Book Report On Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

Would you be able to stop everything that you’re doing and join the army if another World War was to occur? The author that published Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption on November 16, 2010, was Laura Hillenbrand. This story takes place mostly in the Pacific Ocean and many of prisoner-of-war camps in Japan. This book is about a man named Louie Zamperini that was an agitator at a young age that had also trained to beat the four-minute-mile, but decided to put everything on hold when World War II transpired. After Louie enlisted in the army, he served as a B-24 Liberator bombardier, but as he was traveling over the Pacific Ocean, his plane was shot down by another aircraft. Louie and his pilot, Phil, survived

As time passes on by, Louie discovers that he is having a troublesome time falling asleep because of everything that he had to experience in the different types of camps. Cynthia decided to divorce Louie when he started drinking again and because she caught him multiple times a day shaking their child insanely. Cynthia came to a realization to take Louie to one of her friend’s tent preaching sessions to help him feel better emotionally and physically after everything that he had experienced during the war. After many of years had passed, Louie decided to forgive everyone that abused him during the war. In the end, Louie was able to carry the Olympic torch in 1998 and has never looked back to those days in the Japanese

Another important fact was that as Louie was traveling across the Pacific Ocean, his plane was shot down, and his pilot and he became stranded in the middle of the ocean for forty-seven days. Both the pilot and Louie survived, but they were captured and place into prison-of-war camps. Another important fact was that during Louie’s time in the prison-of-war camp, there had been a guard nicknamed the Bird, that punched Louie more than two hundred times and even made him clean pigpens with his bare hands just because he did not like