Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Study Guide mccurangell

Main Characters: Sadako Sasaki;Mashahiro Sasaki; Chizuko, Mrs. Sasaki; Minor Characters: Eiji;Mitsue,Nurse Yasunaga

In the beginning of her life, when Sadako was 2 years old, the Americans dropped the atom bomb on her city, Hiroshima. In the middle of her story, she was 10 years old. She developed leukemia or bone cancer from the atom bomb's radiation. She had to live in the hospital. Her family came to cheer her up. Her friends came to cheer her up. Her friend Chizuko recalled the legend that if you made 1000 origami paper cranes you would be well again. Masahiro promised to hang up the cranes if she made them. She loved the golden crane. Mrs. Sasaki liked the little green crane with pink parasols. Sadako made 644 and finally died from leukemia at 12 years old after much suffering.

1955

Hiroshima, Japan

On 12/7/1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Many ships were destroyed and many people died. The United States entered World War II then. They were with the Allies. The Allies were Great Britain, the United States, France and Russia. They were against the Axis powers. The Axis powers were Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy. The Nazis were very close to having their own atom bomb. The Americans created it first. They dropped the bomb on Japan to stop the war and avoid having a bomb dropped on them. All the Axis powers said it was time to stop the war then.

atom bomb, radiation, radiation sickness, cancer, death, destruction, ruination

Subatomic particle in the nucleus of the atom. Mass = 0 because it is so tiny. Charge = -1

This is a subatomic particle in the nucleus of an atom. Mass = 1 Charge = +1

This is a subatomic particle in the nucleus of an atom. Mass = 1. Charge = +1

protons, neutrons, and electrons that are the pieces of living things like animals, and non-living things like rocks.

Every atom makes elements. There are 92 elements natural elements. There are 16 man made elements. Mix elements which have atoms to make things we use everyday.

intense energy

divide

Organized information of all the elements nature and man made to describe what things are made of. It is like nature's shopping list and you make the cakes when you make materials when you mix them.

The science that studies how things act when they are mixed and what they are made of.

The cause of the bomb was a charge to cause the atoms to split. When the atoms, with the neutrons, electrons,protons with their elements, split then there was an explosion.

There was sickness to Asian people, and poison to the environment in Japan. There was victory for the Allies and the end of World War II for everyone.

Chernyobyl, Ukraine meltdown.

epilogue

Japan today