Not an easy subject to teach. Two possibly useful picture books are Sadako and the Thousand Cranes and Hiroshima no Pika. I don't really remember what I thought about the bombs before meeting Hershey's Hiroshima in college and taking a Japanese history course -- which probably means I didn't think about it much. I was more worried, growing up in Cold War Washington, DC, about the bombs targeting me.
My main interpretation for the fire is lightning from the sort of thunderstorm with a strong gust-front, with a side order of it being possibly metaphor for the relationship that's falling apart in the verses.
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Date: 19 December 2010 03:04 pm (UTC)Not an easy subject to teach. Two possibly useful picture books are Sadako and the Thousand Cranes and Hiroshima no Pika. I don't really remember what I thought about the bombs before meeting Hershey's Hiroshima in college and taking a Japanese history course -- which probably means I didn't think about it much. I was more worried, growing up in Cold War Washington, DC, about the bombs targeting me.
My main interpretation for the fire is lightning from the sort of thunderstorm with a strong gust-front, with a side order of it being possibly metaphor for the relationship that's falling apart in the verses.
---L.