage become clear and vivid, and help the readers easier to understand this essay. Apart from the rhetoric, the language features are fabulous, such as the effective use of specific words and expressions concerning varied emotions and the effective use of formal、learned and scientific words. Both of them make the passage more factual and logic.
After learning this passage, I have known more about the atom’s effects and its sufferings to human beings. Bu t at the same time, I still have some questions about the passage. For instance, why there is a description about the taxi driver and the woman at the door, and why the mayor thought Hiroshima is the “Liveliest”city. What’s more, I don’t know why the autho r prepared questions but didn’t ask the victims at last.。