Unbroken Sparknotes

Chapters 6–11 relate the beginnings of Louie’s WWII career in the American military. In September 1941, Louie was drafted and eventually assigned to the Army Air Corps. He trained as a bombardier, flying in the clunky but powerful B-24 Liberator planes. Stationed in Oahu, Hawaii, Louie and his crewmates joined in the fight against Japan that was taking place all across the Pacific Ocean (referred to as the “Pacific Theatre”).

Well-known nonfiction author Laura Hillenbrand, in her best-selling biography, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, describes the chilling reality faced by those living in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. As the title suggests, this is not the typical World War II tale of hardship that ends in liberation; rather, it follows the main character, Louis “Louie” Zamperini, through his childhood, Olympic performances, and military career leading up to his captivity, as well as his later marriage and many years of healing. Hillenbrand's purpose is to impress upon her readers the scale of this tragedy as well as remind them of the horror that so many nameless soldiers endured. She adopts an emotional yet straightforward tone in order to get readers to sympathize with the characters and truly understand what they went through. To do so, she manages to make the unique story of one man represent the thousands of others going through the same tragedy.

Everyone has gone through something that alters their outlook on life. Whether it is a major event or a small occurrence, they never are the same person they were before the incident. In "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperinie goes through unimaginable circumstances that a common person would never be able to endure. He ran in the Olympics, was enlisted in the army in WWII, was stranded in the middle of the ocean for more than forty days, and was a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp. Most people would never begin to imagine staying strong under these circumstances. But Louie Zamperinie remained unbroken, and transformed as a man when he turned to God.

This POW camp was not registered with the Red Cross, so, they did not receive care packages. Finally, they barely had any food, and combined with intense exercise, it was nearly impossible to survive.

The author Helen Keller once said, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” In the nonfiction book Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini’s bravery brought Keller’s words to reality when Louie fought against a shark in the Pacific Ocean during a Japanese attack to their raft of three men. Obviously, Louie showed impeccable will of courage to survive against the Japanese attackers and sharks at the same time, making the events in Unbroken genuine and dangerous piece of Louie Zamperini’s life.

Lyddie is a girl living in the mid 1800’s who has a lot of hard choices to make between health, family, and money. In the book, “Lyddie,” by Katherine Paterson, Lyddie lives with her daily, but then her mom and dad left, and it was just her and Charlie in the winter. By spring, they decide they need to go to work because they can’t keep up with the farm. So, then Charlie goes off to work in the Mills and gets an education, while Lyddie starts her work journey at Cutler's Tavern. A question a lot of people have wondered after reading this was, “Should have Lyddie signed the petition?”

Throughout history man successfully found a way to survive in the most harsh conditions even, when all odds were against them. In Ellie Wiesel's memoir Night, Ellie and his father find a way to survive in the most difficult conditions. In the concentration camps Ellie and his father spends years in the face of death, basic survival prevailed over the moral teachings of society.

The book Endangered is about the journey of survival and the connection between a young American girl (Sophie) and a bonobo monkey (Otto) in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sophie’s mother lives in the Congo and runs a bonobo sanctuary. While on her way to the sanctuary to visit her mother for the summer, Sophie sees a man on the side of the road with a bonobo. She notices how malnourished and how bad the bonobo looks and against the rules of her mother, Sophie purchases the bonobo. When she reaches the sanctuary her mother is upset because even though she had good intentions of saving the bonobos life, bargaining with the man Sophie inadvertently promoted the illegal sale of the endangered bonobos. While at the sanctuary Sophie struggles to improve Otto’s health and a

In the novel ,The Natural by Bernard Malamud,Roy Hobbs a soon to be baseball player with his whole life ahead of him thinks his baseball career will skyrocket and will become a well known baseball player,but he let is love life interfere with his career. Roy Hobbs was shot at nineteen years old and lost his best friend all because of the same girl.His career skyrocketed but it was at the time where his age did not do him so good.The protagonist Roy Hobbs is a progressive character because although he was shot at nineteen and forced to take a fifteen year leave out of the big league baseball,he overcame his injuries and was determined to be the best.

It doesn't really matter your position on the war, and it is a war, in Afghanistan while watching Sebastian Junger (Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington's exceptional documentary Restrepo. Restrepo is not a political film nor does it opt to take a stand, instead it is simply a remarkably intense and human observation of the men who fight in war and the those on both sides who are impacted by it.

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.

Lanval has every reason to want to kill himself, but why doesn't he? His love has left him neglected by society and he's wanted as a prisoner. Surely his death would be imminent, the next step. Because at this point in the narrative, we, as readers, are starting to not only get a sense of the hopelessness of Lanval’s situation, but also the seemingly hopelessness of his life. We know that at the beginning of the poem, he was unhappy.

In the novel Out of my Mind by Sharon M. Draper, an eleven-year-old girl identified as Melody Brooks has a photographic memory, which is a side effect of cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a disease where you can't move, write, and most importantly, talk.. Eventually throughout the book Melody overcomes her fears and matures enough to accept that she is her own person. Melody is a bright girl, who has cerebral palsy, but when she gets a device that allows her to articulate, she changes the way other people perceive her. Throughout the most important weeks for Melody, she excels and matures for the most important event yet. She proves herself smart enough when she gets onto the Whiz kids team, but will she be able to help the team win the finals?

First of all, the theme of survival was demonstrated throughout the book. Starting off with Zamperini surviving from the eugenics by transforming himself into an Olympian athlete in Part I, to the plane crash in Part II, next the 47 days of drifting in the Pacific Ocean in Part III, then the Japanese POW camps in Part IV, and finally overcoming his mental illness in Part V were all examples of the theme survival being demonstrated. In addition, the theme of resilience was part of the protagonist Zamperini’s personality. At the Japanese POW camp, Naoetsu, the Bird, a sadistic Japanese POW guard, tortured him and stripped away his dignity. The Bird has let Zamperini perform tasks such as holding up a six foot beam after discovering Zamperini was desperate for medical care. Being told to hold the beam or else being whacked by the guard’s gun, Zamperini held it for 37 minutes. Considering his physical condition during that time period, it was incredible how Zamperini’s mental state helped him through the difficulties of the Japanese POW camp. Lastly, Hillenbrand integrated the theme of redemption mostly in Part V. The following quote from that section explains it all. “It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over” (p.386). After the war, Zamperini had nightmares of the Bird, sank into

James Kouzes and Barry Posner wrote a leadership book entitled “Credibility: How leaders gain and lose it, why people demand it” (“Credibility”). It was written specifically for managers because, while academia had a wealth of research regarding credibility, little had been directed toward managers (Kouzes & Posner, 2003, p. 276). The edition selected for review was published in 2003. The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership theories it contains, both explicit and implicit.