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''When the Wind Blows'' is a 1982 graphic novel, by British artist Raymond Briggs, that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs. The book was later made into an animated film. ==Plot== The book follows the story of the Bloggses, characters previously seen in the book ''Gentleman Jim''. One afternoon, the couple hears a message on the radio about an "outbreak of hostilities" in three days' time. Jim immediately starts construction of a fallout shelter (in accordance with a government-issued ''Protect and Survive'' brochure), while the two reminisce about the Second World War. Their reminiscences are used both for comic effect and to show how the geopolitical situation has changed, but also how nostalgia has blotted out the horrors of war. A constant theme is Jim's optimistic outlook and his unshakeable belief that the government knows what's best and that it has the situation under full control, coupled with Hilda's attempts to carry on life as normal. During their preparations the action is interrupted by two page dark illustrations. With the first being a nuclear missile on a launch pad, labeled "MEANWHILE, ON A DISTANT PLAIN...." The second a squadron of Warthogs, labeled "MEANWHILE, IN THE DISTANT SKY...." And third a nuclear submarine labeled "MEANWHILE, IN A DISTANT OCEAN...." The Bloggses soon hear of enemy missiles heading towards England and make it into their shelter before a nuclear explosion. They spend all the first day within the fallout shelter, but leave the shelter on the second day, and move about the house, exposing themselves to the fallout. But undaunted, they try to continue life as normal, as if it was the Second World War again. They find the house to be in shambles, with both the water and the electricity cut off. On the third day, misreading advice given in government leaflets of having to stay in the fallout shelter for 48 hours instead of 14 days, they go outside, exposing themselves to a huge amount of radioactive fallout. While outside, they comment on the smell of cooking meat, unaware that it is the burning corpses of their neighbors. Jim and Hilda exhibit considerable confusion regarding the serious nature of what has happened after the nuclear attack; this generates gentle comedy as well as darker elements: amongst them, their obliviousness of the fact that they are probably the only people left of their acquaintance. As the novel progresses, and with what has survived of their emergency water supply all gone, they have to end up collecting rainwater. Though they are wise to boil it, it is still contaminated with radiation, and thus their situation becomes steadily more hopeless, as they begin to suffer more effects of radiation sickness. At first they suffer headaches and shiverings, moments after the bomb. Then, from the second day, Hilda suffers with vomiting and having diarrhea. On the fourth day, Hilda's gums began to bleed, and is also showing blood in her diarrhea, which they mistake for hemorrhoid. On the fifth day, Jim also shows bleeding gums; both are suffering blue bruising but mistake these for varicose veins. And finally, Hilda's hair begins to fall out. From then on, she insists that they go into the paper bags and go back into the fallout shelter, and wait for help to arrive, which through the situation of M.A.D., would never come. The book ends on a bleak note, when at night, Hilda insists Jim should pray; he then begins uttering the Lord's Prayer, which pleases Hilda, but then, confused, he switches to the first lines of the "''Charge of the Light Brigade''", which upsets her, as she weakly begs for him not to continue. The paper bags that they were in then darken, symbolizing their ebb of consciousness, growing debility and ultimate deaths. This is then followed by the next page, in which is a blank white page, symbolizing that they have peacefully gone to those green pastures. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「When the Wind Blows (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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