Have you ever been locked in a cell for long periods of time and the only thing you have eaten that week was a couple balls of rice and maybe fish that had maggots on them? So far in the book Louie has crashed in the pacific and has been captured by the Japanese and been taken to several POW camps in japan. So far l Louie has been surviving day by day in the harsh surrounding of the Japanese camps and hopes to find a way out. I will be predicting, evaluating and connecting to what Louie is going through so far in this book. I predict that Louie and his friend Phil will try to escape from the POW camp, but will encounter major consequences if they get caught. I think that Louie has been having great plans to escape from the truculent camp …show more content…
The first camp he was at with Phil they couldn’t even speak to each other so they would have to talk to each when the guards would be asleep or they would be distracted and very few words would be exchanged. The first time Louie would see Phil would be on the porch of there cells and there was a doctor there that would give them this injection that had a very pungent feeling and would end up causing a huge rash all over there bodies this injection would happen three or more times that day. Louie would often find himself being punished by guards for not following the guidelines and often snooping around. One time Louie was snooping through the office of one Japanese Guard and when Louie turned around he saw poophead starring right into his eyes the guard didn’t say anything and let Louie return to his camp being very surprised in how the guard that was nicknamed poophead let him go. Louie ahs been transferred over to different camp were he has met the bird and the bird has been on Louie for a while now haunting him and torturing him and all Louie can do his take the punishment from him. ”the most vicious guard in any prison camp on the main island of japan.”(Hillenbrand
I agree with the statement that Louie was as much a captive as he’d been when barbed wire had surrounded him after the war. The following quote was taken from chapter 39 of Unbroken. “It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over” (386). From this quote, we can see that Louie was struggling with vengeance. Although the war was over in 1945, it toke Louie almost five years to say that the war was over for him because of the hatred and thought of revenge Louie undergo after the war. This is one of the reasons why I agree with the author’s choice to include the post-war years and explore this story of obsession for vengeance. Putting Part V into the book not only not take away the theme of survival,
Louie Zamperini was a crewman of a B-24 Liberator, he was a bombardier until his bomber went down into the ocean. As a bombardier on a B-24, his mission was to drop bombs onto enemy positions to destroy important caches, such as Fuel, Ammunition etc. After the B-24 went down into the ocean, Louie, Phil and Mac were stranded in the ocean, with no food or water, determined to live they held on. When Phil and Louie were captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy, they were taken to Kwajalein. Louie and Phil was then transferred to Ofuna, and lastly, Omori, where he was beaten by the Bird. In the book Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses the life experiences of Louie Zamperini to show the traits of Determined and Courageous.
I also predict the boys will find someone living on the island and become friends with them. The boy’s have no adult supervision on the island, but I think they will be able to live on there own for a while.
The essay, “Grant and Lee” written by Bruce Catton presented an exceptional portrait of two patriots serving under a different flag, but fighting the same war. The war tested the ideology of the two men; especially with Lee upholding the aristocracy of the South and Grant shouldering the North under his command. Furthermore, the Civil war served as the test for the nation to keep people from deteriorating since the founding of America in 1776 after the revolutionary war. The men share a common interest of serving their country even if they go against each other.
You kept quiet, ate the soup (even if you don’t like it), and do everything in your power to not give up and show the officers that you are not weak. “The barrack we had been assigned to was very long.” (34) The description of where they were staying showed the reader that him and his father were assigned to the same sleeping quarters.
We have had to deal with, “poor food- hard lodging- cold weather- fatigue, “(Document B). In this diary by Dr Waldo, a doctor we have at camp, he has accurately described what life is like at camp. The factors that we undergo make us sick both physically and mentally, these factors make us lose all sense of empowerment to win this war that we once felt, these factors make us want to go home more than anything just to hear our mother’s voice just once more. The absence of encouragement from other colonists and countries, and how I have to go to bed with my stomach empty every single night pushes me over the edge to give up and just
First of all, Louie stood up and defended himself against the guards, despite the consequences. When the guards were jabbing him with a stick repetitively, “Louie yanked the stick away,” showing that although
Imagine a teenage boy who is isolated on a faraway island, without food or water. The hot and sticky weather is intolerable, but the rampaging storms are worse. He quickly develops malaria and diarrhea, and on top of that, blood-sucking insects and menacing reptiles lurch beneath his feet. He has no idea what is coming, but he needs to survive. This is the story of a young boy who has to travel to the other side of the world to realize that everything can’t go his way.
Written by author Tim O’Brien after his own experience in Vietnam, “The Things They Carried” is a short story that introduces the reader to the experiences of soldiers away at war. O’Brien uses potent metaphors with a third person narrator to shape each character. In doing so, the reader is able to sympathize with the internal and external struggles the men endure. These symbolic comparisons often give even the smallest details great literary weight, due to their dual meanings. The symbolism in “The Things They Carried” guides the reader through the complex development of characters by establishing their humanity during the inhumane circumstance of war, articulating what the men need for emotional and spiritual survival, and by revealing the character’s psychological burdens.
I believe that it is dehumanization and isolation because the guards are taking away who the men are, but they are also isolating them from others and the normal world that they are used to and comfortable with. Another example of Louie and other Americans in captivity being forced to seem invisible is when they are beaten for doing almost anything, “Beatings are almost constant. Mean were beaten for virtually anything: folding their arms, cleaning their teeth, talking in their sleep, and most often, for not understanding orders issued in Japanese.” (Hillenbrand 149). They are being beaten and made fun of.
The novel, Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, tells her family’s true story of how they struggled to not only survive, but thrive in forced detention during World War II. She was seven years old when the war started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1942. Her life dramatically changed when her and her family were taken from their home and sent to live at the Manzanar internment camp. Along with ten thousand other Japanese Americans, they had to adjust to their new life living behind barbed wire. Obviously, as a young child, Jeanne did not fully understand why they had to move, and she was not fully aware of the events happening outside the camp. However, in the beginning, every Japanese American had questions. They wondered why they had to leave. Now, as an adult, she recounts the three years she spent at Manzanar and shares how her family attempted to survive. The conflict of ethnicities affected Jeanne and her family’s life to a great extent.
Can you imagine having to leave your home to fight in a war that you really don’t agree with? This week, I have been able to finish reading Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried; the novel had a total of 260 pages. Throughout the novel, Tim O’Brien narrates a series of short stories that describe his growing up in Worthington, Minnesota, his leaving home, and his arrival and adventures in the jungle of Vietnam. Tim O’Brien describes the many things that each of his characters must physically and emotionally carry. During his one-year tour of duty, Tim loses many good friends, including Tim Lavender, Curt Lemon, and Kiowa. This week, I have also been able to begin reading John L. Parker’s novel Racing the Rain; I am currently on page 110. In Racing in the Rain, Quenton Cassidy is a young man who is growing up in rural Florida. He faces many conflicts related to his friend, Trapper Nelson, and his dilemma related to running track or playing basketball. While reading The Things They Carried, I have been connecting and questioning; I have been visualizing while reading Racing the Rain.
This place was so overcrowded and miserable. The family stayed in Block 16, it was no privacy, gross food, and disgusting toilets. It was nothing like home while staying at the camp. The camp was located in the middle of the desert, so the Japanese will not escape. In California where Jeanne and her family were located there was attitudes towards the Japanese from the Caucasians.
The novel, “The Things They Carried”, is about the experiences of Tim O’Brian and his fellow platoon members during their time fighting in the Vietnam War. They face much adversity that can only be encountered in the horrors of fighting a war. The men experience death of friends, civilians, enemies and at points loss of their rationale. In turn, the soldiers use a spectrum of methods to cope with the hardships of war, dark humor, daydreaming, and violent actions all allow an escape from the horrors of Vietnam that they experience most days.
O’Brien’s unique verisimilitude writing style fills the novel with deep meaning and emotion. Analyzing the novel through a psychological lens only adds to its allure. Understanding why characters act the way they do helps bring this novel to life. The reader begins to empathize with the characters. Every day, the soldiers’ lives hang in the balance. How these soldiers react to life-threatening situations will inspire the reader. Life has an expiration date. Reading about people who are held captive by their minds and who die in the name of war, will inspire the reader to live everyday as if they are currently in the