Chernobyl Book Report

General Summary
Three brothers caught in the horrific Chernobyl disaster that took place in the 1980’s. The narrator who happened to be the eldest brother describes the dramatic backdrop, as the brothers deal with the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown. His two younger siblings happened to be in the right thick of the fiasco made by a couple of colleagues imbecility. However, is it certainly the colleagues who are the victims if the reactor’s design allows you to commit such atrocious aberration? Nevertheless what is certain is the negligence wound up with death, disability and wisdom.

Characters
The protagonist and narrator, Boris Yakovlevich Prushinsky is the eldest and has the most eminent position, in Chernobyl among his two siblings,

4 at the Chernobyl power station. He was a young tyro full of charisma, the coming personality, at the age of 28 a senior turbine engineer He has always been the brave brother, the one his other siblings used to look up to. Mikhail was somewhat impulsive and would take a risk and deny it at the same time. “One night as a boy after a beating he hauled himself off his bed and pissed into our father’s boots, already wet from the river. He’d never suspect, Mikhail told us”. Mikhail’s gambling affected him positively, he was the one who made himself, when he would have to be, Solitary and unreachable. Whenever the youngest brother gets in a poor direction tended to follow Mikhail’s steps. Unluckily Mikhail’s hardworking mindset caused his

This symbol represents Communist russia trembling and on it’s way of falling additionally, it is a risky place for opinion. As Soviet pretends nothing is wrong and no one has the guts to speak up, Chernobyl takes place.

Comparative Tales
The story is fictional with elements influenced by true events. There are some splendid fictional novels that account the Chernobyl disaster in great detail such as Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl by Mary Mycio. However, there are none that put together the disaster in a shortstory without missing a beat. The main themes of the shortstory are regret and righteousness, whom are found in numerous work of arts comparatively, the movie Basketball Diaries were Leonardo Dicaprio plays a character making mistakes and taking his life to the wrong direction and burden with regret. Another outstanding comparative fictional tale that cast light on the themes regret and righteousness is the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini.