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Persistence means to not give up and keep trying, and both Louie the main character and other characters demonstrate this. “Unbroken” is about Louis Zamperini an olympic runner who joins the military and is shot down and stranded along with two other crewmates. The first reason as to how this theme is shown is that Louie survived forty seven days on a raft in the middle of the ocean. After Louis was shot down, he was stranded in the middle of the Pacific ocean on a raft. Instead of freaking out like one of his crewmates he stayed calm. One quote that proves this is when Mac, one of Louis’s stranded crewmate says “We are going to die!” (Hillenbrand 128). After Mac says this Louis calmed him down and assured that they would stay alive. To add on to this, instead of giving up like other may have done Louie resorts to whatever means possible to live. Even if this includes eating albatross and raw shark (Hillenbrand 149). This portrays that Louie was so persevered to live that he resorted to eating disgusting things so he would remain

SUMMARY-In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini fights as a bombardier in World War II. Louie ends up crashing one of his planes and is forced to face the brutal struggles of the ocean. Finding land after 47 days of being stranded, Louie becomes a prisoner of war to the Japanese. He is beaten, starved, and worked to near death where he learns how to survive anything that is thrown at him. He becomes resilient which is what led him to survive.

Robert H. Schuller once stated, “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.” In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie struggles with fitting in anywhere and staying out of trouble. He was constantly doing things to cause trouble and making mistakes. Pete, Louie’s brother pushes him to run to escape his troubles. Throughout Zamperini’s life, he gains perseverance which gave him the ability to survive through life.

The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal once said, “I was always lucky in my bad luck”. The luck Louie had in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand connects with Hrabal’s quote when Louie and his two friends Mac and Phil survive a brutal plane crash during World War II, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The crew must survive if they want to see their families and friends. With some luck will Louie help these men be reunited with their old lives?

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived” (Robert Jordan). This quote illustrates that being flexible and flowing with any change of circumstances will aid in resilience. Developing this quality is an important part of most people’s lives, especially when dealing with hardships. In the movies, “Where the Wild Things Are,” and in the movie “Inocente,” both Max and Inocente show resilience throughout their lives. Also, in the book The Glass Castle, Jeanette has to overcome obstacles throughout the book and show resilience. In the book and the movies, Jeanette from The Glass Castle, Max from “Where the Wild Things Are”, and Inocente from “Inocente,” the three of them all can be applied to Carl Roger’s humanistic theory of psychology.

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.

Survival, resilience, and redemption are words that are very powerful in their meaning. Unbroken displayed these three words in many different scenarios. Although someone could say these novels , The Grapes of Wraith, To kill a Mockingbird, and The Catcher in the Rye, could stand for something totally different, they each easily stand for these three traits.

About 33% of American POWs held by Japanese captors died during WWII. Louie Zamperini was a soldier of U.S. forces and became POW in Japan after his plane crashed into the sea. But, he had resiliency and agency, he used these two traits to help him survive Japanese POW camps. Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from bad situations. Agency is the ability to take control of a situation. In the novel, Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his most important traits: agency and resiliency.

One of the men died, but because of his determination Louie, and the other man, Phil, ended up surviving and they drifted for 47 days before they were captured by the Japanese. They were taken to Japan where they spent the rest of the war enduring the cruelties of the Japanese POW camps. Louie survived all of the hardships throughout the war because of his resilience and will to survive. After the war, Louie could not forgive his captors who treated him so terribly and his life started to fall apart. He eventually was redeemed from the horrors of his past, and forgave them causing his life got immensely better. He lived to the age of

In this essay I will be talking about the theme resilience. Resilience is like toughness and being able to recover from difficulties. When Louie was a child he grew up in a poor household and he would express his feelings with no one but himself. His older brother named Pete attempted to show

"Slowly, the flare sputtered out. The bomber kept going, and then it was gone. The circle of color around the rafts faded away" (page 133). Perseverance, steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. This is a theme that appears quite a bit in the book Unbroken. In the book they were faced with many problems, one of which being the plane crash. During this the survivors had to remain strong and pushing for survival. Despite the planes wreck,they didn't stop trying even after multiples planes had searched for them. They only kept going, and despite the difficult times they had faced, they kept going in hope of being rescued alive. "Desperately thirsty and overheated, the men could not do no more than

“Classic” is a term used to describe many things, such as a defining moment or a memorable book. When a book is described as a classic, it persuades new readers to discover why it is so memorable to those who have read it before them. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, is a common example of a literary classic, studied in classrooms all over the world today. Peace Like a River is a newer novel by Leif Enger, one that may very well become a classic in the future. It is an immensely profound novel that presents a new way of looking at the role of miracle in today’s lives. However, how would a novel like Peace Like a River, become a classic similar to To Kill a Mockingbird?

It felt quite cliché and overdramatic in my opinion, it had a good moral to the story and a generally good overview. Even though it is based on true events, I felt these events were overdramatic in the movie and overplayed.

While watching this film you may find yourself experiencing some of the same emotions as the characters in the film this allows you to be in the movie letting you be a part of an important event in our history. This is what makes the film so unique. Its full of different scenarios that keep you wondering what is going to happen next. I think that this film is a very close representation of what WWII was really like.

Books such as Little Women are recognized as classic novels. Whether or not you know what classics are, people have very different thoughts about classics. The most used definition is from when classics interpolate back to the past from the dialect and attitude to the characters themselves. Then comes the question of what are classics not. Novels and books of modernistic times are almost never considered classics, as that would defeat the purpose of connecting one back. Louisa May Alcott’s, Little Women, is considered a classic novel. There are several things in this novel which makes it such a wonderful classic.