Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes was a book about an 11 year old girl, Sadako Sasaki,who live in Hiroshima,Japan from 1943-1955. In 1945, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima. 9 years later, Sadako found out that the chemicals from the atom bomb have affected her. While she was running in the big race on feild day, she noticed these strange dizzy spells. Mostly she would just shake them off, until one day she was running outside at school, she had another one of her dizzy spells and because of it, she fainted. Her teacher told Sadako's youger sister, Mitsue, to run and get their parents. Mr. and Mrs.Sasaki took their daughter to the hospital. After a few tests, the doctors then declared that Sadako had luekemia!
This book has so many stegnths that I cannot name them all. One of them is that it had EXCELLENT discription. Because this book had such EXCELLENT discription, this book gave you MAGNIFICANT visualization. It made you feel as if you were right there at Peace Day, helping Sadako make the paper cranes, touching the golden crane, and crying with Sadako's family watching her slowly fade away to heaven. I found no weaknesses in this book!
I would definetly reccomend this book to everyone. This story is both sad and happy at the same time.It is so touching that she was more worried about her family than herself dying.
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