Free Dress By Laura Hillenbrand

Laura Hillenbrand wrote the book UNBROKEN Louie who is the main character was a mischievous boy who eventually grew up into a more fuller person by going through WWII. Louie became an Olympian who was drafted to WWII became part of a pilot crew, crashed into the Pacific Ocean kidnapped by the Japanese he was eventually free got married struggled and became happy at last. Ironically war gives Louie the gift of maturity.
According to Carolyn Kellogg “Zamperini was a tough kid, smoking, stealing, ditching school and headed for trouble” as a young boy who came from Italy it was hard he didn’t have any friends but his brother Pete; Louie was also this way because he got little to no attention from his parents he “craved attention”(Hillenbrand pg.13). …show more content…
The U.S made a list of all criminals who had starved and killed their men and at the top of the list was The Bird for 3 years no one found him he went “missing” in reality he just went into hiding because he knew if he were to be captured he would be sentenced to life in prison or executed. For a long period of time Louie suffered from PTSD and seeked revenge on The Bird for what he had done to Louie beating him up starving him to death leaving him unconscious he had so much anger towards him he was willing to kill him. Louie had lost all mercy for this person his high school self had come out of the …show more content…
Her parents wouldn't allow it because they have only known eachother for so little but she insisted after a few months they eloped sooner or later Louie became a drunk because he didn't have a war and he couldn't run due to the fact that The Bird had injured him preventing Louie from ever running again.”Cynthia pleaded with louie to stop drinking. It did no good”(Hillenbrand pg.372) Cynthia hurting she couldn't bring back louie. (Hillenbrand pg.372) The Graham had come to town it's a tent for people to listen to god or come together with god again cynthia has been asking louie to go and louie dodging his wife he would just wait until it left town. Cynthia kept asking louie and finally louie agreed to go to the tent the first time he went it didn't go so well the preacher had said something that louis didn't like which lead to louie leaving the tent; he had made another attempt to go because cynthia wouldn't stop bothering him about it and once again the pastor had said something that ticked louie off but this time was different he had a flashback to when he was at sea when he was praying to god that if he had let him live he would owe his life “if you will save me, I will serve you forever.”(Hillenbrand pg.382) “For the first time in five