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How Does Watanabe Overcome Difficulties In Unbroken
Patrick Ling
Mr. Delaney
English 2, Period 6
9/14/2014

Final Draft In Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, whenever people face hardships, their true characters are shown through acts of dignity and optimism that will help them overcome difficulties. This will be shown through one of Watanabe’s beatings of Louie and the Japanese race. Unbroken is about how hardships can be defeated by belief and pride, shown through Louie’s will to survive from Watanabe’s beating. Louie was captured by Japanese men after floating on a boat in the middle of the ocean with little supplies for a record time. He was taken to POW camps and met inhumane conditions. Louie was starved, beaten, and exercised to the limit. In one camp called Omori, one beater name Watanabe

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