Sadako was at home when the
explosion occurred, about one mile from Ground Zero, she was blown out of the
window and her mother ran out to find a child , she suspected she may be dead
but she found her two year old daughter alive. While running in practice for a
big race, Sadako felt dizzy and decided to hide this as a secret. Many times
she felt this sickness whilst running but still hid this. Soon the big day came
up and Sadako ran fast as her legs could carry her as everyone suspecting she
won. Whilst running to her parents wanting to spread the good news she tripped
over and fainted. In November 1954, Sadako develop swellings on her neck and
behind her ears. In January 1955, purple spots had formed on her legs.
Subsequently, she was diagnosed with leukemia ( an atom bomb disease ). She was
hospitalized on February 21, 1955, and given, at the most, a year to live.
Several year after the atomic
bomb, an increase in leukemia was observed especially among children. By the
early 1950s it was clear that the leukemia was caused by radiation exposure.
On August 3, 1955, sadako’s
best friend Chizuko Hamamoto came to the hospital to visit, and cut a golden
piece of paper into a square to fold it into a paper crane, in reference to the
ancient Japanesse story that promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami
cranes will be granted a wish by the God. A popular version of the story is
that Sadako felt short of her goal of folding 1.000 cranes, having folded only
644 before her death, and that her friends completed the 1.000 and burried them
with all her.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki
I really like this story
from the first for
some reason, I’d been
used this story
for the task of speaking presentation class,
since I was little I liked to make an
origami cranes, but I'd never make it to thousands :-)
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