"They still wonder why they lived when so many others died .Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition-a step taken in time,a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next- that spared him. And each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see.At the time ,none of them knew anything."PAGE-02
These sentences confused me different ways. The first sentence is confused because the actual meaning is not clear to me.I think they were wonder about their aliveness because ,where more than hundred thousands people died in the war,they were alive and they were also worried about their miserable lives.They never thought about such a huge destruction and human sufferings.At the time none of them knew anythings,which means nobody didn't knew what was going to happen in Hiroshima or in Japan.
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This passage shows the main characters in this story do not understanding why they have survived on this exploration. There are so many people die in this exploration, why they are still living. They also thought about what they did-moves and decisions-before the exploration. They still cannot figure out why, and they do not even know what is going to happen at that time.
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