The Short Story Of Bravery In 'Unbroken'

On January 3, 2009 around 11:00 PM the phone rang with what I thought was exciting news about my newly born sister, Tristyn ,but quickly turned to horror. I could heard the fright in my dad's shaken voice as he told me Tristyn had to go into immediate heart surgery because she needed a stent to open up the blood flow to her heart. Being eight at the time the only thing I could think about was how she might not make it. My dad said to me “look after your sisters, and tell them nothing about the surgery”, which terrified me more than before. I knew I needed to be brave and take charge of the situations for my sisters. Bravery is something I learned for a situation I never knew would happen.

As the Former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt stated, “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” Author of the nonfiction book Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand, shows Louis Zamperini is bravery. Louie proved that Roosevelt’s statement in his case was true. Whether in the Olympics, a fight, or serving his country Louie maintained a brave face demonstrating his true character to the world.

Louie grew up in a small town, he was a rebel child who stole things and started fights. All he wanted to do was run away because he always had his parents or his brother lecturing and yelling at him. However, Louie had a very special gift in which he never put to work. Thankfully for his brother, he got him back on track. Louie’s gift was running, he was so fast and could never stop. Louie continues to compete and break world records soon leading him to go to the olympics and he tries to break the world record of the timed mile. His career was stopped and taken over when the second world war two broke out, and he enters the army. He becomes a bombardier. On his first mission, a battle occurs between him and his captain, however they managed to land the plane safely. Then they are placed onto a new plane that eventually gets shot down, Louie was one out of three who survived. These three men had to figure out how to survive even though they were flustered about the whole situation. One ended up dying but Louie stayed strong and was fighting for his own food to survive. Everything was going smoothly, they were surviving for a pretty long time but it quickly shifted when the japanese find them. The Japanese shuttle Louie and his

Louie Zamperini: Olympian, War Hero, Role Model Author, Laura Hillenbrand, in the biography Unbroken, narrates Louie Zamperini’s thrilling journey through World War II. Hillenbrand’s storyline goes into heart wrenching detail of the excruciating experiences Zamperini endured. Throughout, and particularly, when Louie’s war plane Green Hornet crashes, the author portrays the ideals of never giving up and self-determination through diction, imagery, and pathos. Throughout Unbroken, Hillenbrand continuously uses a variety of diction to keep the readers attached. Specifically, when Louie’s plane has engine failure and plunges into the Pacific, the author uses very tense and powerful word choice in order to show uncertainty and to create suspense.

During the second World War, an olympic record holder, Louie Zamperini, was one of the few men that got shot down into the ocean and was stranded for 47 days on a lonely, little raft. The great American hero we all have heard of didn’t start out like you would have thought. He was a young scoundrel who was influenced by his brother to run for something better than away from is problems. After years of running and going to the German Olympics to set the best lap run in the 5,000 meters, Louie had gone into the Air Force and had gotten into trouble at a Japanese POW camp after a crash. The book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, expresses Louie’s life exceptionally well, especially

In his novel, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O’Brien attempts to discover an appropriate definition of courage by reflecting upon his comrades, philosophers, and himself. Throughout the novel, O’Brien grapples with whether to be courageous by staying and fighting even though he is fighting a war in which he deems as wrongly conceived and poorly justified, or be courageous by standing for what he believes is ethical but become a deserter. Through the influence of others and self-contemplation of the definition of courage, O’Brien exemplifies the extremity in which America viewed courage as a necessary characteristic for an American soldier to possess during the Vietnam War.

Heroes face challenges with passion and drive. For example, in the article “Soldier home after losing his leg in Afghanistan” by Gale Fiege, it describes Army Pfc. Tristan Eugene Segers and how he became disabled in the military, however overcame the obstacle and

The French emperor and arguably one of the best military tacticians Napoleon Bonaparte once said, ‘’Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.’’ In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie goes through trouble and fame as his life progresses from being a small town boy to a famous athlete and competing in the Olympics. Later, Louie joins the military when the Axis powers Germany and Japan declared war on the United States. This results in Louie’s Bomber crashing and him being both stranded in the Pacific Ocean and captured by the Japanese, where he must endure torture as a POW. Miraculously, Louie survives in these camps

If bravery is doing something notwithstanding being scared, then anyone can dispute that Ernest Junger, apart from his politics and whether or not he supports Nazi Germany, was a courageous man. Nevertheless, regardless of how dignified the reason may be, ultimately the mind has to discover a way to handle all the carnage that he describes. You can either pretend it wasn't happening as his fellow soldiers were doing, or you

A true war story is not about being brave and how many men you killed, it is about what you learn from the things you did. It is about the

It is a rough path going from being an Olympic runner to a war hero. In the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the main character, Louie, goes through the struggles of running as well as the struggles through war. His struggles began when he was younger and continued on to when he was flying in the war. He overcame all these struggles and became a very passionate person who loved life. The way he overcame these struggles and continued to live his life is why I believe everyone needs to read the book.

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

Bravery isn’t an easy trait to acquire. It requires a lot of trust. The message of this story was that we have to be brave, and accept the things we can’t change. There are many events where Conor showed true bravery and he got through them. There were others where he struggled with courage and had a hard time getting through them.

Josephe Kosinski’s recent film, Only the Brave, is a brilliantly directed film based on a true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Kosinski does an impressive job on incorporating vital pieces of the real story, for example, the ancient Juniper tree (which still stands today) express a powerful reminder of incredible men who risked their lives and sacrificed their families to protect numerous people. It is by far one of the top movies I have seen this year. This movie takes you through an extreme variety of emotions, but in the end, will leave you speechless. Only the Brave, blends real-life heroism with a gripping natural disaster. This amazing portrait of the Granite Mountain Hotshots shows their journey from the Prescott Wildland Fire Team, a second level firefighting unit, to a courageous group of elite heroes fighting unpredictable beasts.

The movie is based on a true story and takes place in Afghanistan of 2005. A small number of Navy seals deploy on a mission to take out a Taliban leader. They are found out and outnumbered forcing the soldiers to fight their way to the end leaving only one seal to come out alive. The bravery shown in this movie is very realistic with accurate war scenes. This is a film that not only entertains but evokes emotion showing the true side of overseas combat and the situations real soldiers are put in.