Resilience In Unbroken

The story “Unbroken” by Laura hillenbrand is an excellent book about Louis Zamperini a world class track star who gets drafted into the military during World War Two. During a routine flight Louis along with his crewmates they engines fall and their plane suddenly comes crashing down into the Pacific Sea. Only two other crewmates survive the crash and they are then stranded on a raft. They all knew that only through sheer willpower would they survive. Just as things started to look down a ship approaches flying a white flag with a red circle.

After conquering horrific tragedies during World War Two, Louie Zamperini commented, “I didn’t know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.” (Hillenbrand, FIGURE OUT IF AND WHERE IT IS IN THE BOOK.) In Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken, he showed absolute determination to survive insurmountable obstacles. Throughout his life and everything he endured, he was determined he was going to make it through. In fact, Louie decided he would be whatever he put his mind to. If he was going to run, then by golly he was going to run, and if he wanted to make it out of a POW camp, then

Year of Wonders and The Crucible both explore how the resilience of the human spirit is tested at times of crisis. Discuss.

People sometimes have tough ordeals. Some may act negatively toward the problem, but the people that act positively toward the problem are able to see hope in places where they wouldn’t expect it to be in. People have been through cruelty, yet they continue to stay positive. People still have the positivity to cling onto their last hope, or even continue to think positively when there is no hope at all. People like Anne Frank, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, continue to stay positive throughout the horrible ordeals that have happened. Some of the Japanese in Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference have continued to stay hopeful while in internment

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.

Louie Zamperini was a young boy who lived in Torrance, California, living his early years with a troublesome attitude. His childhood was filled with hatred, anxiety, sorrow, but in the end, it all led to happiness. Louie was a young man competing as an olympic athlete, until he went off to war as a bombardier. As he and his crew members flew a B-24 over the Pacific ocean, his life had turned upside down. The character traits of optimism and resourcefulness that Louie demonstrates in Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand, helped him get through the hardest times in life.

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.

While Louie was in the camp he was able to withstand and actually rebel against the Japanese. In chapter 24 the POWs would steal from the camp. Chapter 24 page 250, “One group stole all the ingredients for a cake, only to discover, upon baking it, that the flour was actually cement.” In Chapter 28, Louie almost broke

In her book, Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand vividly illustrates the suffering surpassed by the protagonist, Louie. By doing so, Hillenbrand depicts the cruelty of Japanese prisoner of war detainment camps throughout the duration of the Second World War. Louie's interminable determination and perseverance reveals the concealed dexterity of human nature while exploring not only American political and social values, but also the global spiritual contingency throughout moments of disdain.

In the book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini is a person who does not give up and is determined to get through anything. Along Louie’s journey in life he is faced with many obstacles. Although some are harder than others he gets through them. Having this trait from childhood had paid off when he had crashed and when he was captured as a prisoner. There was a time when Louie did almost lose hope and gave up.

Famous American author and political activist Helen Keller once said, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” In the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis lives these words by showing his courage when he was stranded at sea and harshly treated in a POW camp. Along with two other men, he survived a dangerous WWII plane crash and managed to survive on a small life raft for many weeks. Throughout his ordeal, Louis managed to keep his head and stay strong.

When it came to bullies, both from childhood or from POW camps, he could always take blows and still hold a smile on his face. As a child, bullies would beat him, offend him, yet he wouldn’t put up a fight for he was much stronger than that. While ate sea, Louie began hallucinating and dreaming, knowing that if the hunger didn’t kill him, his insane mind would. He decided that he couldn’t let that happen and began exercising his brain, having conversations with Phil, discussing pasts, futures, and food in order to keep a sharp mind. Essentially, the time where this prominent feature was shown was when he was at the POW camp with the devious corporal, Mutsuhiro Wantanbe, other known as the Bird; the Bird would beat him daily, trying to ruin him and lessen his spirits, but Louie would do nothing to loose his dignity. The Bird tried so hard to break him and destroy his soul, but Louie would never falter. On one account, the Bird ordered Louie to hold up a heavy beam as a consequence of the death of a goat (whom was killed by the Bird himself), and if he dropped it he would be beaten. There he stood, heaving the beam over his head, while the Bird and guards mocked and laughed at him, all while thinking the one very thought of that “He [the Bird] cannot break

This essay will highlight that even though faced with the horrific reality of war. Bill Leadley demonstrates that the human spirit is tenacious enough to pull one through.

Many people suffer problems in the world today. This includes terrorism and tyranny. It includes kidnapping and hate crime. It can also be cancer and starvation. Many have lived through problems like these and told the tale because they persevered. Through Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, Wiesel’s Night, and Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, perseverance is emphasized the readers by writing about characters, whether they are survivors of the Holocaust, a prisoner of war, or family, that have to suffer obstacles that can potentially kill them if they don’t overcome it. Even though each author has a different way to show perseverance, they all agree on what perseverance can do. Persevering through unfortunate situations

An expectation is, “ a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.” In the words of an anonymous writer, “Be what you expect of yourself, not what others expect of you.” Correspondingly, Scott Westerfeld evokes a similar belief in his novel, The Uglies. Inside a society of professed uglies, individuals are segregated by the ideological pretties. Ideally, the authorities of the community anticipate all citizens to become pretty surgically. However, their expectations are not valued by all. Moreover, The Uglies, in addition to two ancillary texts, “The Art of Resilience” by Hara Marano, and “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri, includes conflict, setting, and characterization, which are all supportive of a general theme, that beauty is more than one’s vanity. Together with, creating the unifying idea that propels The Uglies, “The Art of Resilience,” along with “The Third and Final Continent,” where everyone must be his or her own person not the person others expect.