Perseverance In Unbroken

In the third section of Laura Hillenbrand’s book, “Unbroken”, was when Mac, Louie and Phil got stranded at sea. At first Louie made himself the leader, due to the pilot, Phil, being injured therefore making him the leader. He established that they would all eat two chocolate bars every day, and would drink a certain amount of water each day. However, Mac out of panic, ate all the chocolate bars. The only food source they got was from birds landing and use them to fish. Whenever, they would spot a plane, they would shot a flare up and pour dye into the ocean. However, they were never rescued. They had many times that the almost died, either to enemy planes, starvation, sharks, drowning, or even all of the above! Phil and Louie kept themselves …show more content…
The first example of this, is when they ate imaginary yummy meals described by Louie when they were on the life-raft. For Louie and Phil, “these talks, they created something to live for” (146). This shows us how they mentally survive by even using such a simple thing as food to motivate them to survive. People in society these days will never use such as simple thing as food to motivate them to survive. People who are suicidality depressed would never use such a simple thought of looking forward to eating something good to motivate them to live on. Yet, those two men are in a much extremer situation than normal depressed people by using the simple thought of food! That is extreme mental survival! Another place where they showed overwhelming mental survival was when they were in the raft. Then, Louie and Phil thought, “Both had the ability to warn fear away from their thoughts, focusing instead on how to survive and reassuring themselves that things would work out” (147). They both know that thinking of the worst won’t help their situation, but they do know that thinking positively will. Fear are human’s strongest trait, yet they are able to brush it aside. One showing both physical and mental survival was when Louie had caught a bird, and,” All three men forced the meat down” (149). Whenever, people from society catches an animal, they almost never will eat the animal raw. As a child, …show more content…
My first reaction was to the quote of when Phil notices that, “Cecy’s lucky bracelet wasn’t on his wrist, and the silver he’d been keeping for his reunion with her wasn’t in this pocket” (127). This makes me feel like that good luck charms and other mecilanious things does work. It also felt of it as a sign of lots of bad luck. Another support of the bad luck theory was when Louie killed an albatross, which is a sign of bad luck, then Louie said, “After a plane crash, Louie replied, what more bad luck could they have?”(144). It was very ironic of him to say that because he meets plenty more bad luck. Another thing I noticed in this chapter was how my observation in reading log 2 came true. In log 2 I said that I felt that his childhood could help him survive. “The same attributes that had made him the boy terror of Torrance were keeping alive in the greatest struggle of his life” (148). Not only was my prediction right for this one, but also for that water would be a useful defense against bullets. The Japanese rained bullets on Louie (who was submerged under water) causing him to not take fatal damage. Something I found interesting was wat Louie felt when he was on the raft. “Louie found that the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge…his mind was freed of encumbrance that civilization had impose on it…his memory became infinitely more nimble”(167). I found this very intesting. Society