Transformation of Louie Zamperini
Louie Zamperini have lived a constantly changing life. During the Unbroken, the novel that tell his life, we can appreciate several important transformations that affects his way of behaving. From being an Italian immigrant that had problems with alcohol and drugs, to become an Olympic athlete. The World War II starts and he decides to defend his country on the Pacific Ocean. And then going back home and suffering all the dramatic effects of the post war.
When Zamperini was a kid, he lived with his family in Torrance, a city in California. No one expected big things from him. He was a kid who spend his time getting in troubles, drinking alcohol and smoking. No one but one person, his brother. He believed in Louie, and helped him training to make it into the Track and Field team of the school. After a lot of training Louie make it into the team and continue getting better until he went to the olympic games celebrated in Germany. But that glory didn't last forever.
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Shortly after the Olympic games, World War II started.
Zamperini joined the army, and was sent into a base in the Pacific Ocean to defend his country. War was hard, but harder timer were to come. His plane crashed in the middle of the ocean. Not all of the people in that plane made it, and one of the survived ate all the food that they have to survive for as long as possible in the first day. Time continued passing and nobody came to rescue them. But when they did, it were the Japanese who took the two of them who survived to that long period on the middle of the ocean and took them to a War Prisoner Camp. Things weren't easy and it took two more years for war to end and be send back home with their
families. Back in the United States things supposed to get easier, but war had caused struggles on Louie. He suffered from anxiety attacks and that made him going back to alcohol and bad habits. Trying to get over the effects of war, he traveled to Florida, where he met a young lady who will become his wife and mother of his son. But her family didn't approve the relation. Back in california and when she was pregnant, Louie attack her because he had a nightmare thinking that she was "The Bird", the japanese soldier who had made his life impossible during his years on the Prisoner of war camp. The effects of war will never end for him, even though that the japanese had talk to him for apologies. Louis Zamperini had transform his personality due to the things that had happen to him. Due to his personality he had overcome some of them, but others such as his years on the prisoners of war camp had being harder for him to superate.
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 had escaped the grievance with his life and has become an advanced soul. Louie Zamperini lived in a miniature house in Torrance, California; he was a fascinating Olympian. He was also held captive as a prisoner of war. In the book Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses the life experiences of Louie Zamperini to show the traits of optimistic and rebellious.
Louie, who has been missing for many years, kept holding on, determined to live he endured the pain and suffering the Bird threw at Louie. Louie who was courageous, stole newspaper from Japanese quarters, to draw out maps onto toilet paper, to find that the Americans are drawing near to the POW camp. Louie, who has been decorated with Two Purple Hearts, Four Air Medals, Distinguished Flying Cross, a POW medal, fought in the Pacific War as a crewman of Green Hornet and Superman. Louie has gone through PTSD, pain and suffering, and now is resting in
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
“The commandant announced that we had already covered 42 miles since we left. It was a long time since we had passed beyond the limits of fatigue. Our legs were moving mechanically, in spite of us, without us” (Wiesel 83). Elie was forced to run at two in the morning on a regular basis, and if anyone slowed down or stopped they were immediately shot or beat. Elie was mentally fit and told himself that he wouldn’t give up, however, his father was slower and a lot older, making it much harder for him to be quick on his feet. In Unbroken, the quickness that Louie showed as a child and while growing up, helped him prepare for the future of being quick on his feet as well as being mentally and physically strong. “The same attributes that had made [Louie] the boy terror of Torrance were keeping him alive in the greatest struggle of his life” (Hillenbrand 34). In many of the conditions that Louie faced on a daily basis, only someone with his faith still holding together and can persevere through the struggles in his life is going to make it out
In the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, it follows a Olympian named Louie Zamperini, and his journey. Louie Zamperini was born in Olean, New York, his family later then moved to Torrance, California. Louie is: rebellious, resourceful, among many other things. Louie is who he is because of how he grew up, and the obstacles he overcame. Louie Zamperini shows rebellious and resourceful characteristic traits through his actions.
him get back on track and Louie went on to become an Olympic athlete. Through mental
The greatest transformation of a character in "Unbroken", by Laura Hillenbrand, was Louis Zamperini. Throughout the course of events portrayed in the novel, Louis transforms from a troublemaking kid to a determined and focus adult. The events of his life, though horrific and unimaginable, shaped him into the man he became after WWII. Louis' transformation, though difficult, changed the course of his life forever.
A huge part of the story showed how a person could overcome all the odds to become successful is feats such as sports and other activities. Most sports champions show great endurance to win many competitions. Similarly, Hillenbrand indicated that Louis, a competitive runner, trained until “he (had) rubbed the skin right off one of his toes, (leaving) his sock bloody” (Hillenbrand 23). As a result of all the hard work, Louis overcome struggles such as a bleeding shin, broken ribs, and a damaged toe to set time records for many races. In my experiences, I see many people take sports and other extra-curricular activities as a burden without embracing the challenges. In contrast, Louis illustrates the rare athlete and human being who seeks solutions to
After World War II, Louie Zamperini writes a letter to Mutsuhiro Watanabe, also known as “the Bird” saying that, “The post-war nightmares caused my life to crumble, but thanks to a confrontation with God through the evangelist Billy Graham, I committed my life to Christ. Love has replaced the hate I had for you. Christ said, ‘Forgive your enemies and pray for them.”’ This is demonstrated in the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. This tells an emotional story about Louie Zamperini's experiences as an Olympic athlete, World War II veteran, and an American POW. After his Olympic dreams are crushed when he gets drafted at age 24, he experienced things most people cannot even imagine, when he returns he makes
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.
Unbroken is a book that has touched everyone that's read it in someway, Louie's can do attitude will leave us inspired to do more with our lives by the end of the book. Laura Hillenbrand tells us the life of tenacious Louie Zamperini, who went from an olympian to a living corpse to a man of God. Louie Zamperini was a troubled child who seemed to going on the wrong path, but once he started running he learned that he couldn't keep doing the things he used to do. Louie makes it to the olympics and comes in eighth. He is then drafted into the military where he becomes a bombarder. His plane crashed in the ocean where he was stuck at sea for 47 days. The Japanese captured him at sea and took him to a prisoner of war camp, he was torchered for two years till he was rescued. Even after he was rescued he was still not the same because of he had
Louis Zamperini was an Olympian and a prisoner of war during World War II. He was born on January 26, 1917, in Orlean, New York. He was a smoker by age 5 and a drinker by age 8, and had spent most of his youth with a criminal family.(Andrews) Louis became a criminal, stealing almost anything he could find that wasn’t nailed down. Louis’ family was worried that he would soon end up either in prison or on the streets.(Zamperini)
A record holding olympic runner, the man who survived more than 30 days on a raft only to be rescued by the japanese and put in pow camps, Louie Zamperini was the man who done this, and lived. Louie was a very disobedient child, he drank beer and smoked cigarettes at a very young age. Louie loved running and since his childhood he was so fast he could outrun police foot runners, and his brother Pete put this in use and later Louie went into the olympics. Although Louie Zamperini didn't get first place he had broken the fastest lap world record, and soon zamperini went to war. The book Unbroken was a story Laura Hillenbrand made from the great story of Louie Zamperini, Louie was said to be optimistic and forgiving at all circumstances.
This Large list of achievements and all the pain that he went thought know is reflected into something positive and helpful for people who have went through the same traumatic incident and people who want to give up in life without trying to fight. Jose luis sanchez lived in san antonio tx in a low income & bad neighborhood where drugs and alcohol were an everyday thing jose was influenced by his peers and he was involved in smoking and drinking he never thought about going to college or school all he thought was about partying and being around his friends all day. There is always a point in life where life hits you and you start to think about what can happen if you don't do something with your life and what you will become if you don't do something right away well that is what happened to jose. JOse later graduated high school and signed up for the marine corp for the challenge of becoming a marine and I quote “The fastest way out of boot camp was through it”. Being in the marine corps meant traveling to many military bases and knowing different cultures and people with their unique languages. Sanchez and his fellow brothers never really talked about their