In one novel, a man screams after hearing about this event on his crystal set and points his rifle at a bedridden man. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event whose occurrence leads Kip to distrust Europeans and leave the Villa San Girolamo. A book-length essay about this event in the New Journalism style follows the lives of six people after it.
ANSWER: atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [prompt on World War II] (The unnamed book is John Hersey’s Hiroshima)
[10m] Kip leaves the Villa San Girolamo after the bombing of Hiroshima in this novel. In this novel, an explorer based on László Almásy is cared for by the nurse Hana.
ANSWER: The English Patient
[10e] The literary Almásy, who is given the title nickname of The English Patient, has his whole body burned in one of these events. One of these accidents leads the boys in Lord of the Flies to be stranded on an island.
ANSWER: airplane crashes
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