Summary Of Laura Hillenbrand's 'Unbroken'

Imagine being in a horrible emergency, fire and broken objects everywhere and despite being in peak physical condition, stuck frozen with no idea what to do. In that case scenario, being in the shape of a lifetime will not help. Having emotional stability and intellectual knowledge of a situation far outweighs the importance of physical fitness in survival.

The article This is your brain on emergencies written by Jerzell Black is about the stages of an emergency and how to deal with the case of an emergency. Black believes that being emotionally stable and having the ability to not lose people in a stressful situation will help to improve the chances of survival. Just after Black shares a scientific method on how to control heart rate and
Black also expresses the importance of taking control of anger, as he states when listing things to do before taking action. Before you take action: Calm yourself, Shift your emotions. If you get mad, use that anger as energy. ( Black 17) expresses the idea that having the ability to take control of emotion and using it to help you will help to keep everyone in the situation safe and unharmed, and explains how shifting emotions such as anger from using them for violence and destruction to controlling them and using anger to leave the emergency unharmed. The excerpt from the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is about a group of men stuck in the ocean after their plane crashed during World War II. The men show the importance of being emotionally stable and handling their emotions. For example, instead of using their anger from the crash they had boiled up, they used that energy to fight off sharks and even encouraged each other as shown when the narrator explains after Mac fought off the sharks. Louis looked at Mac with happy amazement and told him how proud of him he was (Hillenbrand 49) Expressing the uplifting nature of the men whilst