Louie Zamperini's Life

On January 26th, 1917, Louie Zamperini was born to an immigrant Italian family that lived in New York. His family consisted of his mom (Louise), dad (Anthony), brother (Pete), and his two sisters (Sylvia and Virginia). In 1919 they decided to move to California and his father got a job as a railway electrician. As Louie got older he became more and more of a troublemaker. He would steal almost anything from the town. In the 1930’s eugenics started to take off in America. Louie realized that if he didn’t shape up his act, people would start targeting him. After Louie gets in trouble for sneaking kids into a basketball game, Pete convinces him to join track. This is when Louie starts outrunning what’s after him… literally.

Although Donny academic tutor has tried to help his troubling problem, he never succeeds. “He admitted he’d made no headway with Donny and said it was because Donny was emotionally disturbed.”(Tyler 266) Donny has fixed his bad deeds at school, but he turned into a despondent teenager. “He did his assignments, and he earned average grades, but he gathered no friends, joined no clubs. there was something exhausted and defeated about him.”(Tyler 266) Donny has been fighting through his depression, but he eventually escapes it

In The Outsiders, the dialog states," ‘I killed him,’ he (Johnny) said slowly. ‘I killed that boy,’ ” (Hinton 49). At this point in the book, a boy has killed another boy after being threatened. There are many controversial topics in The Outsiders, such as assassination. Murder is an extremely sensitive topic, scaring readers or giving them inappropriate ideas of violence. The novel presents,“Everyone in our neighborhood, even the girls, smoked. Except for Darry, who was too proud of his athletic health to risk a cigarette, we had all started smoking at an early age” (Hinton 83). The author tells a reader that the characters smoke, even though underage. Smoking is a very unhealthy habit for underage people to begin; sadly, some readers imitate or copy famous book and television characters. These same readers may begin these unhealthy obsessions of smoking, drugs, or violence because they are influenced by the character. S.E. Hinton continues to write,“ ‘It was Dally. He phoned from a booth. He's, just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him. We gotta hide him. He'll be at the lot in a minute’ ” (130). A boy has decided to engage in illegal activities and hide from enforcers of the law. It is illegal to steal and hide from the police, no matter the reason. Readers will begin to believe these actions are acceptable, making parents and educators believe The Outsiders

War can be loud and visible or quiet and remote. It affects the individual and entire societies, the soldier, and the civilian. Both U.S. prisoners of war in Japan and Japanese-American citizens in the United States during WWII undergo efforts to make them “invisible.” Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken hero, Louie Zamperini, like so many other POWs, is imprisoned, beaten, and denied basic human rights in POW camps throughout Japan. Miné Okubo, a U.S. citizen by birth, is removed from society and interned in a “protective custody” camp for Japanese-American citizens. She is one of the many Japanese-Americans who were interned for the duration of the war. Louie Zamperini, as a POW in Japan, and Miné Okubo, as a Japanese-American Internee both experience efforts to make them “invisible” through dehumanization and isolation in the camps of WWII, and both resist these efforts.

The Troubled Man Louie Zamperini a name that should go down in history. Louie could run a mile in 4:07.9 (indoors). He survived 47 days lost at sea, on a raft with 2 other people. He also survived 4 POW camps. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Louie Zamperini appears to be very determined and resourceful.

Finally, her use of dialog in the second paragraph gives that part of the text a flashback and interview feel. It is show in ““Something went on inside of me,” he said later. “I don’t know what it was.”” and makes the reader believe that Louie later looks back at the time as important and as a turning point in his past. This also ties in human spirit always pushing through because from this point on Louie’s attitude changes to the Bird won’t beat me now or ever.

Joey R. Poole presents an intriguing story in “The Hand-Me-Downs.” Simon is a straight shooting kid that follows rules and does not ask many questions. But later in the story, the reader can tell that the violence surrounding Simon erodes his attitude. He begins to stand up to his brother and he begins to understand that he has free will. At the beginning of the story, the reader can tell that Simon is a typical innocent young kid but by the end of the story, the reader is convinced otherwise. Simon changes as the story progresses representing a dynamic character rather than a static character.

Growing up Grillo faces many issues in his life with school and at home with his parents wanting to get divorced. His problems begin when he first starts school as a young boy. As Grillo grows into his teen years his mom finds out that he is doing drugs and gets kicked out of his house and begins to sleeps in the streets, during this time Grillo felt like a worthless person so he started doing more drugs to suppress his problems to make him feel better. On page 103 it states “ i didn’t want it to end, as the effect wore thin, i grabbed the spray and the bag and

The novel Unbroken is about Louis Zamperini. The book starts out with Louie's older brother Pete being worried about Louis because he always gets himself into trouble. To try to turn Louie's life around his brother intruders Louie into running. Louie starts to practice and becomes very good at running. He becomes such a good runner that he makes it to the olympics.

Louie Zamperini had many traits but merciful is a very important one. While Louie, Phil, and Mac where on the raft, for about a day, “The realization that Mac had eaten their only food rolled hard over Louie.

Everyone has gone through something that alters their outlook on life. Whether it is a major event or a small occurrence, they never are the same person they were before the incident. In "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperinie goes through unimaginable circumstances that a common person would never be able to endure. He ran in the Olympics, was enlisted in the army in WWII, was stranded in the middle of the ocean for more than forty days, and was a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp. Most people would never begin to imagine staying strong under these circumstances. But Louie Zamperinie remained unbroken, and transformed as a man when he turned to God.

When Grant was a child, he was small and quiet. In Grant’s opinion, the local schools were boring. His peers misunderstood his quiet

Louie Zamperini floated on the ocean for 47 days, and was held prisoner in Japanese POW camps for 2 years. When Louie was a child he was very rebellious. The more Louie grew the more trouble he got in. One day when Louie was running from a teacher his brother, Pete, noticed how fast Louie was. Pete helped Louie become a runner, where Louie would go to the Olympics. Louie could run 2 miles in just over 4 minutes but one day Louie was drafted and had to go to Hawaii where Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, starting WWII. On a fateful day, Louie’s plane crashed leaving him stranded in the ocean with two other men, Mac and Phil, but sadly, one had died, Mac. Louie and Phil were rescued 47 days later, but by the wrong country. Japan took them

This article is Chris Woolston’s work entitled ‘Teen Smoking’. Woolston begins a brief reflection of Bubba Ash, a 15 years smoker who gives a short description of the painful repercussions which he has faced, having smoked for five years, from the time he was only 10. Bubba attributes smoking to his many problems including financial and health related problems. He was a good runner but today, smoking has killed his stamina. Apart from financial drains, Woolston cites other problems related to smoking as lung cancer, heart diseases, emphysema, complications with pregnancy and many other problems. Surprisingly, smoking habits amongst teens are on the rise. Woolston reports that 22% of high school student population in America is made up of regular smokers. A research by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention finds that

There was a boy whose name was simply Jimmy, he was born 1985 to two wealthy successful parents. Jimmy 's parents are both American, they have many high standards for themselves so smoking is considered a luxury and a privilege. Jimmy was in the 10th grade and had always done things the right way, even in his education, he was flawless in his execution his classmates​ always recognized him for his showcase of knowledge in the classroom. He was also known for being an unbelievable athlete in a plethora of sports offer throughout high school it didn 't matter whether it was basketball, baseball, football, or soccer he had the lungs to dominate the sport with scouts looming he was a natural. Jimmy 's habits were as normal as a 16-year-old