Ambition In The Book Unbroken

It was apparent, throughout the story, that Louie was a survivor. There were countless events throughout the story in which Louie´s ability to survive is seen clearly. One of these occurred when Louie clocked the fastest time for the mile in NCAA history. Louie was able to do this despite being spiked, clubbed, and trapped from moving forward in the race. This is apparent when Hillenbrand writes, “He burst through, blew past the race leader, and, with his shoe torn open, shins streaming blood, and chest aching, won easily”(44). Another example of his survival trait appearing strongly in the story occurred in the raft. After lying in a raft for weeks, Louie was still

Laura Hillenbrand chose to present Unbroken as the life story of an Olympic runner who happened to be captured as a prisoner of war, rather than a man whose only story is that of the war. However, much of the focus is his experiences in several different Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, and how it affected the rest of his life. Hillenbrand walks the reader’s through Louie’s life to help them understand and empathize with what he went through. The time spent on his childhood and career is meant to get the

Louie’s athletic career definitely prepared him for what he would encounter in the war. Through his extensive training and unprecedented success, Louis gained a wide variety of traits and abilities that can be predicted to be essential for him as he faces the challenges of war. One obvious and major way that his athletic career prepared him for the war was by increasing his physical ability. In the novel, Louie is a long-distance runner in the 1936 Olympics, in which he placed eighth (Hillenbrand 35). Through his all encompassing physical training, Louie became extremely competent in physical endurance and strength. As it can easily be assumed, having good endurance can prove to be life-saving in war, especially in Louie was ever in a situation

As a young boy, Louie Zamperini is a major troublemaker in his hometown of Torrance, California. He steals food and runs away. Pete, his older brother, helps Louie by training him and help develop his love for running after getting into trouble one too many times. Louie trains non-stop and breaks many school and state records. He gets so good that he is able to try out to be a 5000 meter olympian. Louie makes it to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Unfortunately, his running career suddenly ends as World War Two begins. Louie enlists in the air corps, and he becomes a bombardier. He and his crew bond through training and battles and going to an island where his crewmates help him keep up his training by driving next to him in a car to keep

From the beginning, Hillenbrand highlights a series of specific details to exaggerate Zamperini’s uncontainable personality that would carry him through the war. Page fifteen states, “To get even with a railcar conductor who wouldn’t stop for him, Louie greased the rails. When a teacher made him stand in the corner for spitballing, he deflated her car tires with toothpicks. After

Unbroken: The many faces of Louie Zamperini A man faces hunger, dehydration, diseases, and worst of all the loss of his family. In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini faces monstrous situations as he tries to survive in inhumane conditions during Word War II. During his adventure, he displays many traits that shape the path of the story.

Louie was able to survive in the raft because of his brother Pete, his Olympic experience and he was smart and papered, to a degree. Pete influenced his survival because before Louie joined the war Pete helped train him for the Olympics, when Pete pushed and encouraged him to never stop and to always keep his head up, which help Louie not give up on the raft and keep fighting for his life. The text states on pages 15, “from that day on Pete was all over Louie for him to train,” this proves that Pete pushed Louie, which thought Louie to never stop and to always keep going. The Olympic experience helped Louie survive because it thought him to take the pain and keep going. The text states on page 44, “…as he neared the final turn he saw a tiny

The American author Og Mandino once said,”sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.”In Laura Hillenbrand’s biography Unbroken, the considerable Louis Zamperini exemplified Og Mandion’s out look beating as a world war II soldier,took on anything handed to him from shark attacks to a prisoner of war in japan. It was Zamperini’s Determination that pushed each other to continue to survive in which Hillenbrand convyed his captivating biography.

Louie is a wise person, but can have his moments of messing up. At the age of 18, Louie enlisted in the army. As his life continued Louie went and fought against the Japanese, including once where the B-4 was shot down. The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, describes Louie with the character traits determined and resilient.

“Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit”, Wade Davis an MLB player once said. This is apparent in the book Eyes of The Emperor, by Graham Salisbury because the main character, Eddy goes through many hardships but remains powerful throughout them all. When the United States Army is looking for new recruits, Eddy decides that he wants to join up and show the world how brave and loyal he can be to his country. Him and several other men then get put on a secret mission to stop enemy which tests their amounts of courage and patriotism. Without a doubt, the clear theme throughout this book is that patriotism requires a lot of bravery. This is true because Eddy

Revenge, ambition, and envy can all disrupt a society. Claudius, in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Commodus, in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, are both disturbing the order of society caused by their thirst for ambition, ultimately leading to the death of these men. To begin with, the jealousy and ambition in the cruel men blind them from the true facts. Finally, both Claudius and Commodus will do anything to achieve and maintain their positions and make sure no one gets in their way.

Considered as one of the best-selling novels, Unbroken A Story of Redemption and Forgiveness by Laura Hillenbrand is a perfect entry on its own. As reviewers and audience get transfixed towards the completely engaging and almost unbelievable story line of the novel, the true story is more than just any war story and survival. Rather, it is of pain, suffering, hatred, forgiveness and love. Promising in its literary content and its overall reading experience, the novel is considered as one of the best literary publications of 2014. More than just a story of redemption and war, pain and suffering, hatred and vengeance, is a story of humility and forgiveness. It is a perfect life-changing story readers will be able to feel and reach out. "There is no limit to pain, the indignities and the humiliation a man can take and not only endure but prevail" (Pruden 1). These words fit perfectly to the character of Louis Zamperini and his story of survival in World War II. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand was an extraordinary story of redemption, forgiveness, beauty of character amidst the pain of losing, battle of endurance and struggle for survival. The novel by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, is an extraordinary story of compassion, forgiveness and redemption coming from the lonely and horrible ordeal of pain, decomposition and torture which symbolizes miracle masterpiece of human experience to remember life as beautiful and highly inspirational.

The plot of “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, is interesting because it gives the reader a realistic sense of what it was like to be in WWII as prisoner of war. Louie Zamperini was a troubled child. “A smoker at age 5 and a drinker by 8, he stole anything that wasn’t nailed down from neighbors and local businesses.” Zamperini blackened the eyes of any kids that dared challenge him, he also slashed a teacher’s car tires after she disciplined him and “Once even lobbed tomatoes at a cop.” One day Louie went to a track meet to try and pick up girls at this point louie's life changed. The author Laura Hillenbrand took louis troubled past and turned it into something he could use in his fight to survive when beaten and starved in the pow camps during

In 1929, Louie, and Pete, who is his brother, arise in the morning to not only see, but also hear a massive German aircraft called the Graf Zeppelin, fly over their house. Louie has always in his childhood

One day, louie was about to be banned from all school activities, because he was illegally selling tickets to the basketball games. However, Pette mannaged to convince the Principal to wave his punishment. Because Pette had believed that if he was put in sports he might be able to, turn his delinquent brother into a track star.