Many people believe that resilience is only about survival with strength, but really resilience can be surviving through any means. In the story, "Unbroken" a man named Louis Zamperini and his friends crashed a ship during World War II. After the crash, Louis, and two others by the name of Mac and Phil survive and must use resilience to survive in the ocean and to get back. Louis Zamperini's most essential characteristic of resilience however is strong problem-solving skills, with him being able to fix most problems they come in contact with and with the other two being the opposite and needing their problems fixed. After the crash, Louis has been helping himself, Phil, and Mac survive out in the open ocean with all his quick thinking and problem solving skills. An example of this was right after the crash, when the three needed a raft to float on the water, and it states, "Then he saw a long cord trailing off the raft, snaking not two feet from his face. He snatched the cord, reeled the raft to him, and climbed aboard," …show more content…
Louis has been able to solve problems like dehydration and starvation all with this characteristic, making it the most important in survival for them. This is more apparent by the lack of this skill from the others, requiring Louis to possess it and it becoming more needed in the long run. This characteristic of resilience does really show that Louis believes in survival, life, and himself when out in the dangerous sea, and much can be learned about how being able to solve the most tedious or even most difficult task is what may be keeping people alive. Most people may believe that strength is the most needed requirement for resilience, but the truth is that problem solving may be the actual life
His crew mates let Louie take command of the raft. The following quote shows how someone who just meets Louie recognizes his bravery and is willing to let him take control of the plan to survive. Phil exclaims “I’m glad it was you,
Louis Zamperini was a very troubled child. He was the total opposite of his brother, Pete. He loved to get in trouble and mess around. He started drinking and smoking cigarettes before he was 10 years old. ALl of this changed when he found his love for running.
Resilience in The Break The Break is a novel that has constant conflicts and issues occuring, from mental health issues to addictions and death to gangs, there is always conflict. Many of the characters find a way to deal with this conflict with various skills, one of the most occurring is their quality of resilience. Laura Vermette demonstrates all the seven C’s of resilience - competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping and control - in her book, The Break, through different characters and situations while showing how individuals would be unable to survive and grow without resilience.
Along Louie’s journey he had been in a crash along with his crewmen most of them died. They were stranded for a long time, 47 days max. There had been no people, food,water nothing. But Louie never lost his dignity.
The fact that Louie is throwing himself into being the leader of the tough situation and using his mental skill to comprehend ideas which could lead to a different fate shows how skillful he really is. As can also be seen in the text: "He snatched the cord, reeled the raft to him, and climbed aboard. He rowed to Phil and Mac" (Hillenbrand 4, 5). This also shows how important skillfulness is due to the fact that Louie found his solution to a problem and put it in action. Luckily, it can be shown in his natural instinct to do this sort of idea-thinking process.
The Glass Castle Essay Wesley Murray A3 8/28/16 In Jeannette Walls’s book The Glass Castle, there are many examples of what is called human resilience. No better quote describes human resilience better than, “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead.
The determination to live comes from human nature. But the urge of giving up when we come across a difficult problem is also a part of human nature. There a few people in this world that have the characteristics of resilience. As author Kendra Cherry describes them, "People that are able to keep their cool have what psychologists call resilience, or an ability to cope with problems and setbacks" (Source A; Cherry, 1). An example of someone who has the characteristics of resilience is a bombardier name Louis (Louie) Zamperini.
Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. It is the ability to bounce back, no matter if it 's an object or person. As Margaret Thatcher said, “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young Elie Wiesel and his family are taken from their hometown, Sighet, and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this book, Wiesel relives and tells the horrors and nightmares of what his friends, family, and himself went through while in the camps.
“To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don’t give up, don’t give in. There’s always an answer to everything”-Louie Zamperini. This man, Louie Zamperini was a bombardier for the US in World War II. He and his crew were shot down and forced to survive at sea for forty six days.
Louis was surrounded by sharks and had no food. He often had to punch the sharks so he would stay alive. To gain confidence and allow himself to keep going, he would often think to himself that “I’ve worked so hard to be where I am now, I can not give up…” (Hillenbrand 191). Louis was determined to never give up and to keep fighting.
The American politician, diplomat, and activist Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built”. In the Biography Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, the main character, Louis Zamperini, sets a great example to represent this quote. Louis shows his confidence by once the “bad kid”, soon Louie realizes he needs to change his ways with the help of his brother, Pete. As a soldier in World War II, he faced many challenges with his crew and within himself. Over time
War Combat, loyalty, enmity, bloodshed, and duty, all words that fit under the category of war. The novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is about Louis Zamperini a strong willed man raised in Torrance, California. He started as a young troublemaker until he discovered his passion for running in high school. That very passion led him to compete in the Olympics. Later he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, a brave decision that would change his life.
What does resilience really mean to you? The literal definition to resilience is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks. In the story Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, she shows us all different kind of ways that the characters in her story used the skills that Kendra Cherry was talking about, to help them out of every situation. In this story it shows how certain situations affect people in different ways and how each person goes through seven skills. The characteristic that Louie undergoes is the skill of Strong Problem-Solving.
What is resilience and is it possible to strength one’s inner self, even after adversity? Resilience is the ability to readily handle issues, and it is possible to cultivate more confidence that leads to resilience. Even though, those who do not attempt to improve to one’s self will have a more troubling time in conquering problems. However, the theme of overcoming conflict is displayed in a numerous amount of ways, as characterization, facts and details, and plot. The theme developed in the literary texts Defending Jacob, The Third and Final Continent, and The Art of Resilience is that overcoming adversity is necessary for success.
According to Masten (2001) “resiliency refers to a class of phenomena characterized by good outcomes in spite of serious threats to adaptation or development” (p. 228). Garmezy (1991) considers the intelligence level of an individual and ability to possess the mind power to tackle an adverse situation as one pleases as the core characteristics of a resilient individual. Garmezy (1991) resiliency framework allows student affairs professionals is to examine the strengths of disadvantaged students who are faced with various life stressors, but