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After The Bomb Essay Research Paper

After The Bomb Essay, Research Paper


- Book Summary


After the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling


novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which


supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding


cities are all altered by the disastrous happening. Philip Singer a


teenager is in a position as leader of the family. His brother Matt is


awfully sick, possibly from radiation, his father was away at work


during the blast and for all Philip knows he might be dead, and his


mother was desperately injured and needs immediate attention.


Hospitals are flooded with injured and dying people and the government


doesn’t send help for a few days. The badly injured don’t even get the


chance to be helped because the hospitals have to send the ones that


are likely going to live to hospitals that specialize in burns. His


mother is so badly burned that the hospitals put her on the bottom of


the list to be flown to burn centers. By the end of the novel Philip


has taken charge, snuck his mom ahead to be flown to a burn center,


and in a sense saved his town from thirst. He truly survived the


terror, shock, and danger of the bomb.


The novel goes through a couple of settings such as, Philip’s


struggle to keep his family alive, and the conflict between the nature


of a nuclear bomb against the Los Angeles area. When the bomb hits he


is playing around in a playroom shelter with his brother and his


girlfriend. They go out to find out what had happened and found


burning houses, their house only left with one wall, rubble on the


ground, debris all over the place, and people running frantically for


shelter. Philip’s brother became sick after finding his mother and


bringing her back down to the shelter, and found that his mother had


been burnt severely and needed immediate medical attention. Philip


struggles to keep his brother from getting even more sick than he was


and to bring his mother to a hospital. Philip’s family weren’t the


only people affected by the bomb. the entire surrounding area of Los


Angeles was pounded by a devastating bomb. Churches, Hospitals, a

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streets were flooded with sick, dying, and even dead people.


Hospitals that were built to only withstand 200 people now have


thousands, and hospitals lack food, doctors, and water. Philip’s


struggle for survival, and the devastating blow against L.A. was only


the beginning of the disastrous bomb.


The setting is practically the whole plot of the novel showing


Philip’s struggle to get his mother to a burn center that could save


her life, bring his family to safety, and to save his town from


thirst. When Philip arrives at the hospital with his mom the


government and hospital had already started flying patients to burn


centers, but his mom was too sick and burnt so the hospital didn’t


care for her. She was placed on the bottom of list to be flown away.


Philip secretly switches the tag on her mom with one that says and


earlier number so that she would be flown out more promptly. He does


so and she is flown out early and he most probably saved her life by


doing so. Another example was when the bomb had just struck and


Philip’s family was in the shelter which wasn’t very safe and stable.


He went up to the surface to check out his neighbor’s house which was


miraculously intact. Philip found the owner and his wife in good shape


and arranged to bring his family over to the neighbor’s cool basement


for safety and refuge. A third example was when the hospital in his


town was almost pout of water and Philip was asked by a nurse


to find a worker that works with the town’ s plumbing at his house and


manage to get water to the hospital. He did so and after a while


drained water from a resident’s pool and had it flown down to the


hospital. These are some examples of how the setting functions in the


novel.


After the Bomb is an exciting and stimulating novel which shows


the leadership of a teenager over his family. The novel displays


a realistic happening that can happen any second and describes it


intricately. It’s an electrifying, terrifying, and exhilarating rush


and is an outstanding novel. Survival was only the beginning…


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