Unbroken: Louie Zamperini

Laura Hillenbrand chose to present Unbroken as the life story of an Olympic runner who happened to be captured as a prisoner of war, rather than a man whose only story is that of the war. However, much of the focus is his experiences in several different Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, and how it affected the rest of his life. Hillenbrand walks the reader’s through Louie’s life to help them understand and empathize with what he went through. The time spent on his childhood and career is meant to get the

War can be loud and visible or quiet and remote. It affects the individual and entire societies, the soldier, and the civilian. Both U.S. prisoners of war in Japan and Japanese-American citizens in the United States during WWII undergo efforts to make them “invisible.” Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken hero, Louie Zamperini, like so many other POWs, is imprisoned, beaten, and denied basic human rights in POW camps throughout Japan. Miné Okubo, a U.S. citizen by birth, is removed from society and interned in a “protective custody” camp for Japanese-American citizens. She is one of the many Japanese-Americans who were interned for the duration of the war. Louie Zamperini, as a POW in Japan, and Miné Okubo, as a Japanese-American Internee both experience efforts to make them “invisible” through dehumanization and isolation in the camps of WWII, and both resist these efforts.

As a young boy, Louie Zamperini is a major troublemaker in his hometown of Torrance, California. He steals food and runs away. Pete, his older brother, helps Louie by training him and help develop his love for running after getting into trouble one too many times. Louie trains non-stop and breaks many school and state records. He gets so good that he is able to try out to be a 5000 meter olympian. Louie makes it to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Unfortunately, his running career suddenly ends as World War Two begins. Louie enlists in the air corps, and he becomes a bombardier. He and his crew bond through training and battles and going to an island where his crewmates help him keep up his training by driving next to him in a car to keep

Hillenbrand tells the life of Zamperini’s humble beginning in Southern California from being a dangerous young kid and becoming an Italian-American Olympic runner, with help and encourage of his brother Pete Zamperini. After the Olympics, Zamperini join the Army Air Forces, where he became a pilot. He went on to fly on several combat missions, until 1943, when Zamperini’s B-24 bomber crashed into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Him and two members survived, the pilot Russell Phillips, the tail gunner, Francis McNamara. McNamara died on their 33rd day at the sea, and on the 47th day Japanese sailors picked up Zamperini and Phillips. Over two-and-a-half years Zamperini was a P.O.W. until he was rescue by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After his rescue he became and alcoholic, until he had the strength to forgive what he had suffer.

ouie Zamperini’s life Story There are many books about war and one of them that is outstanding is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand which has a person named Louie Zamperini . Louie has been treated poorly when him and others prisoners were captured by the Japanese because the Japanese see them as threats to their country because they are in war with America so they don't see them as people but enemies and then they are dehumanized . Louie Zamperini was born January 26th 1917, in Olean new york to Louise Dossi and Anthony Zamperini. Louie was a young boy he was naughty he use to steal smoke and drink but that all changed thanks to his brother helped Louie by him finding something he would enjoy doing instead of going crime and fighting Louie found what he liked to do and what he

How does a troublemaker become an American hero? While Louie Zamperini was a child, he was a well known troublemaker in the town of Torrance. Eventually his brother Pete started to train him for track, because he should run towards something not away from something. After all the practicing, running, and winning he became an Olympic athlete.Then WW2 happened and Louie became an Airforce bomber, then a drifting cast away from a failed engine, to an American Prisoner in Japan. In Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, shows how Louie Zamperini is merciful and determined.

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.

The American writer of Happiness for Beginners once wrote, “Bravery can only come from having something to be brave about.” Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand’s goes into depth showing Louis Zamperini's bravery, showing he kept his braveness even though his life on his 47 day drift at sea. This character trait is an amazing trait to have in his certain situation and life struggle. With his trait can help the others that he is with and keep their hope for survival. In his youth Louie committed to be a courageous type of mischief: “Louie climbed the steeple of a Baptist church, rigged the bell with piano wire, strung the wire to a nearby tree, and roused the police, the fire department, and all of Torrance”(7).

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a book that talks about the life of Louis Zamperini, a Olympic athlete who was a POW during the Second World War. This books talks about Zamperini’s childhood growing up in on the West Coast and focusing his rebellious nature on the sport of cross country. He ran in college and got qualified for the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Once the Second World War started he became a bombardier for the Air Force. His plan crashed in the Pacific Ocean when he was out on a rescue mission, and he and 2 other people on the plan survived 47 day at sea in a rubber raft.

Those with the highest of talents can sometimes seem like they have it all, going through life with no problems. Louie Zamperini worked hard to get to the point in his life where he was one of the best long distance runners in the nation-fans viewing him as a superstar, not seeing many of the challenges he faced. Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken although also showed the hardships of war as well, Louie surviving from the worst of conditions when faced upon the evil of the Japanese at the time. From the start of Louie’s childhood to his days as a college student, his exhibition of resiliency and perseverance such as stubborn childhood acts and running for a living, helps Louie to learn to cope and survive throughout his service as an airman during

Words of the former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” In the biography Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, the extremely clever man by the name of Louis (Louie) Zamperini, was able to defy all sciences and survive all that life handed him. Louie’s incredible skills and level-headed thinking,helped himself and many other World War II POWs survive the harsh wrath of the Japanese government.

A.Author's Purpose- Laura Hillenbrand’s primary purpose of writing this novel was to inform readers about World War II through the eyes of Louie Zamperini. Unbroken describes in intense detail the hardships and challenges Louie Zamperini faced with such great bravery and strength. Louie’s great odyssey attracted Hillenbrand because he had to face one of the hardest challenges in his time. Louie and, his partner, Phil had survived 46 days at sea, battling sharks, bombers, and food and water shortages, and beating the previous record of 24 days. Louie and Phil were hopeful for survival even though they, “could see the bend of their thighbones under their skin, their knees bulging in the centers of birdlike legs, their bellies hollow, their ribs stark...They held their sun-scorched eyes to the horizon, searching for land, but there was none (Hillenbrand 172).” These men were at there last stage of starvation, but were so hopeful to survive that they used every strength they had to avoid the next obstacle. Sadly, their journey does not end when they reached land because the floated to Japanese territory. Louie faces challenge after challenge and has so much motivation to keep pushing and to keep fighting which is what makes him so interesting for Hillenbrand to interview him and write her novel on his life.

Imagine, you’re in the late 1940’s. You’re an Olympian, and your country is going to war with another. You decide to stop being an Olympian and and help the war effort. While you’re flying, you crash and are left stranded for 47 days, until being rescued by the enemy. They take you to an island and take care of you, but then they take you somewhere else and torture you. They try to break your spirit and make you tell all of your country's secrets. Meanwhile you’re tormented by a sadistic man, that has rows of people punch you in the face for a punishment. Then once more you are transferred to another island, with one of your old buddies, and are forced to carry coal, while being tortured by the same man. One day you and everyone else are

With someone with such an exciting life who goes from a boy who is mischievous to an Olympic runner, and finally a captive in a far away land, why have they never taught about Louie before? Louie Zamperini’s life really started as a mischievous boy, but not the usual bad like punching your siblings, no like way worse… he smoked, popped his teacher's car tires, and stole any food from his neighbors that he could. After his brother seeing his potential in running he trained him and soon, HE’S RUNNING IN FRONT OF HITLER! Really Louie Zamperini is showing that he was very mischievous and very strong willed throughout the entire book.

Laura Hillenbrand writes the story of a heroic war veteran and past Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini in her publication, Unbroken. Even though Zamperini survives being a prisoner of war in multiple, abusive camps of Japan, his expedition begins with him being stranded at sea for forty seven days after a horrific plane crash. In Stephen Crane’s poem, “A Man Adrift”, the speaker of the poem describes being stranded at sea just like Louie was in 1942. Even though the poem is fictional, its stanzas can be related to Zamperini’s true experience and convey contrasting and similar emotions.