Book Report On Unbroken

Picture yourself being a teenager who lives in a dangerous environment, and going through depression with an abusive parents. What would you do? Are you going to join the gang environment or find solution to survive? Well if you are not able to answer this question, and going through the same situation. Therefore, I highly recommend for you to read a book titled, "Unchained", by L.B tillit, this book might change your life or the way you view the world.

The art of survival is something that is not easily learned. For some, however, it is something that comes from a natural desire to be defiant and rebellious. In the novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, protagonist Louie Zamperini fights for survival through a number of trials that are presented to him. His life takes him from being a troubled child, to an Olympic runner, to a bomber lost at sea, to POW in some of the worst camps Japan could conjure. Louie not only survives these trials, he stands up and goes directly against the normality and ease of submission and faces his adversity head on. Throughout the novel, Louie shows that his ability to survive stems from his natural urge to rebel and defy anything that he deems too controlling in his life.

In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand a passionate young man named Louie Zamperini has his life turned around by putting his efforts into track where he becomes an Olympic level athlete, but as WW2 breaks out he then enlists in the military later leaving, but only to be drafted again. After crash landing he ends up being captured by the japanese where he is tortured, and picked on by the prison commander but stays “Unbroken”. Louie is affected greatly from different cultures and ethnicities, as in this time period WW2 broke out, people who were rich were relatively untouched by the draft. WW2 in itself was the biggest clash of ethnicities, cultures, and started over anger towards other cultures.

“He gave up drinking and smoking.” Louie did exactly this, because he knew the potential he had in running, and wanted to reach that potential. Louie is the main character in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Almost the whole story revolves around him, and his magnificent life. Louie has grown from being a very troubled young boy, to being a very mature, giving, and humble young man.

Unbroken, A book written by Louie Hillenbrand, is the story that follows Louie Zamperini’s life. He was a troublemaker at the beginning of his life, but, when a friend that his brother was tutoring was deemed feeble-minded, he decided to change his ways.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a book that talks about the life of Louis Zamperini, a Olympic athlete who was a POW during the Second World War. This books talks about Zamperini’s childhood growing up in on the West Coast and focusing his rebellious nature on the sport of cross country. He ran in college and got qualified for the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Once the Second World War started he became a bombardier for the Air Force. His plan crashed in the Pacific Ocean when he was out on a rescue mission, and he and 2 other people on the plan survived 47 day at sea in a rubber raft.

A.Author's Purpose- Laura Hillenbrand’s primary purpose of writing this novel was to inform readers about World War II through the eyes of Louie Zamperini. Unbroken describes in intense detail the hardships and challenges Louie Zamperini faced with such great bravery and strength. Louie’s great odyssey attracted Hillenbrand because he had to face one of the hardest challenges in his time. Louie and, his partner, Phil had survived 46 days at sea, battling sharks, bombers, and food and water shortages, and beating the previous record of 24 days. Louie and Phil were hopeful for survival even though they, “could see the bend of their thighbones under their skin, their knees bulging in the centers of birdlike legs, their bellies hollow, their ribs stark...They held their sun-scorched eyes to the horizon, searching for land, but there was none (Hillenbrand 172).” These men were at there last stage of starvation, but were so hopeful to survive that they used every strength they had to avoid the next obstacle. Sadly, their journey does not end when they reached land because the floated to Japanese territory. Louie faces challenge after challenge and has so much motivation to keep pushing and to keep fighting which is what makes him so interesting for Hillenbrand to interview him and write her novel on his life.

For this reading assignment, we were reading chapters 1, 2, and 3 I find it helpful to me to read, take notes and write out summaries as if this was two books. I will start off each time with Wes the author. As the book opens, we have Wes remembering a day that he and his older sister, Nikki, were playing a game. Wes caught her, and not knowing what to do, punched her in the face. Joy, Wes’ mother, was very upset because Wes had hit a “girl”, and sent him to his room.

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is the story of a troubled Italian boy whose parents immigrated to America. The boy “Louie” finds out, with a little help from his brother Pete that he has a natural talent of running. Louis goes on to participate in the olympics. After The Olympics he joins the military. After he comes home he finds his wife.

Breathless by Lurlene McDaniel is a book where cancer destroys the dreams and future of Travis Morrison. Travis was the best diver in his town, and one of the most popular kids in school. He was sure that he would be a professional diver one day. An injury to his leg brings him to the hospital where he finds out the worst news of his life. Travis has osteosarcoma, bone cancer.

The most emotional, funny book you will ever read, is Home Of The Brave by Katherine Applegate. Kek is the main character, who emigrated from Africa to America without knowing much English. Having lost his father and brother, he goes to Minnesota to live with his aunt and cousin Ganward. In Minnesota Kek is introduced to new people, and builds new too friendships like her neighborhood Hannah. Hannah is older than Kek and she is the one that introduces Kek to the library, the mall, and grocery store. While he waits for her mother that is the only survivor and now is missing.

Courage & Defiance is about World War Two in Denmark. On April 9, 1940, the government of Denmark had surrendered to the Nazis. The reason that the government surrendered was because that the army was very small and weak compared to the Germans. There are thirty-two characters in this novel, but I will name of the ones that sound the most important to me: Niels Skov, Jorgen Kieler, Thomas Sneum. These people spied and sabotage the Nazis in order to save their country.

The Story of Owen is a wonderful tale of two heroes, Owen and Siobhan. They met at school and became best friends. Owens parents were two of the most widely known dragon slayers of their time. Owen, their son, had yet to learn the ways of his parents. Once his parents decided he was old enough to begin his training he started learning how to fight dragons. Siobhan who spent lots of time with Owen and his family also learned how to fight dragons. As the story progressed, dragon attacks on the town of Trondheim increased by the dozen. Owen and Siobhan researched why the attacks were becoming more frequent and found that there might be a new hatching ground close to their town. Owen and his parents created a plan to lure all of the dragons

Personally, history intrigues me. I love learning about things that helped shape our country and others. There’s only one catch, listening to a teacher lecture about history kills me. It is, in my opinion, the most boring thing in the world ever to sit through. It’s not the teachers fault by any means, they’re just doing their job. It’s just that I can’t stand listening to lecture after lecture. So when I can do research on my own, or learn about it in my own way, it makes it so much more enjoyable. While reading this book, Edsel brought things to my attention that I never would’ve have thought were of importance back then. For example, the whole book is about art preservation and the importance of art to societies around the world, something that I never really cared about until after I read this book. Edsel shows the importance of art in history through this book, which is that art connects everyone because it is a representation or reminder of our heritage and culture. From this viewpoint, Edsel broadens his audience immensely, and understand and appreciate art like he does.

This book titled The Shining is written by Stephen King. It was published in the year 1977.