In the 4th section of the book “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, it shows life of Louie and other POW inside Japanese war camps. The story start with Louie and Phil imprisoned on the island called “Kawjalein” or also nicknamed, “execution island”. Once the Japanese got the information they needed from them, they were about to execute them. However, the order was stopped on the last minute, and instead those two were transferred to Ofuna, a POW camp. Both Phil and Louie thought it would be much better there, but they were wrong. They found out that all the regulations set for POW camps were being broken, and that all the POWs were being fed nothing, given no medicine, forced to work as a slave, and many more. There were some guards that were
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Then Louie met the man who dedicated his life to make his life miserable because he was a famous Olympic runner. This man was the most sadistic twisted person that Louie had ever seen (they called him the bird), and he just got himself a big target on his back. He survived through everything that the bird threw at him, he transferred from the strict camp, Ofuna, to the Torturous Omori and finally to the bitter cold Naoetsu. Throughout this chapter he noticed that the Americans were winning the war, which wasn’t allows good. The Japanese used a “Kill-All” order when they thought that the allied forces would overrun the base. This was so no one could talk about that things they did on camp, also so that no information would be leaked. Every day they feared the guards, but when they wished for savior, they instead felt despair from the thought of the “Kill-All” command. However, they were finally able to be rescued safely. All the men drank, smoke and ate until they could not …show more content…
The “Quack” beat one man “for forty-five mutes, perhaps an hour, the beating went on, long past when Harris feel unconscious” (229). Getting beat for almost an hour by an enraged adult man is truly testing the limits of the human body, especially of one that of a Japanese POW. Humans are fragile creatures can could die just from a hit to the head. Yet, this POW endured an outrageous beating for an hour. Having to withstand strong beatings with a body that has an extreme lack of food, bruises all over, and forced to do slave work, to be able to withstand that and still hope for rescue. To do that, you must have a body and mind made of steel. However, their hope was quickly attacked, “the nearer the allies came to Japan, the larger loomed the threat of the kill-all order” (222). From their views, they have to everyday face hellish torture, then somehow manage to survive every day, then hope that the “kill-all” order wouldn’t be used on them. Not only was his conscious mind of him attack, but also his subconscious. “At night, the Bird stalked his dreams, screeching, seething, his belt buck flying at Louie’s skull” (265). I consider it to be one of the few times where I can rest my mind, body and spirit. Louie doesn’t even have the luxury to have decent dreams, but instead he has to be tortured by “The Bird” almost
Then Louie met the man who dedicated his life to make his life miserable because he was a famous Olympic runner. This man was the most sadistic twisted person that Louie had ever seen (they called him the bird), and he just got himself a big target on his back. He survived through everything that the bird threw at him, he transferred from the strict camp, Ofuna, to the Torturous Omori and finally to the bitter cold Naoetsu. Throughout this chapter he noticed that the Americans were winning the war, which wasn’t allows good. The Japanese used a “Kill-All” order when they thought that the allied forces would overrun the base. This was so no one could talk about that things they did on camp, also so that no information would be leaked. Every day they feared the guards, but when they wished for savior, they instead felt despair from the thought of the “Kill-All” command. However, they were finally able to be rescued safely. All the men drank, smoke and ate until they could not …show more content…
The “Quack” beat one man “for forty-five mutes, perhaps an hour, the beating went on, long past when Harris feel unconscious” (229). Getting beat for almost an hour by an enraged adult man is truly testing the limits of the human body, especially of one that of a Japanese POW. Humans are fragile creatures can could die just from a hit to the head. Yet, this POW endured an outrageous beating for an hour. Having to withstand strong beatings with a body that has an extreme lack of food, bruises all over, and forced to do slave work, to be able to withstand that and still hope for rescue. To do that, you must have a body and mind made of steel. However, their hope was quickly attacked, “the nearer the allies came to Japan, the larger loomed the threat of the kill-all order” (222). From their views, they have to everyday face hellish torture, then somehow manage to survive every day, then hope that the “kill-all” order wouldn’t be used on them. Not only was his conscious mind of him attack, but also his subconscious. “At night, the Bird stalked his dreams, screeching, seething, his belt buck flying at Louie’s skull” (265). I consider it to be one of the few times where I can rest my mind, body and spirit. Louie doesn’t even have the luxury to have decent dreams, but instead he has to be tortured by “The Bird” almost