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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