Unbroken Essay

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SCRIPT A boy who likes to cause trouble and to run turned into an olympic runner. Just as he was about to break the record mile time and get a gold medal, suddenly a historic day turned his life into a day to day survival story at sea. It then changes forever when a Japanese plane brings him into a Japanese POW camp. The amazing man's name was Louie Zamperini and his amazing story is written and told by Laura Hillenbrand in the nonfiction novel Unbroken. Not only is this book a great book, there is a hidden message in it. The message being representing why we should defend our human rights. While Louie is in the POW camp he is treated with utter disgust from the guards. Even though your a captured prisoner the guards should still treat you …show more content…

But on the other hand his brother Pete was a great kid and loved to run track, especially long distances. Soon, Pete convinced Louie to start running and cause less trouble. Louie gradually got better as he kept running, and soon started to compete in competitions. At an early career start, Louie was breaking records and shattering his mile time every time he ran it. World War Two started and luckily he wasn’t drafted at the beginning of the war. He soon qualified for the 1936 Berlin olympics, then after some training he was thought to have been able to get a medal maybe even a gold medal in the olympics. Then the bombing of pearl harbor shattered America's navy and airforce, it was know to be called the bombing of pearl harbor. With the bombing America was propelled into the Second World War, against Germany but mostly Japan. This time Louie was unlucky and got drafted into the airforce. Louie was a gunner on a B-24 bomber. One fateful mission Louie and his crew go shot down. As Louie scrambles off the drowning aircraft with his pilot and another member of his crew, they inflated a raft and tried to stay alive on the open sea... WAIT A COUPLE SECONDS... Its day 47 when they see the worst sight they could ever sea coming right at

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