Strength, honor, soldier, Olympian, and Christian are words that describe Louie Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand writes about the life of Louie and the traumatic events that he endured through World War II. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, “Unbroken- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” readers will explore how Louie Zamperini’s character and inner strength helped him become an Olympic athlete, survive imprisonment as a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) and turn his life around upon returning from war. The book begins with Louie as a young boy as a rebellious youth who liked to cause a lot of mischief around the neighborhood of Torrance, California.…
Louie Zamperini went from a rebellious child that would steal and break rules but turned into a man who used his rebelliousness to survive. People in hardships can go through trauma. Louie went through trauma recovering from the war. Louie was in the Air Force but got captured, he encountered officers who would beat and torture him almost to death. Louies worst officer was the Bird, he beat and starved Louie.…
Paragraph 1, Introduction Ellie's Story is about a search and rescue dog named Ellie. Ellie's Story is by W. Bruce Cameron, who also wrote the novel A Dog's Purpose, Bailey's story, Molly's story, Max's Story, and many other books all based off of A Dog's Purpose. A Dog's Purpose even had a movie made about it. EllIe's story didn't have many main characters. Some of the characters consist of Jakob, Ellie's first partner, Maya, Ellie's second partner, Ellie herself, Albert, Maya’s husband, Wally, and Belinda.…
Evicted, a New York Times Bestseller book written by Matthew Desmond, captured many faces of a culturally diverse population. Many parallel stories were narrated, yet each was unique and contained tremendous consequences as well as the depth of its kind. The beauty in Desmond’s writing was signified by his audacious remark, with words and sentences that provoked one’s deepest feelings. These allowed the author to develop a stronger connection with the readers as they progressed and psychologically experienced the multistage of sensations: from being awfully rejected to being openly loved, or from being wrongfully evicted to being warmly welcomed into a house. Multiple characters with distinct and rich background stories created a colorful book…
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hildebrand is about the life of Louis Silvie Zamperini, a young man who would go from a troubled youth, to an Olympic runner and survive as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II. Zamperini, who was born in Olean, New York in 1917, would live to be 97 years old passing on July 2, 2014. The story covers Zamperini’s troubled youth growing up in a poor Italian family in Torrance. Zamperini’s brother, Pete, would play an important role, getting Louis, the younger of the two, to take his running from the law and convert it to running for the school track team. Louis would eventually take his talent to the World Olympics.…
Clarabeth Maire Grainer laid in her bed unable to sleep, she stared at the white ceiling above her as she thought to herself. She eventually closed her eyes and fell asleep, the next thing she knew her alarm was screaming at her with loud beeping. She woke up with a sigh knowing that school started in an hour. She got out of her warm bed and got dressed in an army green sweater, gray jeans, and pulled on some brown boots. She walked out of her room and into the bathroom.…
In the discombobulation of day to day life, all types of people are going to try to knock you down. This hardship was experienced personally by Brenda Roza as she realized that “there may not be that person next to you that's going to speak up for you”. There is no reason for strangers being malicious, to try to knock other people down when they’re not even known to you. Regardless, it is imperative that you are able to defend yourself- just as Brenda Roza did. Having been told throughout her entire life that she couldn’t do certain things, Brenda thought that that being a successful person might be beyond reach to her - impossible.…
The Tuesday of Thanksgiving break my sophomore year my best friends Cassandra Johnson a.k.a. Cass and Emilie Oesterle a.k.a. Half O and I all had one crazy night. It started out leaving SJA and heading to Emilie’s to get her some clothes then to Cass’s.…
I am so grateful that my life is filled with wonderful people. I think the person that has made the biggest difference in my life is my caseworker Shannon Dean-Wilson. I have known Mrs. Dean-Wilson for about four years. We met through Safe Journey & APP (Adolescent Adult Parenting), my assigned caseworker. Since the day I met her she has wanted nothing but the best for me.…
It was a gray day. The sun did not shine; it could not sever the layers of powdery black skies and the fog. The thick mist that was not really rain and not really fog covered the southeastern corner of New Jersey. It was depressing, just like most days in the area surrounding the Overbrook Asylum. On the outside, Overbrook was a welcoming place where patients were treated with care and respect; the inside was very different.…
I walked through blurring snow and glistening flakes that were swirling around me up the hill to the old barn door in order to find shelter in the blizzard. I pushed open the door just enough to get through and entered the barn. There were fresh hay bales all over and I sat down on one and looked around examining my surroundings. I did a quick scan and nothing caught my attention at first, however, I scanned again and I saw what appeared to be an old antique chest in the far left corner of the barn. I walked over to it and saw what appeared to be a old lock on it that was hanging open.…
Scarlett was lying to her bed trying to fall asleep, but she couldn't. All she could hear was the whistle of the wind, the crashing of the thunder, and the hard rain hitting her roof. As soon as she closed her eyes, she felt a cold breeze rush passed her. The rush of air spooked her and turned around to see red glowing eyes staring at her from the corner of her room. Scarlett froze in fear as the dark figure with glowing eyes walked throunds her, she tried to say sometime, but couldn't.…
I grew up knowing death too well. I was sort of like a modern day Lydia Deetz. Both my parents were morticians and they recall me talking to corpses and singing to the stillborns. I of course didn’t marry a demon but I did happen to wear a lot of black and fully understand death and both it’s beauty…
This is when she discovers the power of words. The people only imagine the scenes from the story instead of the possibilities that their houses are in…
Katniss is better with her partner in crime, her true love, and her hunting companion. His name is Gale. He has gotten very close with Katniss and even made her smile. The are better together because Gale is Katniss’s best friend, they care for each other very much, and she trusts him. In and out of the arena, Katniss has a hard time trusting someone, but Gale is an exception.…