...Louie Zamperini was just a boy who liked to cause trouble. He would sneak around and steal many things. But little did he know that once he had got involved in war, the plane he was in, would crash with only 3 people surviving including himself. Louie and the two men that had also survived try to find ways of staying alive, using the objects that they only had in the raft. Once one of their partners passed away right in front of them, they soon got captured by the Japanese and were very mistreated. After Louie had stopped stealing, his brother Pete had encouraged him into running. He then started practicing and ran everywhere. Soon enough, he had won about every meet he had, even beating the high schoolers. With everything coming so fast, Louie then realized he was at the Olympics. In the novel, Unbroken Lauren Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his two most important...
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...life of Louie Zamperini a POW that is so close to being able to reunite with his family. In this journal I will be doing Character vs. Character, nature and society. The bird is a person that Louie can definitely go without in his life but he has to absorb the birds abuse and torture he puts on Louie. Louie has tested the Bird so many times by breaking the bird not the bird breaking Louie. Louie has not heard about the war and same as all of the other POW’S they are very curious about what is happening in the war. Louie and the POW’S will often get abused on a certain level of pain being determined by how japan is doing in the war. Louie is now approaching 2 years in the POW camp and is getting tortured and having to do painful exercises day in and day out. He is often holding a huge grudge on the Bird more than any other guard. Louie has a plan to capture and throw the Bird off the bridge with a boulder attached to his foot and make him drown once the Bird is captured.”...
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...Have you ever had to do something that you didn’t want to do? Louie Zamperini and Minè Okubo have had to do just that, in their journeys through life. Louie was a young adult that loved to run and compete in competitions. Then when Louie joined the Army Air Corps. In November 1941, he arrived at a flight school in Houston. They were making him a bombardier. He had to go to the war in Japan. Minè was a first generation Japanese-American(Nisei). She was an artist and she loved her family very much that she made a painting about her mother after she passed. When louie finally came back from the war in Japan he didn’t recover very well, he became an alcoholic and basically avoided his wife and his baby girl. Minè on the other hand was not like that she moved in...
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...Louie Zamperini was a trouble maker, thief, and one to waste true potential, but he began running and with that it lead him down a somewhat exciting life. It’s stated in the book when he finally surrendered to his brother Pete, he says he’s going to be a runner and was going to go all out. (Page 16). That summer Louie ran and ran and tried his very best to improve not just for him, but for the one that had faith in him when no one did. Louie showed true perseverance because he didn’t just give up when running became tough; he pushed thru. Louie is someone who truly wants it and is willing to work for it, not like his past self who would give up and run back to committing petty crimes. Next, on July 3, 1936 when Louie was trying to qualify...
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...Unbroken, directed and produced by Angelina Jolie, is the true story of Louis Zamperini and his fight for survival over the Pacific. Unbroken received a pg-13 rating for war violence, sequences of brutality, and brief language. Some of the writers included Laura Hillenbrand, the author of the book, Ethan and Joel Coen, Richard LaGravanese William Nicholson. Unbroken was officially released December 25, 2014. Unbroken is a phenomenal work of production because of its experienced director and producers, hand-picked cast and smooth graphics. Unbroken is the story of Olympian track runner and WWII B-24 bombardier Louis Zamperini. After his plane goes down over the Pacific, he, the pilot and tail gunner survive shark attacks, starvation,...
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...Louis Zamperini was born to Italian immigrants on January 26, 1917 in Olean, New York. From a high school track star becoming an Olympic athlete and meeting Adolf Hitler, to being taken as a prisoner of war in World War II, Louis Zamperini lived a strenuous life but remained unbroken. Even when Zamperini was young, he had a full life. He was a high school track star at Torrence High School in Torrence, California. Biograhy.com notes that Zamperini set a high school record at Torrence in 1934, “his time of 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds.” No one beat the record for a full twenty years. Zamperini continued to improve his running. In 1936, he went to New York City for the Olympic trials for the 5,000 meter race. While there, he raced against Don Lash, the world record holder in the event. After a hard fight at the trials in New York, Zamperini qualified for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. He trained for only...
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...of Louis Zamperini, know by his friends as Louie, and how he goes from a troubled child, to an Olympic athlete, to being stranded at sea. As a young child Louie was very mischievous; he was drinking, smoking, and stealing all before he was 10 years old. To keep him out of trouble, Louie’s brother got him to join the track team. Little did he know, Louie had the potential to be a tremendous runner. After countless hours of strenuous practice...
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...book Unbroken, Louie Zamperini was a famous American olympian, who had been beaten and enslaved into strenuous labor during WWII. As a child he was unruly and anarchistic. Louie’s main enemy was none other than Mutsuhiro Watanabe, nicknamed “The Bird,” the sadistic guard who would beat Louie and the other POWs daily, stripping their...
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...the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Louie lived by these words, when L. Zamperini shows his skill in the sport of track, with blood, sweat, and tears along his journey to compete in the Olympics. Following, Louie honed his skills in the Air force during WWII, to help him survive the “punishment” (P.O.W.) camp, Ofuna. Hillenbrand described Louie as a skilled delinquent at the beginning of the book, often stealing and participating in pranks. In high school, however, Pete introduced Louie to running; and Louie showed tremendous amounts of skill and athleticism, taking to the sport extremely...
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...As a child Louie Zamperini has been rebellious and courageous from the start, stealing food from the windows of families, to giving one of the worst guards a silly haircut while Louie was a POW. While Louie was a child he was often getting into fights, drinking alcohol, to smoking, not to mention Louie was resilient towards stopping being a troubled child until Louie’s brother, Pete, got Louie into running Throughout the whole book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand the reader learns that Louis (Louie) Zamperini is both courageous and rebellious Throughout the book, the reader can obviously see that Zamperini is a rebellious child and even a rebellious adult One example of Zamperini being rebellious is, “Shaving the Weasel’s forehead, he thinned...
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...Forgive and Be Loyal But Never Forget Louie Zamperini, from olympian and airman, to castaway and prisoner of war. Louie Zamperini, a troubled boy in the past to runner, trained for the olympics. When they were cancelled, he went to war. With a sudden plane crash, he was lost at sea and became a prisoner of war where he was beat unconscious. When America won the war, Louie lost himself but remembered a promised he had made to serve god, therefore forgiving everyone who had tortured him. Unbroken, a novel written by Laura Hillenbrand, has shown people the many sides of Louie Zamperini, including his best traits, being forgiving and loyal. Louie Zamperini learned to forgive people who had hurt him and that violence wouldn’t solve his problems. In Louie’s interview with Laura Hillenbrand, he was asked “If you had killed the Bird, do you think you would have gotten over the war?” (291). In reply, Louie explained “I don’t think so… but I don’t know what kind of satisfaction that would be,” (291). Because Louie is very forgiving, he realized that hurting the Bird wouldn’t solve anything. He realized that forgiving someone is the right thing to do and that forgiving someone is the only way that you can actually move on and live your life. When Mac ate all of the chocolate, Louie “...understanding that Mac had acted in panic, he reassured him they...
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...In a story of hardship and perseverance, a troubled child grows into an incredible man with many recognizable accomplishments. In Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, Louie Zamperini was scrawny and mislead as a child, who was bullied aggressively, stole instinctively, and eventually turned out to be a superstar at track. Zamperini’s past tremendously influenced his life during adulthood because of the many mistakes he took credit for, turning them into a learning experience. Zamperini was a troublemaker as a child, and it benefited him during his time in the war and at the Olympics because he was good at it and needed it. Following this knowledge further, he would steal food with his older brother, Pete, who never got caught. Zamperini would always...
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...Biographies can affect society and show the harsh reality of life. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is the telling of the biography of Louie Zamperini, a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption. The biography covers moments in Louie’s childhood till the last day where he is standing and fighting for his country. Louie was considered in his town a troublemaker and his childhood stories usually ended with “and then I ran like mad” because the people he robbed often chased him . Not one person had hope but his brother Pete, who visions himself whenever Louie ran. Pete saw potential in his brother and encouraged Louie to join the track team at their high school where he began breaking state records in track. His talent allowed him...
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...resilience, and redemption.” Louis Zamperini had many successes in life, but he also had failures. The Zamperini family had helped him achieve his potential as a runner, and had changed his life for the better. As a young boy he was a troublemaker, and quite reckless, but he had his family to help him change into a man with a beautifully tragic, touching story. Louis was the exact opposite of his brother Pete. Pete was impeccably groomed, polite, handsome, and blessed with sound judgment. Louis as a young boy was reckless and could never stay still. Louie was always causing a ruckus. “The principal punished him by making him ineligible for athletic and social activities....
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...II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a non-fiction tale of Louis Zamperini, a man who began life as a rambunctious child and teenager and grew to face great odds during World War II, yet came out alive and with a new outlook on life. Hillenbrand unravels Louie’s life as she illustrates his journey following his World War II bomber crashing into the ocean on a routine flight, and the rescue of his deathly frail body 47 days later is better referred to as his capture. He was now at the hands of enemy Japanese soldiers, and would face years of agonizing mental and physical torture in their imprisonment camps. Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following his return home, as many World War II soldiers did, Louie sunk to very low place in life. In that time he realizes these themes in himself and finally finds his peace. As a first generation American who was born in New York and raised in California, Louis Zamperini’s acts of rebellion were not only out of desperate desire for attention but for sustaining the lives of his family and himself. Louie’s family struggled with money as he was growing up, so he had taken it upon himself to master the act of stealing food and personal belongings. When he was caught Louie either battled those who confronted him, or he ran from them; this is where Louie developed his abilities as a runner. “In a childhood of artful dodging, Louie made more than just mischief. He shaped who he would be in manhood. Confident that...
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