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…
with some respect and better living qualities. The guards punch, beat, and torture Louie and other prisoners everyday without any restraint until they want to stop. They are also given food with maggots and other insects in there food. This should not be how prisoners are treated, or else this will spiral out of control and whos know where it will go from there. Louie started his journey on January 26. Louie Zamperini was born on January 26, 1917, and from the age 4 and on he loved to steal, fight, and to cause trouble.
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
them. This does seem like a hard book to relate to, but really it's surprisingly easy to relate too . Many peers have went through hard times in which they try to persevere through them. This is exactly what happened in the book Unbroken when Louie had to persevere through many hard situations. Louie was put up against some of the hardest challenges ever, and Louie never gave up, just like some of the people are age go through. Even though it's not as life threatening as Louie Zamperini's it's still the same theme, to never give up. after you read the amazing story of Louie Zamperini it will widen your sense of what our soldiers had to go through and you will probably have an idea of why we should defend human rights to prevent these atrocities from happening again. If this seems important to protect to you read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.
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.
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
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
It is not very often that someone like Louie Zamperini comes around. He had a rare combination of character traits that made him very special. He was intelligent, strong, and forgiving. There is very few people who can say they know someone like this. He comes from a generation that did what they had to do survive through the war. Everyone was aiding the war, weather it was fighting, being a nurse, or making machines. Most people would think “How can one person stand out from the huge crowd?” Louie Zamperini did.
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
The demand to survive in an extreme environment encourages certain individuals to proceed to live their life despite the hardships they may face. In the novels, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, and Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the individuals must discover what it takes to obtain the will to survive in these extreme environments they are presented with. Thus, resulting in comparisons between their mental states (internal challenges), and contrasts between their physical states (external challenges) by Louie Zamperini and Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi).
Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand is written about the perspective of a young Olympic runner named Louis Zamperini. He is from Torrance, California. Life for him was normal until the he was called into service for his country. It was then when one of his most unforgettable experiences developed.
Award-Winning author Laura Hillenbrand writes of the invigorating survival story of Louie Zamperini in her best selling book, Unbroken. Louie Zamperini was an ambitious, record-breaking Olympic runner when he was drafted into the American army as an airman during World War II. On the mission that led him to embark on a journey of dire straits, Louie’s plain crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving only him and two other crewmen as survivors. Stranded on a raft in shark infested waters, without any resources or food, and drifting toward enemy Japanese territory, the men now have to face their ultimate capture by Japanese, if they survive that long. Louie responded to his desperation with dexterity, undergoing his plight with optimism and confidence,
“I was raised to face any challenge.” This statement, made by Louis Zamperini, sums up his journey perfectly. As a young child, Louis was a cunning miscreant. Eventually channeling his defiance into running, Zamperini began his career as a runner. Zamperini became a very famous long distance runner, even competing in the olympics one year. When World War 2 began, Louis joined the air corps as a bombardier. One mission brought a terrible fate upon the airman; after a fatal plane crash Louis and two other survivors took to a raft that was without food, without water, and surrounded around the clock by sharks. Louis had just survived this impossible task only to be captured by the Japanese Navy. Louis narrowly escaped death several times in several different prisoner camps, including a camp with a particularly brutal guard nicknamed “the bird”. Zamperini was eventually rescued and sent home at the conclusion of the war. His incredible survival of these brutal and vicious camps lead to a very strong case of PTSD, which lead to a severe drinking problem and caused his wife to temporarily leave him, taking their child with her. Eventuall...
Unbroken is a biography written by Laura Hillenbrand. It is about an Italian American, Louis Zamperini. The book details Zamperini’s life, from childhood, to his time as an Olympic runner and then his experience as a lieutenant in the American Air Force's 372nd Bombardment squadron and the 307th bombardment group. Zamperini became a prisoner of war (POW) in Japan after his plane suffered engine failure and crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
In “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, the narrator attempts to understand the relationship between humans and nature and finds herself concluding that they are intertwined due to humans’ underlying need to take away from nature, whether through the act of poetic imagination or through the exploitation and contamination of nature. Bishop’s view of nature changes from one where it is an unknown, mysterious, and fearful presence that is antagonistic, to one that characterizes nature as being resilient when faced against harm and often victimized by people. Mary Oliver’s poem also titled “The Fish” offers a response to Bishop’s idea that people are harming nature, by providing another reason as to why people are harming nature, which is due to how people are unable to view nature as something that exists and goes beyond the purpose of serving human needs and offers a different interpretation of the relationship between man and nature. Oliver believes that nature serves as subsidence for humans, both physically and spiritually. Unlike Bishop who finds peace through understanding her role in nature’s plight and acceptance at the merging between the natural and human worlds, Oliver finds that through the literal act of consuming nature can she obtain a form of empowerment that allows her to become one with nature.
Louie, along with Phil, survived the perilous journey through the pacific, and continued to persevere even though they had never fully recovered from from the crash of their plane, which became the beginning of a long road. “Four more times the Japanese strafed them, sending Louie into the water to kick and punch at the sharks.” (p.121) The three survivors (Louie, Phil, and Mac) spotted a bomber plane, and hoped it was their chance of rescue. So when the bomber started shooting at them, and they came to the realization that it was Japanese. Louie jumped into the water to avoid fire, and jumped out to escape the sharks. He would not allow himself be shot by the enemy or eaten by sharks. He was very weak at the time, but fought, jumped in and out, and repeats because he is not willing to die so easily. “At last, nearing the final turn, he saw a tiny gap. He burst through, sprinting to the lead, and with his skins steaming blood and chest aching, won easily.” (p.43) Louie is running in the Minneapolis NCAA Champion, over 5 years before joining WWII. His coaches warned him that other runners would try to injure him amidst the race, which Louie dismissed as gossip up until it started happening. With a cracked rib, shoe spikes in his feet and cut up shins-he won the race. Even with every racer against him, and physically assaulting him whenever they could, Louie knew he could still
In the book Unbroken there is a boy named Louie who was a problematic child. Fortunately he grew out of those habits and became and really good runner who went to the Olympics. After the Olympics the war was going on and all young men had to join the military. Louie was a bomber and on a rescue mission he had a crash and him and the other members were stranded at sea until they got rescued by the Japanese. There in Japan he spent several painful years as a POW but eventually became free. So there are many incidents and events that reveal Louie as a brave, intelligent, and heroic man.
Unbroken is the tale of Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperini a former American war prisoner survivor. Unbroken shows how Zamperini survived and stayed strong in his darkest hours in the Japanese concentration camps of World War II. Unbroken is a very spiritual book that proves that not giving up, staying strong, and being motivated will help you in life. Louie Zamperini was able to overcome a lot of horrible experiences by keeping a positive spirit and mind (set). The point of my essay is that hanging onto bravery and remaining strong all the while being in the belly of the beast will help you survive.