Unbroken Quotes

In chapter eight of Unbroken, the narrator follows the description of Super Man’s bombing of Wake by describing the dangers of war, specifically in the American Air Corps. After describing multiple instances of Louie’s friends who have died in combat and the very real risks that are associated with flying in combat, the narrator follows with this quote, emphasizing how unlikely rescue at sea was. Although “the military was dedicated to finding crash and ditching survivors” (90), “the improbability of rescue, coupled with the soaring rate of accidental crashes, created a terrible equation” (91). This quote, and much of this chapter, is a foreshadowing of the events that occur with Phil, Louie, and the rest of the crew of the Green Hornet. By

Louie Zamperini was a troubled boy who grew up to become a forgiving and persistent man. When Louie was a child, he would run from his problems, but soon his brother, Pete, noticed his potential. Louie ran for the track team and was accepted into the Olympics. The Olympics were canceled and he decided to join the air force. When on the plane, it went down and he was now stranded at sea with two other men. They were rescued many days later, and imprisoned by the Japanese soldiers. They went from camp to camp, abused almost all the time. This book, Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, contains the very true information about Louie Zamperini and his life journey. Throughout it you can see that Louie

Laura Hillenbrand chose to present Unbroken as the life story of an Olympic runner who happened to be captured as a prisoner of war, rather than a man whose only story is that of the war. However, much of the focus is his experiences in several different Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, and how it affected the rest of his life. Hillenbrand walks the reader’s through Louie’s life to help them understand and empathize with what he went through. The time spent on his childhood and career is meant to get the

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a story about Louie Zamperini and his journey throughout World War II. Zamperini went through being stuck on a raft for forty-seven days and two years in Japanese POW camps, where he survived beatings, starvation, and dehydration. One of the themes of this book is hope. While Louie was on the raft, in order to stay alive he had to have hope. If he did not, he could have easily given up and died.

Louie Zamperini floated on the ocean for 47 days, and was held prisoner in Japanese POW camps for 2 years. When Louie was a child he was very rebellious. The more Louie grew the more trouble he got in. One day when Louie was running from a teacher his brother, Pete, noticed how fast Louie was. Pete helped Louie become a runner, where Louie would go to the Olympics. Louie could run 2 miles in just over 4 minutes but one day Louie was drafted and had to go to Hawaii where Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, starting WWII. On a fateful day, Louie’s plane crashed leaving him stranded in the ocean with two other men, Mac and Phil, but sadly, one had died, Mac. Louie and Phil were rescued 47 days later, but by the wrong country. Japan took them

In the novel Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand, the character Louie displays many important character traits. The most important trait displayed in this character is positivity. The author shows the reader these traits in several ways. First, the author shows us by what the character says. Louis said ‘ “ If I have any strength left from the heat, I'll beat Bright and give Lash the scare of his life.’ (25). Second, the author shows us by what the character does. Louie reassured Mac that the squadron would come for them, that they were likely to be found that night, at the latest the next day. Another way the author shows the reader is by revealing what another character says about my character. For instance, Phil said ‘ “ If there was one

“Weakness of attitude is weakness of character”.(Albert Einstein) In Laura Hillenbrand’s Book Unbroken Louie Zampermini shows his resourcefulness when he and other POWs refuse to work outside the camp and he convinces the bird to let them work in the camp shows that Louie was a determined and this personifies Einstein's words as well as showing his resourcefulness. The proof that Louie refused to give up to stop fighting shows exactly how much character attitude and resourcefulness Louie had. This unforgettable tale of how Louie would not quite and would fight his demons directly or indirectly in clever ways to his own breaking point through the toughest of times that we cannot even imagine.

Louie grew up in a small town, he was a rebel child who stole things and started fights. All he wanted to do was run away because he always had his parents or his brother lecturing and yelling at him. However, Louie had a very special gift in which he never put to work. Thankfully for his brother, he got him back on track. Louie’s gift was running, he was so fast and could never stop. Louie continues to compete and break world records soon leading him to go to the olympics and he tries to break the world record of the timed mile. His career was stopped and taken over when the second world war two broke out, and he enters the army. He becomes a bombardier. On his first mission, a battle occurs between him and his captain, however they managed to land the plane safely. Then they are placed onto a new plane that eventually gets shot down, Louie was one out of three who survived. These three men had to figure out how to survive even though they were flustered about the whole situation. One ended up dying but Louie stayed strong and was fighting for his own food to survive. Everything was going smoothly, they were surviving for a pretty long time but it quickly shifted when the japanese find them. The Japanese shuttle Louie and his

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

Even when the weight of the world is coming down and doubt is setting in, there still are powers to help carry on. Louie Zamperini, a famous Olympic athlete, was dragged down to a low level when he was captured by Japanese forces and suffered under horrendous conditions in the many POW camps he stayed at. Throughout all of life’s trials, he survived, due to his strong resilience and agency. He wanted to live, and even though he may have wanted to give up, he had plenty of things to live for. In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses both internal and external conflict to show the theme that people can stand up against enemies even when the odds seem stacked up against them.

After conquering horrific tragedies during World War Two, Louie Zamperini commented, “I didn’t know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.” (Hillenbrand, FIGURE OUT IF AND WHERE IT IS IN THE BOOK.) In Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken, he showed absolute determination to survive insurmountable obstacles. Throughout his life and everything he endured, he was determined he was going to make it through. In fact, Louie decided he would be whatever he put his mind to. If he was going to run, then by golly he was going to run, and if he wanted to make it out of a POW camp, then

The preface of Unbroken shows a scene that has our main character Louie Zamperini, in a military raft, in the middle of the ocean with two of his fellow soldiers. They end up seeing a plane and think it is there to rescue them. This makes them decide to pour orange dye into the water and shoot off two flares, thinking that is an American plane. However, the plane leaves for a short time, only to come back to them firing at them with their machine guns, as it is a Japanese Bomber plane. This causes them to duck under the raft to make them hide.

O 'Brien illustrates to us the necessity for each man to be connected to their old life, telling a story of Mark Fossie flying in his girlfriend to ease his loneliness (104-05). Each soldier found himself facing insurmountable barriers throughout the war, and these small effects and coping mechanisms were often the only necessity that would give them reason to return home again. They needed personal methods of coping with the war, and this primeval survival was the only way to remain a man.

Adversity reveals strength in people, like in Louis Zamperini and Malala Yousafzai. Louis Zamperini was an Olympic athlete that was later stranded in a raft for 47 days, then captured in a japanese POW camp in World War II. During all of his hardships

The life one treasures and takes for granted today can be so easily erased in the blink of an eye and gone tomorrow. Therefore, not only is it important to cherish how one lives for today and now, but it’s also important to how one can overcome the misfortunes and hardships they may suffer; tragedy can make a person or break a person. Mary Rowlandson’s experience during her eleven weeks of captivity as documented in “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” is a perfect answer to the above argument. The eleven weeks she experienced as a prisoner of her Indian captors proves to be a pivotal occasion in her life, which changes her feelings, lifestyle, and attitude as well towards her abductors. By the end of her horrifying experience, she rises more profoundly grounded in every way: mentally, physically, and spiritually with a new outlook on life, closer to God, and a newfound opinion of the Indians.