"BECAUSE so many people were suddenly feeling sick nearly a month after the atomic bomb was dropped, as unpleasant rumor began to move around, and eventually it made its way to the house in Kabe where Mrs. Nakamura lay bald and ill. It was that the atomic bomb had deposited some sort of poison on Hiroshima which would give off deadly emanations for seven years; nobody could go there all that time. This especially upset Mrs. Nakamura, who remembered that in a moment of confusion on the morning of the explosion she had literally sunk her entire means of livelihood, her Sankoku sewing machine, in the small cement water tank in front of what was left of her house; now no one would be able to go and fish it out. Up to this time, Mrs. Nakamura and her relatives had been quite resigned and passive about the moral issue if the atomic bomb, but this rumor suddenly aroused them to more hatred and resentment of America than they had felt all through the war." (p.72)
Could this paragraph be divided into at least two smaller paragraphs? Leave a comment to address this question and explain your position.
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This passage could be divided to three paragraphs.
The first paragraph is “BECAUSE so many people were suddenly feeling sick nearly a month after the atomic bomb was dropped, an unpleasant rumor began to move around, and eventually it made its way to the house in Kabe where Mrs. Nakamura lay bald and ill. It was that the atomic bomb had deposited some sort of poison on Hiroshima which would give off deadly emanations for seven years; nobody could go there all that time.” This paragraph is about the rumor that spread through Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
The second paragraph is: “This especially upset Mrs. Nakamura, who remembered that in a moment of confusion on the morning of the explosion she had literally sunk her entire means of livelihood, her Sankoku sewing machine, in the small cement water tank in front of what was left of her house; now no one would be able to go and fish it out.” This paragraph is about Mrs. Nakamura’s sewing machine and how her feeling was.
The third paragraph is: “Up to this time, Mrs. Nakamura and her relatives had been quite resigned and passive about the moral issue of the atomic bomb, but this rumor suddenly aroused them to more hatred and resentment of America than they had felt all through the war.” This paragraph is about the rumor and how they feel about it.
Actually, I also found that this paragraph didn’t copy exactly from the novel. What would it be?
I think this paragraph could be divided into two smaller paragraphs. The first paragraph is “BECAUSE so many people were…there all that time.” This paragraph is talk about what the atomic bomb had brought. The second smaller paragraph is “This especially upset Mrs. Nakamura…they had felt all through the war.” This paragraph is talk about Mrs. Nakamuraand her relatives’s feeling about the atomic bomb. Therefore, this paragraph could be divided into two smaller paragraphs.
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