Chapter Summary Of Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

On a search and rescue mission over the Pacific Ocean, Louis ’s plane had a mechanical failure and crashed into the ocean. Louis and two airmen survived the crash. The three men only had had military-issued chocolate bars (which one of his comrades, Francis “Mac” McNamara ate the first night), a couple half pint water bottles, a flare gun, sea dye, fish hooks, and a fishing

In pages 52-105 of Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, we don’t learn as much about our main character, Louis Zamperini. Instead, we focus more about what it’s like after he goes away from his family to be a part of the army. While he’s in the army he is assigned with a group to all be up in the air in a bomber plane. In these pages we learn about the different types of planes being flown during the war and which types are most dreaded and feared. Louie and his team end up flying in a B-24, which many men would call a “Flying Coffin”. Louie and his team named their plane the “Superman”. During this time every airman was fearful because the amount of planes lost and never to be found was extremely high. Louie and his friends knew many people who had gone missing and been pronounced dead while serving.

It’s a disaster, killing all the crew except for three men, Mack, Phil, and of course, Louie. Louie wouldn’t have survived if he hadn’t escaped the wires from the plane, which wrapped around him like ‘spaghetti’. Another way Louie and the crewmen survived is when even more tragedy struck, and they were attacked by a Japanese bomber plane. Mack and Phil were too weak to jump out of the water, so they stayed in the ship and hoped they wouldn’t get bombarded by bullets. Louie was the only one strong enough to jump in the water, so he did. In the water, something amazing happened. In the sentence, “As the shark lunged for his head, Louie bared his teeth, widened his eyes, and rammed his palm into the tip of the shark's nose”(162). This extraordinary piece of evidence from the quote reads that once Louie jumped into the shark infested waters, the hungry sharks attacked. Bravery is the only thing that could have saved him at this point. When Louie resurfaced, neither Phil nor Mack was struck, but the boat suffered hundreds of bullet holes. In the seat gripping quote, “As Louie worked, keeping his eyes on the patches, the sharks kept snapping at him”(164). This event made it clear that Louie showed that even though he risked his life, for others. He successfully patched their life boat while Phil and Mack busily whacked sharks out of the boat, Louie saved three men’s lives that

This journey which lasted for more than 24 months and all started when Zamperini and his fellow crew members went out on a search and rescue mission near the Pacific Ocean. As this expedition one on a major mechanical issue came along with the plane. Due to the plane failures, the plane crash leaving only three men who were; Louis , Russell Allen “Phile” Phillips and Francis “Mac” McNamara. (Schudel 2) These 3 million luckily stayed afloat using a raft, surviving only on rain water and eating birds. The frustration of finding food became so unbearable that Louis caught a bird and ate it raw and his face became infested with lice because of the bird. Being drifted as the days went by floating upon the never ending sea, Being drifted as the days went by floating a pawn the never ending see, one of the surviving soldiers could no longer fight the battle with the sweltering sun and the surrounding sharks, Francis “Mac” McNamara past away 14 days before making it ashore. Louis and Russell gave Francis A proper sea burial and two weeks later he help came, only it wasn't what they expected. After being stranded at sea for 47 days some help arrived but it wasn't all peaches and cream, the Japanese had arrived and approach the remaining two men at gunpoint, bounded them and brought them to prisoner of war camps. Due to famine and thirst Zamperini went from 160 pounds to about 80 pounds. After being captured Zamperini and R.A Phillips we're separated,sent to different camps and tortured in various ways. He spent six weeks on an island named Kwajalein. ” this imprisonment lasted two years and he later suffer from disease, exposure, starvation and daily beatings from the corporal name “the bird”.

Only three men from the plane survived, left stranded floating on a raft where food and drinking water was very scarce and the heat was causing them to lose their minds. "Take me home alive and I will seek You and serve You my entire life."(qtd. in brainyquote.com). After he made that promise with God things slowly started to look up for Louie, Louie wrestled with a shark and he killed it which gave them all meat to eat to add some of the weight they have lost from not eating on the raft. One day a plane came flying over Louie and the others in the raft and began shooting at them, Louie and the others jumped in the water and hid under the raft hoping the plane wasn’t going to come back for more. Around the 30th day Mac one of the survivors from the plane crash died on the raft. Louie and Phillip wrapped up Mac’s body and pushed it out in the Pacific ocean. On the 47th day of surviving on the raft Louie and Phillips were picked up by a Japanese

The plane that he was in got shot up by enemy Japanese planes while he was trying to get the doors where the bombs were released to open, but he couldn't manage to close them. Most of his crew got shot up at the end of the fight, but the injuries weren’t fatal. Louis was fine and so was the pilot but the plane had got shot up and the brakes didn’t work so the pilot had to attempt to land the plane without the brakes. Luckily the pilot managed to land the plane with the help of some rocks stopping the plane. After this incident Louis managed to hit a 4:12 mile beating his old record at the base he was at. Phil later on came to Louis with a new crew and told him that they were assigned to go on a rescue mission for survivors of a plane that had not come back after it was deployed. They had to go search the ocean with binoculars taking turns. At one point in the search the planes’ engine went out and they had to prepare to crash in the ocean. Only 3 out of the ten crew members on the plane survived the brutal crash. The people who survived were Phil the pilot, Francis a tail gunner, and Louis the bombardier. They stayed afloat by dragging each other onto two life

“Unbroken” is about a teenage girl named Lauren Bendesky. Lauren was a very active girl until May 27, 2012, Lauren found out that she had Neuroblastoma, which is a type of cancer. During the journey she had to say a temporary goodbye to her classmates and friends. The chemotherapy made her feel very sick and she could not walk more than a few steps or she would be out of breath. The chemotherapy made Lauren’s hair fall off in chunks. She wanted no one to see her bald head so she asked her grandma and her aunt she picked out a wig. She would wear the wig all the time but, realized that it is okay not have her wig so she took it off and started to rock her bald head. Lauren faced challenges when she was dealing with cancer but, no matter how

Volunteers were chosen to carry out the mission and began training relentlessly. On April 17, 1942, 16 bombers and a fleet of ships set out into Japanese waters. Early the next morning,

In response to Question 9, the most remarkable thing I thought was how Louie and Phil were able to keep a positive mindset throughout the whole situation. Even after losing most of their crew, eating raw animals, and surviving a Japanese bomber, they somehow kept their heads up and didn’t give up hope. If you were to take someone in today’s society, granted that our society is much more different, and put them into Louie and Phil’s position, I guarantee you that most, if not all of them will lose their minds within the first few days, if not hours. The strength to keep going day after day is just phenomenal.

This chapter explains the details of the start of Louie Zamperini’s distance running career. It started when he found out that his house key worked for the back door of Torrance High School’s gym. Eventually he was found out and dragged off to the principal’s, where he was banned from joining any extracurricular activities. When Louie’s brother, Pete heard this, he went to the principal, dragging their mother along for authority, to protest this decision. Finally, the school allowed Louie to join sports in 1932. After that, Pete began pressuring Louie to put his time an energy into something less ‘illegal’ than stealing, like running. Even though he looked like the only boy in his class that could run, Louie was weakened from his round

On November 1, 1944 the first B-29 plane appeared above Tokyo. It dropped no bombs. It was strictly a reconnaissance mission. Shortly after The first raid on Tokyo happened on April 18, 1942, Though the bombing did little to Japan’s war capabilities, it created a huge victory propaganda for the United

After mourning his loss at the Berlin Olympics Louie heard on the radio congress passed a bill that said if he joined the military for WWII he could pick his branch; Louie picked the Army Air Corps. Louie was shipped of to train, then was sent to

Chapter 33: Louie is flown to Okinawa and finds out that almost everybody he knew or fought with are dead. The trains stop so the men can eat and drink at their pleasure. He is told that he will never competitively run again in the hospital.

The observations by the crewmen on the Japanese war ships and the crews of the attacking aircraft are educational. Admiral Nagumo, commander of the attacking forces could have launched a second attack and caused even more destruction, but fortunately for us, he was over cautious. There is no attempt to hide the many mistakes made by the American commanders or the missed opportunities to foil the attack or at least blunt the devastating effects. Submarines were spotted and attacked and the incoming aircraft were spotted by radar, but nobody took notice. When the actual attack was under way, many thought if was some sort of drill. A lot of good men lost their lives and there were incredible acts of heroism. This book contains many tales of bravery,

In the June of 1942, the American soldiers used code breakers and hacked the japanese code. They found out that the Japanese would be trying to take the island Midway. The Americans ambushed the Japanese. After the battle at Midway, the American soldiers took all of the islands one by one, all of the islands except Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the americans lost a lot of soldiers. Finally, in August of 1945, the U.S President Truman ordered the dropping of two atomic bombs, called Fat Man and Little Boy, on two Japanese cities by the name of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.