Throughout the trials he faced, Louie remained unbroken, struggling against his captors to retain his dignity.…
Adversity continued to hit Louie’s life like powerful waves. He survived 47 days on an inflatable raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and years in Japanese POW camps. The sadist guard known as…
Louie was a boy that wouldn’t listen to anyone and was a big criminal and law breaker. He has stolen anything from liquor to multilayer cakes. He was eventually convinced to stop and become a runner. When he went to the olympics he tried to steal a germany flag when he was at the olympics. `In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the main character Louie is a thief and a very rebellious person.…
I am thoroughly enjoying Hillenbrand’s eclectic storytelling in the novel Unbroken. Essentially, while reading chapter nine, I came across a sliver of insight from Super Man crewmember Pillsbury. I valued his moment of rescinding despair. Pillsbury depicts the rivaling Zero’s Pilot with a white scarf and face aglow from the sunlight, yet he imagines only despair for himself and his crew. Pillsbury’s vision also entertains the human aspects of war, as there is no question that hard choices must be made. Immediately, Pillsbury bucks up and fires the deadly blow, annihilating the seemingly infallible Zero. Subsequently, the Super Man bomber received five hundred ninety-four gashes during the conflict, in effect was presumed never to fly again.…
In a time of war, countries can react accordingly, doing things that can be viewed as in-human. During WWII, both American POWs and Japanese-American internees, experienced this. From the book, Unbroken, and the article, “George Takei on Internment, Allegiance and ‘Gaman’”, both American POWs and Japanese-American internees got their dignity taken away from them during tough times.…
I genuinely did not expect to learn this much from the book Unbroken. The story of Louie Zamperini was unexpectedly much more understandable and relatable than I first imagined. Seeing the main character was a former war hero, I found it surprising I was able to connect to him as I happen to be fourteen. In my opinion, readers can easily compare similar situations in their life, regardless of their age. A point often overlooked, Louie is a true survivor. He was stranded forty-seven days on a crammed raft, as well as beaten without remorse at a prison camp for two years. Louie was stripped of his friends as he watched them either be transferred or slowly die. He witnessed many accounts of sexual abuse to innocent and helpless animals, as well…
Unbroken, based on the true story of Louie Zamperini, is about a young boy with a troubled life style, who with the help of his brother, Pete, joins the high school…
Everyone loves a hero! A hero is someone who displays undeniable courage, never ending strength and demonstrates nobility. Louie, the main character in Unbroken, a novel written by Laura Hillenbrand, exhibits heroism. He does this by helping his friends in time of need, overcoming difficult obstacles and extending forgiveness under strenuous circumstances.…
They are frequently tossed off and have to get back on. With no cell phone service and barely any food. There seemed like there was no hope. As they battle hard in the freezing cold water they began to lose faith. Planes and helicopters are flying by but can’t see them. They’re frustrated mentally and physically exhausted. Corey smith is the first man to die due to starvation after seventeen hours in the water. The rest of the crew is in shock. He was a NFL player and in great shape. Five hours later they lose Marquis Cooper, the captain of the boat. He couldn’t survive and gave up .” It was the hardest thing ever in my life to watch my freind drift away literally, right before my eyes”(145). Nick couldn’t do anything to save the two. Now it was only Will and Nick left struggling on the boat. They had made it for thirty six hours, wide awake and threw the nights , so far and keep telling each other they could do it and someone is going to find them. At the forty two hour mark Will is taking in a lot of salt water and eventually can’t keep getting back on the boat and drowns. Now Nick devastated and exhausted has only one thing to do, wait. After seven more hours the coast guard rescue boats gets him and then call a helicopter for him to lifted off and rushed to the closest hospital. He’s in shock that he made it. His family and friends were waiting…
During training and test flights, a bomber could die before ever seeing combat, so Louie not only trained his body for the unpredictable war, but he trained his mind as well: “He’d been in Hawaii for only two months, yet already several dozen men from his bomb group including more than a quarter of the men in his barracks had been killed” (83). Given a B-24D, Louie and his crew named the plane Superman; however, two missions later, the Superman riddled with bullet holes, made it time for a new plane. Now assigned to the Green Hornet, tragedy struck Louie and his crew on the very first mission and they crashed into the Pacific Ocean. When Louie awakened from his thick stupor, he immediately went into to action gathering the supplies and crew. Louie and the crew would go on to endure a forty-seven day venture stuck in the ocean, “We are going to die” (135). Like children who dream they can be whomever they want to be in life, Louie’s ambition focused with everything and never gave up, no matter what situation he was in. This shows that even though Louie went up against insurmountable odds like being stuck in the raft, he kept dreaming of being the runner he once was, being rescued, and not letting his mind rot unlike his…
Firstly, the author is able to deliver this story using her own writing style. One way she does this is with the use of many literary devices throughout the novel. When Louie is just a…
The seventh man should forgive himself for his failure to save K. in the wave. I am sure of this because even tho the seventh man will feel it was his fault, it wasn’t, it was K.’s fault for being out in the dangerous storm in the first place. “Many rescue workers have lost their own lives saving others.” as stated in the story, “The Cost Of Survival”.…
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…
At one point or another we all succumb to the feeling of helplessness in our lives. Whether it is a feeling of not being able to break free of an abusive loved one or being trapped by a bad storm, the natural animal instinct of survival is apparent. "Celebration" written by W.D. Valgardson studies that instinct and the helplessness of situations that drives us to it.…
Sometimes during a crisis the only thing you can do is to try yourself to…