How Does Unbroken Make Me

Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best seller, the film Unbroken is an inspiring, three-time Oscar nominated, World War II biography that tells the story of a young man, Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell), enduring the unimaginable brutalities of war. Directed by Angelina Jolie and produced by Erwin Stoff, this film is a story of survival, resilience, and redemption. Although this movie has some tear-jerking moments and a few memorable quotes, it seems to have fallen flat when it comes to the emotional aspect of the lead character’s experience.

Well-known nonfiction author Laura Hillenbrand, in her best-selling biography, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, describes the chilling reality faced by those living in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. As the title suggests, this is not the typical World War II tale of hardship that ends in liberation; rather, it follows the main character, Louis “Louie” Zamperini, through his childhood, Olympic performances, and military career leading up to his captivity, as well as his later marriage and many years of healing. Hillenbrand's purpose is to impress upon her readers the scale of this tragedy as well as remind them of the horror that so many nameless soldiers endured. She adopts an emotional yet straightforward tone in order to get readers to sympathize with the characters and truly understand what they went through. To do so, she manages to make the unique story of one man represent the thousands of others going through the same tragedy.

Laura Hillenbrand’s biography titled Unbroken recounts the life of Louie Zamperini and major events that occurred throughout it. Hillenbrand’s purpose was to emphasize the inspirational story of heroic Zamperini as he qualified and participated in the Olympics, as well as describe the endless struggle of pain in the plane crash and in the Japanese POW camps. She also portrays the importance of dignity and resilience and how without it, the chances of surviving the cruel events Louie experienced during World War II would have been minimal.

This horrific story really opened my eyes because I had no absolutely idea what war was like and could not imagine what it was like for a child to endure.

Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken is a literary masterpiece. Throughout this compelling story of Louis Zamperini uprising and downfalls, laura tells his story of how he survived his way through the grueling view of world war II and racing. Laura Hillenbrand displays many aspects about Imagery, diction, syntax and tone. There were many instances during the book Unbroken where the writing was impressive, effective and interesting.

This book shows many lessons and showed the different sides of the story and how WWII changed many lives. One lesson i learned from this book

They encountered many obstacles such as delaying 24 hours due to Japanese soldiers leaving the camp unexpectedly. This book shows the courage of all soldiers and prisoners involved in these events. Even with such an amazing and thrilling plot base, this book was incredibly difficult to sit and read. Readers find themselves becoming lost and rereading passages and pages. While I greatly respect all of the prisoners and soldiers for their courage and strength during this incredibly troublesome encounter, this book did their valor no justice.

I recently read your book Unbroken. I really enjoyed it. I also watched the movie made from your book too. The thing is, I loved your book way more than the movie, because, even though the movie was good, you didn’t get to know the feelings and thoughts of the characters. Your book was filled with very descriptive feelings of Louie and some of the other characters and I really enjoyed it because it felt like I was there, in the war camp with Louie. Have you ever been to Japan? My cousin works for the Navy in Japan and I hope to visit her soon. From your book Unbroken, I learned many valuable life lessons. Just a few are to always be content with what you have, never underestimate friendship, and never give up.

Reading a fictitious account of a seemingly depressed soldier and learning of all the hardships that come along with the first World War are truly captivating subjects that readers do not have personal experience with. The soldiers who did not even know what they were fighting for, and had no drive to continue fighting. The soldiers who dealt with the battle against Death on a daily basis, living in fear. The soldiers who had to watch as their friends and comrades died in amazingly gruesome deaths and having no way of saving them. The soldiers who had to fight on low resources of food and water.

War represents much more than just men fighting for their country. It is suffering, companionship, and more importantly pride. War itself is a very controversial topic because people are either completely against it or completely for it. In Laura Hillenbrad's novel, Unbroken, she explains the story of a man who experiences extreme obstacles and shows tremendous courage. The themes of suffering and perseverance portrayed in this novel show why the war is a very controversial topic.

The reason why I am sweatpants is because when people are sad or need solace they come to me. When people are upset they just want to go home, throw on their coziest sweatpants and cuddle up in bed. I seem to be the person people go to when they have had a bad day, much like sweatpants.

The novel deepens our existing knowledge of the historical period because it allows all Americans realize that's we treated the Japanese, who were innocent, with a type of disdain. In history, we hear all about the Jewish concentration camps, but you hardly hear about the Japanese internment camps. In a country that preaches freedom,and whose core judicial belief is innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, it symbolizes America’s hypocrisy because we treated the Japanese as guilty without trial or even giving the, a chance to prove their innocence. It’s a dark stain on our history, but it is essential to learn from our mistakes, so it will not occur again.

Speaking of Courage seriously captures what it is like for a soldier to attempt to return to their homeland and have to stop being a soldier due to the citizen culture that influences his or her society. Americans may be squeamish about war but they are ready and willing to send our

Hillenbrand, L. (2010). Unbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption. New York: Random House.

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