The Doldrums:
The Doldrums symbolized that even through pain and suffering you can also experience great beauty and peace. Which was a big thing for Louie after all the plane crash and being stranded for so long, seeing that brought him so ease and peace.
Etched names on the wall of the cell, kwajalein:
The names on the wall served as reminders to Louie and other men as reminders of the men that didn’t make it out of the war. Also the names reflected the brotherhood between the men, and the possible death that could happen to them.
The cartoon inside Louie’s wallet:
The cartoon is a symbol of Louie’s human dignity, athleticism, and heroism. Also the cartoon is a symbolic of his spirit and optimism, his endurance, and his willing to never
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give up. The Graf Zeppelin: The blimp, one of the first things that we encounter in the story, it left quite an interesting impression on Louie.
He called it “fearfully beautiful” (1-1-8). The blimp was Hitler’s arrival on many occasions. To sum up… the blimp symbolized what was to come, and an era of a horrifying, and terrible destructive war.
Louie’s Journal:
During camp Louie kept a journal in which he logged his grusim experiences he went through daily during his time at the camp. Even Though having the journal definitely wasn’t allowed. Him keeping the journal symbolized his defiance and a symbol of his determination to keep a record of what his experiences were at the camp.
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TEXT: When the plane crashes in the ocean and the men have to try and survive for several weeks… it reminded me of the book Alive and how they also got in a plane crash, but were stranded in the mountains. TEXT TO SELF: When Louie was forced to eat the maggot filled fish and felt like he was going to vomit, it reminded me of when I tried calamari and almost vomited it up. TEXT TO WORLD: The prison camps in Japan and the living conditions remind me of how the camps were for the jewish people during the Holocaust. RAFT: a flat buoyant structure of timber or other materials fastened together, used as a boat or floating platform. When the men first crashed into the ocean they were stuck on a raft for 47 days.
This is a significant word because this was how the men survived the first part of their journey.
SHARKS:a long-bodied chiefly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, a prominent dorsal fin, and toothlike scales. Most sharks are predatory, although the largest kinds feed on plankton.
While on the raft the men were constantly swarmed by multiple sharks, and some even tried pulling the men off the raft. This is significant since they were almost the cause of Louie’s death in the beginning.
PRISONER:a person captured and kept confined by an enemy, opponent, or criminal.
Louie and several other men were kept as prisoners to the Japanese during WW2.
This word is significant because this is what Louie and several other men were labeled as during the war.
JAPAN: A country in Asia.
Many and many American men were held captive in war camps in Japan during WW2.
The Word japan is so significant to the story because this was the place where Louie was stranded for almost 3 years being held in multiple camps.
WAR: a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or
state. World War 2 was one of the most brutal wars of them all, many many innocent lives were taken from both sides. The word war is significant to the story since because of the war Louie had to go through many years of pain and suffering, just as many other men went through. Theme: The capacity of human spirit. In the book Unbroken Louie and many other men go through extreme cruel horrifying experiences. Through all the pain and suffering they made it out alive. They stayed mentally strong when physically they couldn’t. Song: The Champion By: Carrie Underwood This song is about overcoming things and coming up on top, and never giving up. For sure Louie best fits this song… Such as during the camp when the bird made Louie put the log over his head and hold it… and Louie held it for 30 minutes. It reminded me of the lyric “ I am invincible, unbreakable, unstoppable, unshakable”. Or when people “spiked” Louie during one of his races and he still almost finished first. Which also goes along with the lyric” They knock me down I get up again, I am the champion. You’re gonna know my name, you can’t hurt me now, I can’t feel the pain.
During World War II American soldiers who were caught by the Japanese were sent to camps where they were kept under harsh conditions. These men were called the prisoners of war, also known as the POWs. The Japanese who were captured by the American lived a simple life. They were the Japanese internees of World War II. The POWs had more of a harsh time during World War II than the internees. While the internees did physically stay in the camps longer, the POWs had it worse mentally.
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.
The third symbol is Bobby spray painting the wall. Bobby paints a self-portrait of a “Pale Ghost Boy” referring to himself and he is also holding a faceless baby in a carrier. The faceless baby could represent feather lack of identity because he’s new to the world. And Bobby painting himself as “pale” and “ghostly” because he could be scared and could feel like no one supported him. This symbol is important because it shows how he isn’t fully mature because he is spray painting but it shows how lonely he feels being a single parent taking care of Feather.
War is term that we are very familiar with. First, Friday defines warfare as armed conflict between organized bands or bodies. Then you really need to define organized. Gangs could be considered organized. Or how many does it take to be organized? Could two people be considered organized? I think legitimate should be included in that definition. Then again when two gangs fight, they still are making warfare. When looking at the organized part I think you have to be thinking multiple people.
Symbolism In "The Things They Carried" In Tim O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried" we see how O'Brien uses symbolism in order to indirectly give us a message and help us to connect to what the soldiers are thinking and feeling. During a war, soldiers tend to take with them items from home, kind of as a security blanket. The items they normally take with them tend to reveal certain characteristics of their personality. Henry Dobbins is the guy who loves to eat, so he made sure he took some extra food. Ted Lavender was the scaredy cat of the group, so he carried tranquilizers with him.
There was one symbol in the story that stood out especially in my mind and that was the stripper. She was a tall blonde-haired woman with a tattoo of the American flag on her stomach. I think the stripper symbolized the perfect American white woman, something a black man can strive for all his life to obtain, but would never receive. This was a symbol of the many things that a white man could have whereas a black man could not.
Some 1,500 “enemy aliens” who were thought to have connections with Japan were immediately rounded up and interned by the De...
Japanese internment camps were located around the Western United States with the exception of Arkansas (which is located further east). On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This sparked a period of war-time paranoia that led to the internment or incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Almost all of them were loyal citizens. Actually, many of them were not allowed to become citizens due to certain laws. Although these camps were nowhere close to as horrible as the concentration camps in Europe, the conditions were still pretty harsh for a while and caused internees to have various physical and psychological health effects and risks in the future.
Isolated and alone, many attempts from both sides, America and Japan, to force the feeling of invisibility on their POWs or Japanese-American internees. Separated from friends, denied human rights and on the brink of starvation demolishing their dignity. Louie Zamperini was a POW who was originally an Olympian athlete. He was taken captive by Japan while laying raft for over a month. Miné is a Japanese-American intern who had been condemned to an intern camp during World War Two. The experience that Louie and Miné have undergone are those that challenge the two in a very psychological way. However, they have recovered showing their resilience and how humans can recover even from scarring events.
The Next thing louie knew was climbing into a raft with his captain Allen Phillips and Francis McNamara being in the ocean for months with little to no food and surviving on the rare seagull and rain water, then Francis passing away. Then one day as Louie saw land and started to swim towards it, the Japanese navy saw him and captured as a prisoner of war furthermore sending him to a prisoner of war camp. Now here he was and the shell of the once famed track runner was deteriorating of what was left of him as the days went on. It was a struggle for him waking up next day and hoping that he wouldn’t be killed by the “Kill All Act,” which said to eliminate all the Prisoners if allies came to rescue the camp. But what was the worst fear of the “Bird.” The Bird would relentlessly beat any prisoner that did anything wrong, but would go out of his way to make Louie miserable. He would do almost anything, from holding up logs for 30 minutes or making him clean a pig pen with his bare hands. The Bird was the fear of anyone but Louie despised him more than anything. So when Louie though about if he would have spent an extra 5 minutes he would
“Everybody lost something, and many people lost everything.” George Robinson. During World War Two, the United States banished the Japanese Americans to internment camps. Internment camps were the less extreme versions of concentration camps that Hitler had built in Europe. The struggle for the Japanese Americans was divided into the stages of evacuation, the camps, and life afterwards.
During World War II, there were constant efforts to make Japanese-American internees and American POWs in Japan invisible. Each group resisted diversely. Both United States POWs and Japanese internees were negatively affected by World War II. Two examples of this are Louie Zamperini from Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Miné Okubo. Louie—an American POW—and Miné—a Japanese-American internee—both experienced efforts being made to make them invisible by dehumanization and isolation in World War II camps and both resisted.
The book “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by the author Ray Bradbury is a book about young boys who have to join the war some who are forced and some who decided to join it.There is a main character who’s name is joby and he is being forced to join the war but he’s kinda scared so during the middle of the book he meets the general and the general talks to him about being scared of joining the battle.He tells him that he’s the left and right hand of the war and that nobody else’s job is as important as his.The genre of the book is a literature and it uses lots of symbols and symbols are things authors use to symbolise something.
Another thing that was symbolized in the book is the conch shell. The conch is what Ralph blew into to get the boys to come together. At first they established rules, one of them being the person holding the conch is the only person who can speak. The conch symbolizes order among the boys. As time past the boys acted more and more uncivil, and they didn't pay much attention to the conch. At this point, order stated to disintegrate. Towards the end of the novel, when the conch was shattered, all civilization of the boys shattered along with it. There was complete chaos on the island.
One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. Some examples of these items are the picture of the girl carried by Jimmy Cross, the Bible carried by Kiowa, and the stockings carried by Henry Dobbins. All the items helped the respective soldier to survive from day to day and to continue fighting the war. One of the most important things that helped the soldiers is their friendship with each other. This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States.