How To Write An Essay On Detto Zamperini's Life

Throughout history there have been many biographies on important people’s lives but this has to be the best one. It is called Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, who had interviewed the one and only Louie Zamperini and wrote this book about him and his experiences throughout the ages. In this book she expresses the details and emotions of how Louie’s life had been through childhood and after the war. For now this will be about how running had influenced Louie’s life. When Louie was a young boy, his family did not have much. They lived off of every pay check that would come in. Louie, as stubborn and free as he thought he was, would always be in someone else’s kitchen pantry, looking for food to bring back home. When he would finish, he would run for his life to get as far away as possible, most of the time getting caught in the process. His brother Pete, who does the exact same things, never got caught, so everyone assumed that he was the better sibling of the family. Even Louie looked up to him from time to time. As the boys became teenagers and started going to high school, Louie had gotten into so much trouble that the principle wanted to take Louie’s privileges …show more content…
Then it came to him “Now he latched onto a wildly audacious goal: the 1936 Olympics, in Berlin.” Louie made to those finals, all the way up there, he was competing against people he would always be talking about, and one for instance was their mile times. Pete had concreted this thought that Louie could get a four minute mile, eventually so did Louie. Until the time came that Louie had signed up to join the army, and that was the time when he couldn’t really focus on the next Olympics. But he did not completely give up on staying in shape for it. Once he asked some men to time him in the truck while driving next to him running. His time was the fastest he had ever gone