Smack! Louie, a POW in Japan, stands back up after his daily beatings during WWII. Louie had some rough patches when he was younger, that was until he found track. His brother, Pete, coached him all the way to the Olympics. He was eventually drafted in the army once WWII had started, since the U.S. was in dire need of more soldiers. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Louie’s defining traits are rebellious and determined.
Louie was determined to stay alive. “Louie, Phil, and Mac clawed for the raft walls and threw themselves overboard. They swam under the rafts and huddled there, wincing, watching bullets cut bright slits in the water around them.”(p.118) Louie, starving and weak, still had it in him to get into the ocean to evade the bullets taking a chance with the sharks. On page 186 it says, “The Bird beat him …show more content…
Louie took big risks like, “as they turned, Louie ran to the flag and began jumping, trying to get it.” (p.36) He was risking getting caught and beaten for the Nazi flag, but he did it anyways. Later in the book one of the prison guards asked Louie, “...who’d win the war.” Louie said, “America.”(p.145) Even though he knew he would be dehumanized further he rebelled and was ardent to the U.S. In the prison camps they were starved so they would, “...sneak to the galleys and stuff food into their clothes.”(p.204) He was rebelling by stealing the guards food otherwise they would have died of starvation.
In the book Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand Louie’s defining traits were rebellious and determined. Louie lasted through the war, and he never gave up on the raft. At the end of the book after he was determined to get through the war and kill the Bird, but after the Billy Graham speech he wanted to forgive the prison guards including the Bird. Throughout the story Louie stayed determined through the hard times and was rebellious even in the most dangerous