Unbroken

In the book, Unbroken, and the movie has many similarities and differences. There are three evident differences that has been shown between the two. The first variation is the dead bodies the Japanese fighters shot. In the text, it says Louie saw the two dead bodies of Phil and Mac, after the plane attacked them. In the videoclip, it doesn’t show the point of view of Louie seeing them lifeless. Another change is the Japanese mercenary. In the passage it states that Louie saw the mercenary first appear, but then it disappeared. In the motion picture, it starts with the antagonist attacking right away. The last distinction is the actions each character made. In the paragraph, it shows Louie as a strong person, and Louie had to help Mac and Phil

Michael J. Fox said, “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel Unbroken, the author tells the story of the main character Louie’s life. Growing up, Louie always had a strong mind. He became a well known track star and with the pressure of running, he never gives up what he was passionate about. Louie Zamperini suffers through a difficult time as a POW, yet he is able to gain back his dignity by having stubborn optimism and a tenacious will to survive.

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.

Louie Zamperini had a very tragic and interesting life. He was a runner for the Olympics. He won many wristwatches from his competitions. After reading about Louie Zamperini in Unbroken, I believe that the author, Lauren Hillenbrand, lucidly defined Louie as resourceful and determined.

Being held captive during a time of War can be traumatic and torturess or silent and subtle. It can take an effect on the person experiencing it in very complex ways. Overcoming traumatic events in POW camps can be extremely difficult. If they return home they can struggle with a wide range of illnesses like PTSD and traumatic war flashbacks. Louie Zamperini was unfortunately that person. He was taken in as a prisoner of war during WWII by the Japanese. He relied on his inner strength and self worth to get him through traumatic beatings, and dehumanization over a period of years. In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, it shows the detailed struggle of Louie Zamperini’s experience and how he regained strength.

Consequently, Louie looked up to his brother Pete, who almost never got in trouble: ‘’Pete never got caught’’ (8). Pete had been in athletics, and wanted Louie to join also; in an incident involving Louie letting people into a basketball game for free, the principal banned Louie from athletics for a time: ‘’When basketball season began, there was an inexplicable discrepancy between the number of ten-cent tickets sold and the considerably larger number of kids in the bleachers’’ (13). When Pete talked to the coach, he convinced the principal to give Louie another chance. This event had an enormous impact on Louie’s life. Once joining track, he used his determination to do good in school so that he could participate in the sport. Determination in his sports life led Louie to evolve as a man, and make him a genuinely hard worker. This hard work and determination would later lead him to the Olympics in Germany, working hard like a man getting revenge and using all his tools to get to his goal. This occurred before World War 2, so the conflict would not begin until later on. This moment could be considered another crucial part in Louie’s life, as the event foreshadows the war that would lead Louie to become stranded in the Pacific Ocean and later tortured as a

In Unbroken a few things differ from the historical event. For example, in the movie, it says after the war Louis Zamperini went back to see the cruel prison guard that tormented his life. However, what actually happened was he tried to see the prison guard but the guard refused to meet him as you can see from the article Unbroken, history Vs. Hollywood “He requested to meet with Mutsuhiro Watanabe (aka "The Bird"), but his former tormentor declined the meeting”. On top of that in the historical event and the movie when Louis Zamperini comes back from the war he develops PTSD and becomes an alcoholic, then his wife threatened to leave him unless he changes his ways so he became a Christian and it helped his PTSD and alcoholism. But in the movie he comes back from the war and everything is fine. But that's not to say Unbroken is without problems.

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.

As the Canadian social democratic politician and Baptist minister, Tommy Douglas once said, “Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.” In the book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, defying the many odds against him, Louis Zamperini showed us that with being faithful, you can conquer your problems. Some of the many struggles Zamperini had to go through, included pushing to become a better person, surviving a plane crash resulting in 42 days stranded out at sea, becoming a POW for two years, and coming home to find that not only his past haunts him, but his present. As a teenager, Zamperini

The Brave and Forgiving Louie Zamperini survived on a raft in the middle of the ocean, for 47 days, with a finite supply of water, and no food! Louie was born in 1917, and was a troublemaker from the beginning. Louie’s older brother, Pete, encouraged Louie to run. Eventually Louie was on his way to the Olympics in Japan. However, fate had different plans for Louie, instead of Louie going to the Olympics, he was stranded on a raft for 47 days in the middle of the Ocean, and was sent to brutal POW camps for 2 1/2 years.

“He gave up drinking and smoking.” Louie did exactly this, because he knew the potential he had in running, and wanted to reach that potential. Louie is the main character in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Almost the whole story revolves around him, and his magnificent life. Louie has grown from being a very troubled young boy, to being a very mature, giving, and humble young man.

The novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a biography about a man named Louie Zamperini who lived a very puzzling life. Running through his youth into great fame at the Olympics, joining the military and getting stranded on a raft in the Pacific Ocean, and being locked up in a prisoner camp to finally being released home.

Louie was able to bounce back from a lot of hard, difficult times that for some people they may have lost their dignity to keep on going. A quote that explains why resilience is such a key trait is when it says “A fist connected with Louie’s nose, and he felt a crunch” (145). Afterward Louie was able to rebound from the incident by forcing his broken nose back into place. This allowed Louie to not give up hope, therefore he was able to avoid becoming despondent. Another example of being resilient is when it says “The extremely low caloric intake and foul food put men’s lives in jeopardy” (149). Instead of Louie getting discouraged by not having much food to eat, he was able to think in his mind about a different topic to get his attention away from food and starvation. One last quote describing this trait is, “When the exercise was over, the men had to stand outside, regardless of the weather” (149). This shows that Louie and other prisoners were forced to stand outside in terrible conditions to be lectured at and even beaten if they did not make eye contact with the guards. Somehow Louie was able to endure the pain when he was beaten in front of everybody. Resilience is probably the main reason that prisoners like Louie survived because it is the ability to bounce back from a harsh environment that disrupts their

I selected this passage because when I read it, it seemed to make the story stop for a second and helped emotionally paint a picture of what louis was feeling based on the word choice used. This particulate passage let me recognize Louie thoughts and feelings about the situation Louis was in. I would characterize the words in this passage to thoroughly create a sudden desolate and gloomy mood for example when the author used words like ensnared, writhing, uselessly, and hopeless I instantly thought of Louie being alone and with nothing left to do but give up and let death come upon him. The author effects the reader by trying to help set the tone and mood of the story to better understand what’s going on.

Viktor Frankl asserts that hope, faith, and love can’t be forced or demanded. This is portrayed in the film Unbroken, when general Watanabe, known inside the camp as “the bird”, claims to see Louie as a friend despite his status as a prisoner. The general seems to be seeking Louie’s approval and even tries to get Louie to congratulate him. When he finally walks away, Watanabe seems disappointed and takes out his frustrations on Louie when they meet again later in the movie. Louie’s actions show that “ everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances”(86).