Analysis Of The Book 'Unbroken'

Samantha Timmer
Accelerated European History
Unbroken Analysis Paper
July 2016

While reading the interesting novel of Unbroken there were lots to think about. Along with the prompts on which this paper will answer, the novel was a very good portrayal of what World War Two was like. This novel was told from the point of view of someone who lived through it, and it was a very in depth detailed report over Louie’s life, in the nonfiction literary category. This paper will describe and answer in detail all about the novel and how Louie could survive through the War. Some of the main topics of this paper include, Louie’s characteristics, how Louie survived, Louie’s reconciliation, and an important life lesson from throughout the novel. Throughout
I think that Louie was lucky but because of his positive attitude and the ability he has to push himself he was much more likely to survive. Overall, he had about twenty percent luck and about eighty percent was his personality making him survive. No matter what camp Louie was at he wanted the same things, food, to see his family, and the War to end. In Chapter twenty-eight, Louie was hurt, his ankle badly tore and he could no longer work. When the POWs in the camp could not work their food rations were to be cut in half. That, Louie could not have, so he begged for work, he ended up cleaning a pig’s cage without any proper tools. This proved that Louie would be willing to dig through pig feces, just to get a little bit of food. Cleaning the pig’s pen with your own hands is not lucky neither is tearing your ankle, he was pushing himself and showing self-restraint to not retaliate, because he wanted his whole ration of food. Tearing his ankle is bad luck, so is getting the job as a pig custodian. Ever since the B-29 American plane sighting in Chapter 25, Louie had hope that the War would be over soon, he was very positive about the sighting. This first American plane sighting gave all of the POWs in the camp hope that the War would be ending very soon, and it gave them a little extra positivity to get them through the last leg of the War. This would give Louie the hope he needed to get through the rest of the War, because he knew that it would be ending soon. Seeing the B-29 and having it fly over his camp, giving him and the other POWs hope, was lucky. The B-29 symbolized for the men in the camp that the War would be over soon and that they could go home. These two specific examples prove the point; Louie was able