Over the summer I read about a person who was a really good track star and served in World War II. Written by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken is a non-fiction World War II story about a young man named Louis Zamperini. The story takes place in the pacific islands and Japan during World War II Louis grew up as a restless and naughty boy, but then became a good and famous track star before getting drafted into the second world war. Louis faces the challenge of surviving on his own and enduring cruelty against Japanese leaders as a prisoner of war. One day in 1943, an Army Air Force Bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Louis and some of his crew trapped in the Pacific. Louis had to deal with surviving on only a life raft above crazy sharks and little food. Surviving nearly three months in the ocean and near death, Louis was captured by the Japanese, a main enemy of the United States’ during the war. Louie had to deal with the very cruel Japanese generals as a prisoner of war. Louis’ biggest problem was dealing with an Japanese general nicknamed “The Bird”. After nearly two years of dealing with the cruelty of Japan, the war ended and the prisoners of war were free. Even though after Louis got married and had a family, he still had flashbacks and depression from World War II. Eventually, Louie got closer to God and became a …show more content…
The story and the characters really stood out to me. They really expressed themselves and the setting in the story was very cool to learn about. I enjoyed the pictures in the book because they guide the reader into the setting and the time period in the book. I recommend this book to people who are interested in learning about World War II and people who are interested in biographies and survival stories. One of my favorite quotes from the book was “A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” I truly think of this book as a story about war, survival, and
The three time Olympic athlete and inductee of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, Gail Devers, once expressed, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken, Louie Zamperini conveyed Devers’ words when, through even his darkest hours, he remained invariably perseverant, while withstanding the utmost, cruelest predicaments.
Unbroken The Sequel In the sequel of Unbroken, the author sees Louie Zamperini in his later years, and Louie now owns a camp in California’s San Gabriel Mountains known as the Victory. He waits for boys that are intimately familiar with juvenile hall and what jail is like. Louie’s camp lets these kind of people have them figure out their problems and to make them a better person, and to believe in themselves, and also to be free without any walls around them. When Louie isn 't with his campers, he would be traveling around the world telling his story to audiences in everything from grade school classrooms to stadiums.
Have you ever thought of yourself as a person who has the guts to do anything, but in reality when it comes time to actually do something you back out of it? In the book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand Louis “Louie” Zamperini had partaken in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Not long after Louie had competed in the games he had continued on his path to success to join the U.S. Air Forces in 1940, right around when World War II had begun. When Louie and his fellow crew members were flying over the Pacific Ocean in their B-24D Army Air Forces bomber one day in May of 1943, they had crashed into the ocean due to two engine failures. After crashing into the Pacific there were only three survivors; Louie, pilot Lieutenant Russell Allen
In Unbroken, Louis Zamperini and his friends have emotional issues from the war. For example, Louie freaked out when his family played a broadcast he sent out from Japan. Louie also became an alcoholic after the war, due to his emotional state. One of Louis’s friends flipped a table upon seeing rice, one of the sole foods he consumed as a POW.
In Thomas C. Foster’s How To Read Literature Like a Professor For Kids, readers have the ability to identify certain elements from chapters “Nice To Eat You; Acts of Vampires”, “Is That a Symbol?”and “Marked For Greatness”, which Laura Hillenbrand puts to action in her book Unbroken. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel Unbroken, the characters in the story show and play out the chapter 3 “Nice to Eat You; Acts of Vampires” from Thomas C. Foster’s How To Read Literature Like a Professor For Kids. In the novel Unbroken there is a general named Watanabe who was the leader of discipline at Omori POW camp in Japan. Watanabe was known for his brutality within the camp because his purposeful standing around waiting for someone to make one tiny mistake, so he could beat them until they were unconscious.
Throughout Unbroken, readers face one surprise after another. The audience is forced to expect the unexpected, and never accept what is said to be the truth. Louie Zamperini had anything but an ordinary life. His experiences are practically unfathomable, and intermittently lead to question of credibility. Indisputably, however, Louie had an unusual life filled with coincidence.
The book being reviewed is Unbroken An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Captain to Captive is a memoir written by Laura Hillenbrand(2014). The book is about an Italian immigrant who moved to the United States named Louie Zamperini where he got drafted into the Air Force, crashed in a search and rescue mission, stranded in the ocean, was tortured in the Japanese in a Prisoner of war camp. When the war was finally overOlympicsand he got rescued along with all the people at the POW camp, he had to return to a normal lifestyle in the United States. I chose this book because I wanted to read about the experience that Louie went through during the time he was a POW.
A sick and frail kid, Louie’s delinquent behavior defined him; he stole anything from just about anyone, constantly getting into trouble for doing daring
The author elaborates on PTSD and life after the war for Zamperini until he finds absolution. Overall, Unbroken is an empowering informational text, telling Louie’s story against the major world events of the twentieth century. Laura Hillenbrand reveals the extremes of Louie’s life from 1918 to 1950 using historic details of the story. Hillenbrand writes using a third person narrator. This perspective is beneficial for writing a biography, allowing further information to be obtained from research.
This book is mainly discussed in the book is the life of an American soldier. The author show us turning points of the main character Louie Zamperini, and told me something important. Firstly are kinship and encourage. When Louie was a child, he was not a good boy. He often steal things and hind the things in a box in the city and avoid policemen.
Louie starts his life as a determined athlete, but because of internal and external conflicts, he changes to an enduring patriot, and finally, to a troubled veteran. Louie, during the beginning of the story, was a determined athlete. He had troubles with stealing and getting in trouble. He had few friends, and never joined school athletics.
After his best friend, Michael, commits suicide he feels as if he is left alone to face the next four years of high school. He mostly lives in his own little world and just wanders and observes things which is mainly the reason why his friends give him the title of a 'wallflower. ' Similarly when Charlie describes his crush Sam by stating “Incidentally, Sam has brown hair and very very pretty, green eyes. The kind of green that doesn’t make a big deal about itself “(Chbosky, 19).This indicates how he analyzes her features and adds a deeper meaning to simply just her eyes. Alike most teenagers his age, Charlie makes very rash and impulsive decisions like when the football players teamed up against Patrick for being gay and started beating him up until Charlie interferes and stops them, winning him respect among Sam and everyone else.
Louis endured much pain during his time in the war. Being beaten, punched, shot, and
While the book is quite lengthy, it portrays vivid description of the hardships of what each human endured during the 1940s. It gives you fictional characters like the Henry's but also gives you historical characters like Franklin Roosevelt and General Nimitz. Whether you were a German or a Jew, the suffering and persecution happened everywhere. The blood shed and the death of soldiers and innocent civilians were shown across the
Upon arriving in his hometown following the war, Louie’s faith is developed and strengthened, leading to his forgiveness of the guards who treated him so poorly while imprisoned at camps. Louie undergoes some extremely challenging circumstances throughout his time spent at war. In these times of trial, he would pray, even though his faith wasn’t prominent. One difficulty Louie experienced was the unexpected crash of a B-24 Liberator, called Green Hornet, while on a mission to hunt for another plane that had recently gone down.