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Louie Zamperini

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When Louie Zamperini was young, he was considered a bad child, he would drink alcohol out of an old bottle, but color it white so it looked like he was drinking milk. He started smoking cigarettes at the age of 5 years old and he was a thief, he would steal from people and businesses anything that wasn’t nailed down and easy to grab. “I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.”(qtd. in brainyquote.com). His family was convinced he would be heading to prison until his brother Pete started encouraging him to run. He started breaking school records and that’s when he realized he had true potential. In the 1930s, he qualified for the Olympics in in Berlin he finished in 8th place, but he won over the crowd by setting the record of the fastest final lap. Although Louie forgot his promise he made with God, God never forgot the …show more content…

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

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