Unbroken Analysis

Louie Zamperini is the type of person that has been through a lot of pain and happiness, making Louie much more complex of a person than most people. Louie is a person who started off as mischievous and then turned that into power for running, and won a lot races breaking records. He went to join the Air Force for the army, and then one day his plane crashed into the ocean and only him and 2 others survived the crash. He was next the found by the Japanese and was sent to a POW camp, and was a victim of many war crimes. The book “Unbroken ” by Laura Hillenbrand, shows Louie’s two character traits that most defines Louie are tenacious and fractious.

Months passed with little action, however one day on a mission in search of a missing plane , Louie’s plane crashed in the middle of the Pacific due to engine failure. With little supplies, Louie ,Mak , and Phil survived 33 days , before sadly Mak passed away. On July 14 Louie and Phil were captured by the Japanese; thus turning them into P.O.W.S . Moving from prison to prison, Louie faced his biggest problem yet: The “Bird”. Despising Louie, “ the Bird” treated him like dirt.”Pick it up , the Bird said. With some effort, Louie hoisted it up, and the Bird ordered him to lift it higher and hold it directly over his head. Louie heaved the beam up” (301).This happened to occur after louie was assigned to watch and make sure a sickly goat would not die. With no food to give the goat, Louie shared his although he had minimal to share. This was his punishment for the goats death. After 37 mins, “ He felt his conscious slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all though knew was a single thought; He can’t break me. Across, the bird had stopped laughing”(302). Holding up the beam was a hard to do, considering he was also getting hit by an officer at the same time. As Fearless as Amelia Earhart, Louie stood up against cruelty and injustice, even when it “threatened “ his life .4 and a half years of being a P.O.W, later Louie was freed from the

It was pessimism eventually led to Mac’s death, and Louie and Phil ended up surviving the wrath of Japanese prisoner of war camps because of their optimism. Optimism played a large part of Louie and Phil’s survival. How did Louie and Phil maintain their happiness and hope? In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand the two character, Louie and Phil, remained hopeful and optimistic during the war because of their loved ones, determination for victory, and their strength.

Louie Zamperini is a very inspiring character. From a troublemaker thief to a record breaker to a hero he turned himself around. It’s not about the mistakes you make in life its what you do about them and that was the biggest takeaway from this book.

Louies hardships after crashing the Green Hornet cause him to suffer as a POW while his odds continues to be against him. After crashing the Green Hornet that

During a bomb raid Louie and his crewmates were in Super Man, their assigned plane when Japanese fighting planes called Zeros, were all around them and attacking them. “Louie had his aim, and the first bombs dropped, spun down, and struck their targets.” Even with the chaos of the zeros Louie was determined to make it out alive and finish the mission. Zeros managed to strike and gravely wound Super Man and some of Louie’s crewmates. Louie and the remaining crewmates were assigned to a new plane, Green Hornet and a new squadron which included six new men, which included Sergeant Francis McNamara who went by Mac.

As indicated by Laura Hillenbrand in Unbroken, ¨A month earlier, twenty-six-year-old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport. Now his Olympian’s body had wasted to less than one hundred pounds and his famous legs could no longer lift him. Almost everyone outside of his family had given him up for dead¨ Louis’s life had gone to pieces all in two or three months. He was tormented, stranded, and broken. He was broken until he was saved and it make him come to a realization of his life. No individual ought to be abandoned or regarded as the way he seemed to

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

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.

through most of his trials. When this war is done and settled and Louie is freed he

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

“ What God ask’s of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who see’s him, God makes himself unseen.”(382) Laura Hillenbrand wrote the book Unbroken and took it to a new level of surprises about life during the war by saying in very good details the times of when Louie and others were in the war. Louie changes a lot during the book and then Louie Zamperini tries not to go crazy when he gets back from the war. Phil changes a lot and he is not the same man he once was before he went to war. Louie Zamperini’s families believed in him so much that they thought he was still alive along with his faith that kept him from going crazy and helped him survive.

For months Zamperini lived in daily fear of the man he came to regard as an inhuman monster. But late in 1944 Watanabe was posted to another camp. In March 1945, with American B-29 bombers raining incendiaries over Tokyo, Zamperini and a group of fellow prisoners were moved to a camp known as 4B at Naoetsu, an industrial village on Japan’s west coast. On arrival Zamperini was dismayed to find that Watanabe, too, had been transferred to the same camp. It was, Zamperini told his biographer Laura Hillenbrand, the darkest moment of his

From surviving plane crashes to escaping kill orders Louie Zamperini's story is filled with luck. Luck means something different to everyone. Some might say you were in the right place at the right time, and others will say it was meant to be. No matter what luck means to you there is no denying that the story of Louie Zamperini is an astonishing one with luck everywhere. Luck is shown everywhere in his story. For example: when Louie and the rest of his crew were on a search mission there plane failed and crashed hundreds of feet, many people would not be able to survive this yet Louie did. Another example would be when Louie was captive at the Japanese prisoner of war camps, (POW) he evaded the kill all orders issued by the Japanese in times

Despite JFK’s efforts to maneuver the PT-109 out of its way, the much bigger Japanese destroyer hit the PT-109 and split it down the middle. Although this cause multiple fatalities immediately, many of JFK’s crew were able to abandon ship before the flames of their burning ship consumed them. JFK, being the great swimmer that he is, lead his crew to an island that was miles away. Many of his crew were badly injured, and for the men that could not swim the distance, JFK attached a life jacket around them and swam them with the strap in his mouth to the island. After reaching the island, a few natives found JFK and his crew. JFK carved a message in a coconut and requested that the natives go find them help. One day later JFK and his remaining crew were rescued, making John F. Kennedy a hero and earning him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his courage and leadership. Joe Kennedy Jr. flew dangerous missions around Europe during the war, and one year after JFK’s brush with death, Joe Jr. died when his plane exploded.