Wyatt Zamperini Character Analysis

Louie Zamperini, the main character, experiences countless dangerous situations, which he always works his way out of, with the practice of his encounters in childhood. By learning from his past dealings, Zamperini becomes very resourceful and knows how to deal with what he goes through. Even though a young boy, Louie is not innocent. Throughout his childhood, he does things that leave people screaming or calling the police. He does not care about what people think about him, but rather what he thinks of himself and his actions. Louie does not have friends as a child and no one to socialize with his age other than his siblings. Therefore, he fills this void by stealing and intruding and enraging others. All Zamperini wants to do is something,
The result had been a mutinous youth. As maddening as his exploits had been for his parents and his town, Louie’s success in carrying them off had give him the conviction that he could think his way around any boundary. Now, as he is cast into extremity, despair and death becomes the focus of his defiance. The same attributes that had made him the boy terror of Torrance were keeping him alive in the greatest struggle of his life” (Loc. 2444) This piece of evidence explains how all the difficulties Louie is facing is in some way easier, because of all his troubles in his past. And as the evidence states, he takes on all of the rules and restrictions placed on him as a boundary he is going to stomp on. In the Prisoner-Of-War Camps, he is forced into, he knows just how to step on all the strict rules he is supposed to follow. This helps him show his pride for America and his defiance to the things blocking him and his friends from going on in life. Once again, the skills he learns in the process of figuring things out benefits him with the problems he