How Did Louis Zamperin Survive

Louie was able to survive in the raft because of his brother Pete, his Olympic experience and he was smart and papered, to a degree. Pete influenced his survival because before Louie joined the war Pete helped train him for the Olympics, when Pete pushed and encouraged him to never stop and to always keep his head up, which help Louie not give up on the raft and keep fighting for his life. The text states on pages 15, “from that day on Pete was all over Louie for him to train,” this proves that Pete pushed Louie, which thought Louie to never stop and to always keep going. The Olympic experience helped Louie survive because it thought him to take the pain and keep going. The text states on page 44, “…as he neared the final turn he saw a tiny

He needed strength to keep going throughout the story. When Louie was in the camps he needed strength through his beatings, and after he was rescued, images of the camps haunting him in his mind. One way Louie showed strength was on page 145 it read, “Louie was asked who’d win the war. ‘America.’... A fist connected with Louie’s nose, and he felt a crunch… He’d pushed the bones back in place with his fingers on the journey.” Louie was very strong, when he said that America would win he got punched in the nose, and his bones shattered. Although along the way he pushed the bones right back in place. Another way Louie showed strength was it said, “Louie walked up a long road, toward a complex of buildings. His whole body tingled. On the entrance archway were the words SUGAMO PRISON, and beyond it awaited Louie’s POW camp guards. Louie had returned to Japan” (271). Louie went to see the POW guards that had dehumanized him while he was in the camps, you would think that Louie would’ve hurt them but instead he was raptured and forgave them for what they had done.When Louie wanted to go meet the Bird, the book says, “‘Six hundred prisoner,’ he said. ‘Zamperini number one’... He called beatings ‘unavoidable.’ Told that Louie wished to come offer forgiveness” (280). Louie wanted to meet with the Bird, the most abusive guard in the camp, showing his strength that he kept throughout his time. Louie had strength during the camps and even more when

Olimpica athlete, Survived 2 plane crashes, cast away for 47 days, P.O.W for two years, three books, Louis Zamperini went through a lot before he died at the old age of 97. His actions and achievements were so amazing there were three books and a movie made about him. And this is going to show just how accurate that move was compared to the true events.

(E) On page one of Unbroken says, “The men had been adrift for twenty-seven days.” (A) Louis would have to persevere to stay alive with little food and water stranded in the ocean for twenty-seven days. It also made it harder since there were people with him and they still had to eat and drink. He had to push through to survive to long twenty-seven days. (E) Additionally, on page five of Trapped it says, “With five days of gritty buildup pasted to my contact lenses, my eyes hurt at every blink, and wavering fringes of cloud frame my dingy vision.”

Louie allotted one water tin per man,” he used his resources to make the food last so they would survive. (105) When Phil was bleeding out of his head louie had a brilliant idea, “He pulled of his top shirt and T-shirt and pulled Phil’s shirts off as well.” he used the resource of the clothes on their body to keep Phil alive. These are only some ways that Louie had demonstrated his

Louis Zamperini displayed many Examples of resilience during his time at sea, and during his time in the Japanese POW camps. While at sea Zamperini and his colleagues needed to invent ways to stay sane, and alive which shows incredible creativity. At sea Zamperini displayed humor in his creative ways of coming up with meals for the men who were stranded with him. Despite being locked up and unable to control his surroundings Zamperini still managed to stay independent from The Bird and remain positive. Through his initiative Zamperini managed to send a note home to his parents through a forced japanese propaganda broadcast. Zamperini displayed morality later in his life when he forgave the japanese guards for what they had done to him. Zamperini

After reading the biography of Louie Zamperini’s life by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie’s leadership led him through many obstacles. Being the leader Louie is he conquered insurmountable odds without breaking, proving to audiences that an ordinary man can transform into the hero of his own life

As indicated by Laura Hillenbrand in Unbroken, ¨A month earlier, twenty-six-year-old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport. Now his Olympian’s body had wasted to less than one hundred pounds and his famous legs could no longer lift him. Almost everyone outside of his family had given him up for dead¨ Louis’s life had gone to pieces all in two or three months. He was tormented, stranded, and broken. He was broken until he was saved and it make him come to a realization of his life. No individual ought to be abandoned or regarded as the way he seemed to

Bravery, louie was the bravest person. He did the right thing no matter how hard. It would have been so easy to jump in the water and drown while on the raft. Instead he stayed strong. He tried to keep mac alive as long as he could. Louie had his

There are crimes that happen everyday but what makes the victims survive from that is by being strong resilient, determined and having even a glimpse of hope. Lauren Hillenbrand describes Louie Zamperini as a resilient, determined and strong person. Louie as a kid was a troublemaker and got involved with the law for stealing things others would say he was untamable. Louie’s brother wanted to help pull him out of that dark hole so he introduced running to Louie. He then began to run inside of school and out, so when it came time for college Louie joined the army to pay for college. Louie would run and prep for the olympics but still in the army... Louie was a prisoner of War. In the novel, Unbroken, Lauren Hillenbrand uses Louie's life experiences to show his two most important traits: determination and resiliency.

The art of survival is something that is not easily learned. For some, however, it is something that comes from a natural desire to be defiant and rebellious. In the novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, protagonist Louie Zamperini fights for survival through a number of trials that are presented to him. His life takes him from being a troubled child, to an Olympic runner, to a bomber lost at sea, to POW in some of the worst camps Japan could conjure. Louie not only survives these trials, he stands up and goes directly against the normality and ease of submission and faces his adversity head on. Throughout the novel, Louie shows that his ability to survive stems from his natural urge to rebel and defy anything that he deems too controlling in his life.

Everyone encounters obstacles in life that they feel like they can't overcome. People that have 'resilience' can take these challenges head on, stay calm in any situation, and use their problem-solving skills to take advantage of the situation and get themselves out of it. In a section of "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, a biography of war hero Louie Zamperini, Zamperini is adrift at sea after his bomber crashed in the ocean. He is left with just the remains of the plane and two others, Phil and Mac. Louie Zamperini's key characteristics of resilience and the differences between all three men allow them to overcome adversity, and Louie and Phil make it out alive.

Louie shows perseverance in the Olympic race. Hillenbrand writes, “In terrible pain, he took a staggering step off the track …he had no resistance to offer. Still he ran on” (Hillenbrand 26). This shows his perseverance because although Louie is in pain, he did not give up. Instead he kept running, enduring through his pain. Hillenbrand mentions, “But he had nothing to lose. He trained so hard that he rubbed the skin right off one of his toes, leaving his sock bloody” (Hillenbrand 23). Louie trained so hard that his skin had rubbed off. This shows Louie’s perseverance because even though he felt pain, he did not stop training because he was determined to win the Olympic race.

Louie and Phil used all of their strength to overcome the obstacles they went through, both physically and mentally. Their physical strength was tested throughout their entire journey. Being stranded on the ocean took the initial toll on Louie and Phil’s bodies by diminishing them down to 67-87 and 80 pounds, respectively. Both of them had weighed around 150 pounds when they had crashed. Louie’s mental strength was tested as well. He started to have hallucinations of people singing in the clouds, most likely due to dehydration. The two retained their strength though, by focusing on their survival and trying to remain sane. Their optimism also had a great influence on how strong they were. In Ruth Robertson’s (2016) article “The Strength of Optimism” she states, “There are many benefits to having a more optimistic mindset. Research tells us that it can lengthen your life, determine how you overcome life’s obstacles, build resilience and manage the risks of developing depressive disorders and other mental health issues” (para. 3). Robertson is saying that optimism can help you through the hard times that life throws at us. A positive mindset can transform a life or death situation. Louie even retained a lot of physical strength while he was in the prisoner of war camps. Near the end of his imprisonment he would have to carry literal tons back and forth for hours. The Bird, one of the Japanese guards and Louie’s worst

Have you ever experienced being alone? Everyone has, or likely will, at some point in their life. But how about for 94 days, carrying a backpack that weighs nearly as much as you do containing all you have to survive off, by foot? Or what about 227 days, floating through the ocean on a tipsy life boat, with limited supplies, little to no sense of direction, and a huge Bengal tiger to watch out for? Probably not. Both of these scenarios involve extreme human conditions. On the theme of a person’s conditions both challenging and shaping who they are, there are two novels that stand out in the exploration of this topic, and they are Life of Pi and Wild By Cheryl Strayed.