Theme Of Unbroken Essay

Hillenbrand depicts the battle scenes beautifully, describing even the most minute of details, to make the reader feel as if he or she is actually there. “The plane was gravely wounded, trying to fly up and over onto its back. It wanted to stall and wouldn’t turn, and the pilots needed all their strength to hold it level. Three Zeros (Japanese Plane) orbited it, spewing streams of bullets and cannon shells.” (100) She also makes the reader want to throw up with her graphic descriptions of punishment and torture.

Unbroken How does one 's past affect one’s identity in the future? Louie Zamperini, a World War II veteran who suffered in japanese prison camps, spent his early years getting into trouble. His brother, Pete Zamperini, pushed him out of his comfort zone and made him join the track team. Louie set many records, and made it to the Berlin Olympics.

American author and political activist Helen Keller once said, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken, the motivated Louie Zamperini exemplifies Keller’s words through his shocking journey unlike any other. Zamperini’s childhood delinquency, distance Olympic running career, and survival World War II story intrigued Hillenbrand to share this compelling story and determination with the world.

Another example is when Telemachus stood by his father’s side against the suitors. From the very beginning, Odysseus presents perseverance. Even with Poseidon’s whole-hearted grudge and torments, Odysseus remains determined to reach home once again to his tall house and lovely family. Also, the purpose of his journey back home helps him drive his determination. His yearn for survival and the ultimate goal of homecoming to kill the suitors courting his wife help Odysseus stay persistent.

I watched as Rawlings stupidly goes after him. Not able to see much, I flew off, but from what Rawlings told me, trench warfare is ruthless; a French came to help lift the plane wing off of Beagle’s hand and he was instantly shot. They show no

Sinigaglia 1 Chiara Sinigaglia Ms. Vyse English 2 Honors April 15, 2016 ? Unbroken? : How Louis Zamperini Survived Suffering Using Faith and Hope

Flying too high led to the wings burning and Daedalus was forced to witness the death of his son before his very eyes. Karma found a way back to him and he couldn’t do anything about it. Which teaches that pride will only influence negative feelings upon ourselves and can end up hurting us as

Reality’s Hardship on Life’s Unreal Expectations Written by James Hurst, the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” strongly emphasizes how the pride of Brother leads to unattainable and highly impossible goals, and how setting the highest goals can bring you down even further. Setting and trying to complete tremendous goals in a short amount of time is dangerous like when Brother urges, “School was only a few weeks away, and Doodle was far behind schedule... I made him swim until he turned blue and row until he couldn’t lift an oar,” giving the reader the view of Brother and his highly anticipated expectations which go over and beyond Doodle’s limits. Pushing over your boundaries, just a little bit over a long period of time, will help you to improve such as how Doodle was taught how to walk, but trying to take down these colossal objectives and

”,(82). The author showed foreshadowing here, because the quote implies that Elie and his father will soon be separated. They had spent so much time together, through all the pain and suffering and they could only hold onto each other for so long. Soon, death would split them apart.

To have Cosette or to die" (Hugo 340). With the amount of passion Marius had fighting at the barricade, Cosette meant the most, forcing him to threaten to take his own life. "There 's a grief that can 't be spoken / There 's a pain goes on and on." "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables" adds an ambience in Marius ' life that the novel Les Miserables never does, making Marius a more likeable character in

The cycle repeated and Michael just got used to it even so he still yearned to be free and rebellious but because of his stupidity, he is nowhere with no one to save him. In one of the cruel beatings, he heard the gunshots and this time they were inching forward at a rapid pace. The general which oversaw everything smirked and told the officials to take Michael to a different location and they followed suit as the rebels slowly took the hidden strong hold. In the days of sitting, Michael wondered how the rebellion grew and if there was another leader which lead it. He did not mind of course for he wanted it to succeed and he could see it in the eyes of the officials and guards that they were terrified of the rebellion and they know that the government is losing the game of cat and mouse which they played with the rebilion.

In the novel, Unbroken, author Laura Hillenbrand did an excellent job displaying main character, Louie Zamperini 's’ resilience throughout the story as he was a prisoner of war. In short, Louie had an amazing trait of being able to take a unfortunate situation and turn it around to success. Whether it was his troublemaking school years, stressful running career, or trauma from the war he always came out on top. Starting the novel, Louie is described as quite the rascal. He was constantly getting in fights and not doing well in school.

A fucking-Hold”(255); this use of “hold” as his last line holds several meanings. The use of it represents him trying to keep hold of his life even at his last breath as well as trying to assert himself over Ethel and death in a way by dying on his own terms. Through the use of the hold button, he is again putting himself in power as he has none left and cheating death, or fate in a way, by putting his life on pause: he is disbarred and he is bedridden. The stage directions, “(Punching an imaginary button with his finger)”, revisits the beginning of the book when Roy dictated everything and when he was in his place of power. This reference (255) At Roy’s death, by him tricking Ethel into singing to him, this is his final example of making himself more powerful than Ethel who had been revisiting him to assert her own power over him and to challenge him in a way.

But at one point the mental unstableness the war had caused him shot to an all time high when Louis decided that he was going to kill The Bird. Louie thought that only The Bird could restore him from taking his dignity by watching himself kill The Bird. The use of dignity in Louie’s story shows the impact all POW’s faced while

Yuanyi Yi Per. 8 Unbroken As a summer reading, I choose to read Unbroken. Before I have choose the book, I have search all the book on the list, but only this book make me want to know what 's happening on the main characters and how he get saved. The main character "Louie Zemperini" was a "bad boy" as story begins, his big brother Pete let he running and ask the school give Louie a chance, that change Louie 's life, and make him want run to Olympic games.