Laura Hillenbrand’s, Unbroken is “A World War II story of survival, 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. …show more content…
A flask had become his constant companion and reaching for his flask became as easy as slapping a swatter on a fly. He began drinking and smoking and first it was beer and soon he dipped into hard liquor. He had become a drunk unaware of what he was doing. He had dreams of the Bird and all of the horrendous things that had had happened to him as a prisoner of war. ”One day Cynthia came home to find Louie gripping a squalling Cissy in his hands, shaking her. With a shriek, she pulled the baby away. Appalled at himself, Louie went on bender after bender. Cynthia had had enough. She called her father, and he sent her the money to go back to Miami Beach. She decided to file for divorce.” Soon after Cynthia goes to see Billy Graham an evangelist who was preaching downtown. Louie had refused to go constantly until Cynthia had told Louie the sermons discussed science at a length. This had been enough incentive to tip the balance and Louie gave in. After Louie had turned his life around as a Christian evangelist speaker, telling his story all around America. Cynthia had stayed with Louie through the highs and lows. They were barely getting by, but they were so blissful together and the connection with each other had renewed and