I'm currently on page 392. This week I've read a lot since it has changed what it talks about. This book has gotten significantly darker and most people won't be able to read this book since it has gotten very dark. This book has started to talk about what they do to their prisoners both the Japaneses and the Americans. The Japaneses killed people that they had captured. They made them dig their own grave and they were killed in different ways. One of the fly boys that got captured was marched up a hill and told to kneel along side his grave. The location of where it was was where many people got killed. This person had a Japaneses person take a sword and trying to cut off his head. He got most of the way through and his head was being held on by a little bit of neck skin that held the head still on. If he stood up the head would be dangling down in front of him and would still be attached. They then buried his body and left him their. The next day a commander needed a higher end meal to serve so he ordered people to go and get the body and cook it. They had some soldiers go over and dig him up and then have the doctor go and cut out his internal organs and serve them to the commanders. There was another fly boy that got murder was by having him tied to a tree and had the young soldiers stab him repeatedly with sharpened sticks of bamboo. They wouldn’t stop and just keep going, when the young ones were done the older warriors went in and finished killing him with a bayonet, they also stabbed him repeatedly. The entire time this took was about five minutes, where the fly boy was awake and alive for some of it. Another time that this story got darker was when the Americans went in to bomb Tokyo. They used B-29s to drop the bombs on the people, there were 339 B-29s and they dropped 8519 five hundred pounds bombs. The Americans dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo which caused a large fire to spread. The fire was over eighteen hundred degrees fahrenheit. In the book it says that ”Rivers of fire flowed down the streets. Canals boiled and humans burst spontaneously into flames, blazing like matchsticks. People’s heads exploded in the heat, the liquid brains in their burst kulls bubbling an eerie fluorescence. The feet of the fleeing masses scrunched eyeballs that had popped from sockets under pressure.” this shows how many bombs were being dropped from the airplanes and what was happening to the people on the ground in the village. There was also another line that said the Miho Yoskioka was running for a temple and thought she saw deities but when she got inside realized that they were just burned bodies that were still standing up. In the past week the story has gotten a lot darker and what is being said in it some people wouldn’t be able to read since it goes into detail and talks about each thing (like the beheading and the bombing) for extended periods. It also gives detail from multiple people in the area and what they were going through.
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This week I had to read 96 pages which I read more than that this week. I was on page 193 last week and read to page 292 this week. Currently going on in my book they are talking about starting bombing Japan and what they were doing for bombing. They just started bombing Japan near where I finished reading. "Grady always smiled when he talked. But at that moment he wasn't smiling." This
In the past week I've read from page 96 to page 193. This book talks about some of the darker things that happened during World War II. It makes any enemy seem terrible and that they try to torture us and when we do the same thing back to someone else it says that it is our right to do it and that the enemy deserves it. An example of it is "When U.S. prisoners were killed, it was 'murder in flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions.' But when Americans murder Others, 'they had it coming to them.'" This shows that Americans think they are above what the rules state. Also they don't like people doing the same thing they do to other people. When it happens to them they think that is murder while when we do it to other people we say that they have it coming. Some of the things that we did the the Japanese that got shot down and were in the water was that we shot them. While they were parachuting down aircraft or people on the ground would shot them. While some people were in life boats a submarine came up and shot the survivors that were in the water. A different time they had airplanes come and strafe the people in the water. Strafing is when an airplane comes in and shoots what is on the ground. They made a sport out of shooting the people in the water. The cameras that they have on the airplane noses recorded what they did, they then put it into a movie and went and showed it to people. They enjoyed it while eating popcorn thinking that it was something that they could enjoy, they had a narrator talking about what they were doing and that the pilots were doing a good job. The Americans had a poster with a girl writing a note to her boyfriend and a skull in it. The poster was talking about how she was writing a thank you note to her boyfriend for the skull that he sent her. It was a skull from a captured japanese fighter. Another thing that the americans did to a captured person was taking a large knife and tried to cut out his teeth. He has his knife on his teeth and slipped and stabbed him in the back of the mouth. The American then cut him from the cheeks to the ears on both sides. He then went back to trying to cut out his teeth while standing on his neck. Another American came up and shot the person that was getting tortured and the other one kept going. The didn’t show this as torture to the american people they showed this as something that should be praised since they are getting rid of the enemy. This book is a book that is hard to read. It is hard to read since it doesn’t capture people’s attention. Since it is hard to read this book then it is hard for me to reach my reading goal. This book is just telling facts which I normally like reading if the author is able to present it in an interesting way. James Bradley (author of Flyboys) doesn’t write this book in a way that would capture someone's attention and keep it so they would want to keep reading it and finish it as quickly as they can.
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