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A review by meowreads_94
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
5.0
I watched BAREFOOT GEN last week and what an wonderful anime movie it was! It compelled me to read something about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Bombing and thanks god we are blessed with mighty internet which lead me to this heart breaking beautiful book. It's a true story about a girl named Sadako who was 2 years old when the atomic bombing happened in Japan.She and her family survived the bombing but 10 years after she was victimized of Leukemia and her BFF told her to make 1000 paper cranes which is believed to end one's sufferings if one was sick. Sadako found hope and started making paper cranes with her finger which was losing energy to fold paper day by day. Did sadako able to finish making 1000 paper cranes? did she survive? Did she succeed to transfer her hope to others? these questions will only be answered after someone finished reading this tiny sized book.
It's a book which can be finished reading only by one sitting and yet has the power to mesmerize the readers. The story is emotional but I do not find the writing filled with too much sentiments and that works good for me. I don't like it when the writer spoiled a beautiful story with overwhelming emotions which are not required. everything is not necessary to be written to make readers understand the situation or to make them feel what's going on with millions words. simple sentences and simple words also can do the same work eve with more efficiently. Sometimes you just can't blame the shit out of any party who suppose to be really responsible for a war and people like sadako became the victim of the war and even they survive it , they had to pay for the consequences for rest of their lives. It's not a story of only a girl who saw world war and later suffer the consequences, It is a story of every person who get victimized of every war happened in the world and still holding the hope to get back to their normal life and live it fully. A must READ for EVERYBODY!
It's a book which can be finished reading only by one sitting and yet has the power to mesmerize the readers. The story is emotional but I do not find the writing filled with too much sentiments and that works good for me. I don't like it when the writer spoiled a beautiful story with overwhelming emotions which are not required. everything is not necessary to be written to make readers understand the situation or to make them feel what's going on with millions words. simple sentences and simple words also can do the same work eve with more efficiently. Sometimes you just can't blame the shit out of any party who suppose to be really responsible for a war and people like sadako became the victim of the war and even they survive it , they had to pay for the consequences for rest of their lives. It's not a story of only a girl who saw world war and later suffer the consequences, It is a story of every person who get victimized of every war happened in the world and still holding the hope to get back to their normal life and live it fully. A must READ for EVERYBODY!