Resilience In Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

The art of survival is something that is not easily learned. For some, however, it is something that comes from a natural desire to be defiant and rebellious. In the novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, protagonist Louie Zamperini fights for survival through a number of trials that are presented to him. His life takes him from being a troubled child, to an Olympic runner, to a bomber lost at sea, to POW in some of the worst camps Japan could conjure. Louie not only survives these trials, he stands up and goes directly against the normality and ease of submission and faces his adversity head on. Throughout the novel, Louie shows that his ability to survive stems from his natural urge to rebel and defy anything that he deems too controlling in his life.

Imagine having everything taken away from you, your food, your rights, your family, and your life. That is what happened to Louie Zamperini and other other POWs at japanese prison camps. Louis Zamperini grew up in Torrance being a bad kid that everyone in his town disliked. Later in his life in high school he took on running, being trained by his brother pete. This turned his life around and everyone loved him. He started breaking records and adventally he went to the olympics. He was drafted into the air corp and was a bomber. He got stranded in the ocean and later was taken captive by the japanese, who tortured him. During his life Louie never gave up, he was unbroken. Even through the hardest things he had resiliency and showed redemption.

Even when the weight of the world is coming down and doubt is setting in, there still are powers to help carry on. Louie Zamperini, a famous Olympic athlete, was dragged down to a low level when he was captured by Japanese forces and suffered under horrendous conditions in the many POW camps he stayed at. Throughout all of life’s trials, he survived, due to his strong resilience and agency. He wanted to live, and even though he may have wanted to give up, he had plenty of things to live for. In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses both internal and external conflict to show the theme that people can stand up against enemies even when the odds seem stacked up against them.

Survival is living on the hope that better things are yet to come in your life. Right now in our country people survive because of hope and the belief that people are good and they will help them out. People survive when they are homeless on the streets only because of the people who are good at heart and give them food or money to buy clothing for the winter. Gerta survived because of her family and friends. Anne Frank survived because she believed that “Despite all the evil going on in the world I still believe that all people are good at heart.”

Many people have to go through difficult times, but many do not have to face what Louie Zamperini faced. Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete in WWII. While on a bombing run, he crashed in the Pacific Ocean and was stranded for 47 days at sea. He was captured, beaten, and torchered by the Japanese for two years. In Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Unbroken, Louie Zamperini showed rebelliousness and resistance while at the harsh POW camps, but uses these traits to survive the Japanese’s mind games and beatings.

Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken recounts Louie Zamperini's incredible life. The novel contains extreme obstacles that Zamperini overcame in his life, in which motifs of survival, resilience, and redemption emerge. Zamperini, a former Olympic athlete, survived a record-breaking forty-seven days at sea and then survived two years in Japanese Prisoner of War camps. Zamperini persisted and never lost faith even when the Bird constantly tormented him till near death. In Unbroken Hillenbrand correctly argues that with perseverance and Christianity one can overcome the most forbidding of obstacles.

Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete turned into a prisoner of war. Louie had a passion for running. He took his passion through school, and to the Olympics. His competitors knew he was big competition, so they tried everything they could to break him, even breaking his rib. Louie then joined the army to serve in WWII. Shortly after, he was captured by the Japanese, and held as a prisoner of war. Louie Zamperini, from Laura Hillenbrand’s book, called Unbroken, represents two strong character traits; perseverance, and optimism.

The novel Unbroken, a biography written by Laura Hillenbrand, features Louis Zamperini, a former track star and airman in World War II. His journey demonstrates the resilience and will of man to survive, even through the darkest and most difficult of times. Louie attempts anything he can do to live, which includes enduring all of the cruel punishments from Mutsuhiro Watanabe, known in the novel as “The Bird”, and surviving days upon days in a raft, dealing with onslaughts of sharks, and death looming over them. This novel’s protagonist, Louis Zamperini, changes and goes through a lot throughout the novel.

In war people are challenged both mentally and physically. When war occurs, it is quite frustrating for both civilians and soldiers. The soldiers are faced with a few more things than the people who are not fighting. Some people don’t even know there is a war happening. Louie was not so lucky. He was both a WWII soldier and prisoner of war. Prisoners of war are usually tortured by the people running the camp and sheltered from the rest of the world entirely. In the novel, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini was faced with many challenges which made him the intelligent and resilient person he was.

As Winston Churchill once said “We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” Through the hard times when you feel like nothing is ever going to get better the pain and suffering kills but it leads to survival and a better road ahead. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is the account of a pacific prisoner of war (POW) Louis Zamperini as told through and researched by Laura Hillenbrand. The book follows Louie’s life from his birth and troubled upbringing to his glorious carrier as an olympic track athlete to the time he spent as a bombardier in WWII and almost dying as a castaway at sea leading to his long journey as a POW. By explaining how Louis Zamperini suffered as a young kid, a castaway at sea and being tortured as a POW, Hillenbrand brought to light how he survived the hardship and survived all the hills he had to overcome.

In Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini transformed from a troublesome child, to an Olympic runner, to a World War II airman, to a castaway, to a prisoner of war in japan. Louie Zamperini then turned to Alcoholism in order to cope with his Post-traumatic stress disorder. During his struggles, Zamperini shows both how maintaining hope can help an individual triumph over their hardships and how finding hope can allow a person to change their life for the better. Mr. Zamperini shows how hope and memory can help people triumph over their struggles through sharing his experience during an Olympic race and by sharing the story of him being a castaway on a life raft. During the final lap of the olympic race, Louie Zamperini used memory

Often a person would think only those with the most physical and mental strength are able to face a crisis calmly, well the truth about this schema isn't all that clear. Psychologist Kendra Cherry broke up the term resilience into seven different traits she believes allows people to cope with problems and setbacks. The true story "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, told the story of three men who were adrift at sea after surviving a horrendous plane crash. The story also showed how Louie Zamperini, the protagonist of this story, had great resilience and was able to survive for 47 days at sea. Louie's mindset of being a survivor not a victim allowed him to feel like he could control the situation and focus on any way he could keep all three of

Survival skills are really hard to have and obtain, but some survival skills to me are just to keep positive. Always be positive, never think about the bad and just the good. It’s going to get your mindset in a good way and you'll be good. You see how far you've come instead how much you still need. It’s so important to have a good mindset it helps you push through no matter how far you are and how hard you've fallen . you just need to keep a good mindset to be positive.

A survival situation could possibly happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of a person or a group of people. It could also be unexpected situations which arise suddenly, such as being lost in a desert or in a dense forest. Seeing all these different survival situations makes you ask the question, what strength is most valuable in one of these survival situations. Having a strong mindset is your best survival strength. If you have a strong mindset you can be sure to keep yourself motivated and stay alive, having one will also help you triumhp over problems that your faced with, you can also help understand and accept the fact your in a survival situation, and try to improve it until you can get out of the situation.

Survivors, just like anyone, have qualities that help them survive. Survivors must be ready to adapt to their environment. Whenever a situation goes south, a survivor must be willing and able to adapt. Adaptation is the main key to survival. If the cavemen never learned to adapt how would we be alive today? Exactly, we would not be alive. Survivors must stay curious. By curious, I mean they must be willing to explore the environment and the situation they are in. Survivors must not be just an optimist or a pessimist, this meaning they have to be open to seeing the best and the worst in every situation. The survivor must look past mistakes. Survivors must also have intuition and the will to survive. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character was the survivor. Rainsford was the main character in the story. Rainsford had to hunt or be hunted. He used his ability to adapt to his advantage. Rainsford survived three days in the wild and he made traps to kill his