Response Essay On Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

I am reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and I am on page 200. The pages I have read is bout a man named Louie Zamperini who was once an Olympic runner, and now is in the army during WII. He becomes stranded and eventually becomes a POW. In this journal I will be evaluating and predicting.

I will be evaluating Louie Zamperini. For starters, he is a very tenacious man. He never gives up and always tries his hardest. When Louie is in the raft, he never thought for one minute about giving up, because he knew that if he did, he would die. The author says, “Louie was determined that no matter what happened to their bodies, their minds would stay under their control” (Hillenbrand 145). What Louie is trying to do is to keep them sane and not

Secondly, Louie likes to push himself the limit. He goes as far and hard as he can possibly go. By pushing himself to the limit, he has accomplished so much. He became an Olympic runner and won some of his events. When he was younger he would train so hard to become faster and be able to beat his personal records. Louie became so good in track that he became a threat and tried to hurt him. The author says, “He told Louie that some of his rival coaches were ordering their runners to sharpen their spikes and slash him” (Hillenbrand 41). The runners slashed and stabbed him during the race, but he pushed himself to the limit and won the race. Also, not only is Louie tenacious, but he is also a troublemaker. One reason is that he steals a large number of things, like food, valuables, and anything that he can find. Many people in his hometown didn’t like him because almost everyone had something stolen by Louie Zamperini. The author mentions in the book, “If it was edible, Louie stole it. He sulked down alleys, a roll of lock-picking wire in his pocket” (Hillenbrand 6). He would steal anything that had value to him, no matter what it was. He is also a rule breaker. It says in the book that he started