Mac's Explorations: A Narrative Fiction

Chapters 12–17 describe the days that Louie spent adrift, trying to survive in the vast Pacific Ocean. When his B-24 bomber crashed into the sea on May 27, 1943, only three men survived: Louie, his pilot Russell Allen “Phil” Phillips, and tail gunner Francis “Mac” McNamara. Over the next 46 days, they struggled to survive in two small, inflatable rafts while drifting across miles and miles of water.

Surrounded by strangers, the anonymous man, known as “The Man in the Water,” was only minutes to death. With that being said, prior to the plane crash, he was on an ordinary plane surrounded by people he had never met. However, when the plane went down, instead of saving himself, he proceeded to save the others. Because he was selfless, those people gained a longer life. The plane

Then, Chet was let off of work early one day. All of his friends were still at work so he went swimming by himself. While he was swimming he felt a hard hit on his chest. He was bloody and couldn’t breathe, that’s when he say it, it was a shark. He hopped out of the water as fast as he could and went to tell people about his encounter. No one believed him. Who would believe a little boy that he saw a shark in a creek that can’t even have sharks.

During a bomb raid Louie and his crewmates were in Super Man, their assigned plane when Japanese fighting planes called Zeros, were all around them and attacking them. “Louie had his aim, and the first bombs dropped, spun down, and struck their targets.” Even with the chaos of the zeros Louie was determined to make it out alive and finish the mission. Zeros managed to strike and gravely wound Super Man and some of Louie’s crewmates. Louie and the remaining crewmates were assigned to a new plane, Green Hornet and a new squadron which included six new men, which included Sergeant Francis McNamara who went by Mac.

Louie, Phil, and Mac were all lost at sea when the Green-Hornet crashed. Louie caught a albatross and was going to eat it.”Louie grabbed its head and broke its neck” (Hillenbrand 2240). 27 days into being MIA, Louie shot a flare at what he thought was an ally plane overhead. While lost at sea, what was left of the crew, became surrounded by sharks. The sharks being daring and tried to jump aboard the crews life-raft.”A shark lunged up over a wall of the raft...” (Hillenbrand 2474). Mac died and his body had to be thrown into the ocean. Louie then takes a screwdriver, stabs the shark in the eye, and then eats the liver!”Took the pliers and stabbed the screwdriver

Succumbing to hunger and thirst on the fifth day, they killed the dog for nourishment. Two of the crewmen died on the sixth day. On the seventh, the remaining crew reached land.

Tom Murphy was a survivor. He traveled way out to Yellow Stone with only a bag of food, a stove, mittens, small emergency kit, two water bottles, the warmest jacket, head lamp, eighth foot square tent, and a three pound down sleeping bag.

After the S.S. Hato sunk Philip gets rescued by a black man, and they are lost at sea. Philip responds with immaturity as demonstrated when Timothy was saving water for their long journey and Philip wanted more so he started complaining and dislikes Timothy (Taylor 35-36). Philip was acting very foolish, but the trait is forming. Timothy claims to see an island, then in a rush of excitement Philip falls off the raft into the shark infested water. Only because he was standing up and Timothy had told him to crawl only, so he wouldn’t fall (Taylor 52-53). This shows how foolish Philip was being and Timothy had to risk his life once again for Philip. In chapter 12 of the novel Philip shows maturity and the trait has completely evolved. Timothy gets Malaria and Philip has to take care of him and feed him, while Timothy is completely immobile, until Timothy runs and sinks into the water and Philip saves him (Taylor

In chapter eight of Unbroken, the narrator follows the description of Super Man’s bombing of Wake by describing the dangers of war, specifically in the American Air Corps. After describing multiple instances of Louie’s friends who have died in combat and the very real risks that are associated with flying in combat, the narrator follows with this quote, emphasizing how unlikely rescue at sea was. Although “the military was dedicated to finding crash and ditching survivors” (90), “the improbability of rescue, coupled with the soaring rate of accidental crashes, created a terrible equation” (91). This quote, and much of this chapter, is a foreshadowing of the events that occur with Phil, Louie, and the rest of the crew of the Green Hornet. By

I take in my surroundings, as I feel my body getting numb from my toes on upward. After floating for hours, I spot a woodsy island I decide looks about a quarter mile away. I wade over to CJ and Jacob, noticing they are the closest people to where I was at. I watch as CJ pathetically hugs his only remaining plane carry-on, his baseball glove. He mopes the entire time it takes me to swim over to them, until he notices me, and he gives one last whimper before wiping his eyes and putting on a brave facial expression. Jacob smirks, knowing I had already seen CJ previously crying. My first instinct would have been to laugh at him, but now was not the time for that. We had fallen into the seas and had no idea where our luggage was, let alone where

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.

His acts of heroism are acted out several times throughout the film. Of course, he also had his boat captain and a marine biologist along for the wild ride. This plays out to be a team-like environment, in which they contributed their different individual strengths towards the common goal; hunting down the massive man-eating shark.

Robie Mitchell was visiting her aunt in Honolulu. Unfortunately, her trip had to be cut short. She tried contacting her parents on Midway Island to let them know, but the phone connection was cut. The next day Robie boarded the monthly supply plane to go home. The plane could only carry a load of 3,800 pounds. Robie was supposed to be weighed along with her luggage, but she never was. On the plane, one of the engines gave out, and the plane crashed. She and the co-pilot, Max, survived the crash and were stranded on the Pacific Ocean on a raft, with only a bag of Skittles for food. Then they make it to an island. Max is too weak to do anything, so its up to Robie to make a signal fire and to help both of them survive against sharks, thirst,

There was a current in the water pushing everyone to the bottom, then suddenly to the top near a piece of land. They swam to the small land as fast as they could and found each other once they got there. Then finally they rested, rethinking what happened and sleeping. After a while, Jimmy and the crew decided to explore their new home for a while. There was palm trees that provided shade and bushes with red berries. As they searched more of the strange land they found a sign that said “Lalop Village, population 50”. The crew wondered where those 50 people where. Jimmy was already searching through the forest looking for people and

As soon as the plane hit the water it was a race to surface before my lungs filled with lake water. The journey to the shore was tiring and bye the time I finally woke up from who knows how long my face was fried and mosquitoes were eating me alive. Millions of things were flying through my mind at that time, the pilot, where am, what do I do, food, and shelter. I didn't even know where to start. Food. I knew I needed food before I could do anything. I grabbed a sip of water from the lake hesitant at first. The pilot. I decided I needed the water so I got some anyways trying not to think of the pilot. As I stumbled up the hill trying to keep the lake in sight at all times I found some sort of berries and started shoving my mouth full of whatever those berries were. Once I got back to the lake I realized eating too many of those berries made me feel like my stomach was tied in knots and was being chewed by those berries and spit back out. Gut cherries. After that I knew I could not live off those gut cherries,so I went in search for more food. About a hundred yard past the gut cherry bushes were Raspberries. Then I really stuffed my face and didn't even realize that there was also someone eating the berries as well, it wasn't a person; but a bear. Insane.