Loneliness is something in which Louie Zamperini dealt with his whole life. Starting from when he was a troubled child, when he was a track star, was stranded in the vast ocean, to when he was in the dreadful prison camps, Louie had been challenged with enduring solitude and loneliness. This somewhat helped in a positive and negative way. It helped him by being familiar with this feeling, unlike Mac and Phil on the raft. It impacted Louie positively by making him result in clarifying of himself, his values, and his philosophy. The protagonist suffers not only with loneliness, but through separation from his family, torture by a Japanese prison guard known as "the Bird," and drifting in the Pacific for forty seven days. Surprisingly he continues to become stronger and becomes unbreakable. Louie, a strong hero in Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, discovers in the state of loneliness, holding onto one’s faith, relationship with loved ones, and friends can make a difference between life and death.
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Even though they had each other they all still felt alone. This is because the prisoners were cut off from all outside world, no word of the war or anything at all. Every once in a while they could get their hands on a newspaper about the war, but if they got caught they had to deal with another cold hard beating from “the Bird”. Together they kept each other alive by stealing food, water, cigarettes, and more and share with each other “the POWs would pinch anything they could…… risking of a beating or worse” (289). They were even being taunted by the Japanese soldiers, especially “The Bird was the worst offender…openly keeping Red Cross food in his room” (273). Without his friends in the barracks Louie probably would not have survived and had starved to death. Hunger may not have killed him, but not knowing what’s going on outside of camp sure did feel like it was killing