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Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Unbroken, wrote a truly unforgettable novel. Now a major motion picture, this novel contained the true story of a man named Louie Zamperini going through the unimaginable. Zamperini owned an immense amount of courage and resilience to overcome his worst enemy: Mutushiro Watanabe, also known as, “The Bird.” Based out of Torrance, California, and an array of Japanese islands, this book remains a true testimony to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. Louie Zamperini owned the spotlight in Unbroken. During his early life, Louie got into loads of trouble. “From the moment he could walk, Louie couldn’t bear to be corralled” (Hillenbrand 5). No one possessed the ability to contain him. He spent his days running …show more content…
The Bird affected everything that Louie did and haunted him everywhere he went. The bird became the physical form of all the adversities that had traumatized Louie. By transforming all of his dark thoughts into physical form, it gave him something to fight against. This is where the idea originated that if Louie murdered the Bird, he could save himself (Liu Int). Louie Zamperini constantly faced trials in his life. Before the war, he conducted himself in a defiant way and disobeyed all authority in his life. His brother Pete helped him get back on track and Louie went on to become an Olympic athlete. Through mental and physical resilience, he fulfilled one of his dreams (Liu Int). Before the Bird confronted him, he endured every trial the ocean threw at him. Louie’s strong will to keep fighting kept him alive on the water. Later, the Japanese seized him and forced him to live in harsh conditions where they stripped each man of their dignity. As his life got worse, he never gave up hope and his will to survive became even stronger (Liu Int). His resilience carried him through the war, but affected him negatively afterwards. His
Resiliency is one concept that has never been the human races forte. Many things that happen in our current day and age require a great deal of perseverance and resiliency. People often will give in to the problems in their lives and learn to accept them, instead of persevering through them and working out the issues. The fact of the matter is, if you learn to persevere through problems, your life will be a lot more happy and pleasant to live. In Tennessee Williams’ play, “ A Streetcar Named Desire” suggests that you cannot give up on issues; you must be resilient to those issues and persevere to be happy.
In Unbroken: A world war 2 story of survival, resilience, and redemption- by Laura Hillenbrand; young Louie Zamperini is a delinquent of Torrance, California. He steals food, runs around like hell and even dreams of hoping on a train and running away for good. However, Pete, his older manages to turn his life around by turning his love of running from the law into a passion for track and field. Zamperini is so fast that he breaks his high school’s mile record, resulting in him attending the olympics in berlin in 1936. His running career however was put on hold when World war 2 broke out, he enlisted in the the Air Corps and becomes a bombardier. During a harrowing battle, the “superman” gets hit numerous times with japanese bullets destroying
his psyche had to deal with. He was very up-set (as any other person would be)
...le to move on from that, and instead died thinking of himself as a success.
“I think there are things that we can do to build resilience in each other,” by Sheryl Sandberg a American technology executive. The topic of resilience is also in the book “The Pact”. The two main doctors with the most resilience are Sam and Rameck. How they both have resilience is that they both are able to bounce back from their hard times and become successful. The Pact is a story of three men Sam, George, and Rameck who persevere through life. The nonfiction book, The Pact, by Davis, et al, proves that resilience is made up of social support, altruism, and facing fear, and between the two doctors, Sam and Rameck, one shows more grit and resilience than the other.
The theoretical concept of individual resilience has been long explored. Charles Darwin a famous theorist proclaimed “It is not the biggest, brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.” Essentially, individuals are able to survive, if they adapt to the world around them. Octavia E. Butler creates this notion in her dystopian novel. In the year of 1993, Octavia E. Butler wrote the novel Parable of the Sower. The story is told through the eyes of the main character, Lauren Olamina. Lauren describes the horrendous and corrupt world around her and notes of the populations response to the violent acts. The year is 2025, when the world is overrun by corruption, greed, criminals, violence, famine, thirst, slavery and division. Through all this, Lauren is able to hold optimism in the world largely due to her background, hyperempathy condition and values. Lauren creates a set of fundamental values, that she wishes she can use to shape the world and create a symbolic home.
he suffered through-out his life, ie. the war, the holocaust, his wife's suicide, and his heart disease.
anything like that but he is still pushing himself to survive. “it was becoming more difficult to hold on to himself”(pg.194), After seeing
forced to kill. It ended up that he was the last one left on the island except
On the day of the Officer's dance on Hawaii Louie says he was “dancing near the Lieutenant, dropping flour down his collar with each pass” (pg. 63). This means that he was willing to annoy a higher ranking officer to get back at him even with repercussions that would get him in trouble. On Kwajalein the prison camp he says he was “Told to draw the radar system, Louie drew an imaginary system” (pg. 141). This shows us that he was willing to help his country out even though he could have been killed for what he draw to save American communications. At Naoetsu coal prison camp he says “the camp swimming around him. All he new was a single thought: He cannot break me” (pg. 213). This demonstrates that he was willing to prove that the Bird wouldn’t humiliate him even if it meant that he would tormented for it. These are some reasons why daring is one of Louie’s best traits and why it is one of the most complicated ones he
As a child he was isolated and lonely because of his dissatisfaction with his appearance caused him to have nightmares, and sleeping problems and he did not have normal childhood. For instance, he stated "Well, you don 't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn 't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends”. He was doing
captured by Barbary pirates. He was taken to Algeria as a slave and held there
Resilience is having the motive to go through hard times and ‘bounce back’ from them and learnt how to deal with certain situations. To be resilient you must have a positive point of view on life. Anh’s book ‘The happiest refugee’ He was born into a 1970’s Vietnam, He and his family were forced to leave their country due to seeking safety and freedom from war. Anh uses resilience through his comedic, selfless actions. Resilience has allowed Anh to improve the quality of his life, and the lives of those around him.
According to the American Psychological Association, resilience is the process of adjusting enough in the presence of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or major sources of stress such as financial and workplace problems, family/ relationship problems, and severe health problems or workplace and financial stressors (American Psychological Association, 2013).
him to a tragic end of his own life, and also caused the deaths of