Unbroken tells the true story of Louis Zamperini, and Olympic runner and serviceman during World War II, who was captured by Japanese after his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Unbroken, also authored a number one New York Times Bestseller, Seabiscuit. Hillenbrand studied at Kenyon College, but left early after the onset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) caused her to not have enough energy to attend. In order to write the book, Hillenbrand interviewed Louis Zamperini himself, who is now ninety-seven. The author’s purpose in writing Unbroken was to tell a true story of the childhood, fame, imprisonment, and recovery of Louis Zamperini. This purpose was well accomplished through her detailed writing
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Clearly this should not be a plausible enough story to go into a nonfiction book. Adding to the implausible stories in Unbroken, the book also used adjectives, verbs, and literary devices that would suggest it was of a genre other than nonfiction. One literary device used in this book that should not be in a nonfiction book becomes apparent when the author attempts to foreshadow while describing an American bombing of a Japanese island:
What neither Louis nor any of the other airmen knew was that among the men under their bombers that night were the ninety-eight Americans who had been captured and enslaved. (Hillenbrand 74)
Here, the author implied that Louis and the other airmen could have possibly killed Americans while trying to fight the Japanese, when later on in the book it can be found that all of the American captives survived. A nonfiction book should not attempt to hide any information from the reader. An example of the vivid adjectives used by the author that should not be found in a nonfiction book appears when Hillenbrand describes the attack of Japanese Zeros (kamikaze fighter planes) on Zamperini during a mission to bomb
Clearly this should not be a plausible enough story to go into a nonfiction book. Adding to the implausible stories in Unbroken, the book also used adjectives, verbs, and literary devices that would suggest it was of a genre other than nonfiction. One literary device used in this book that should not be in a nonfiction book becomes apparent when the author attempts to foreshadow while describing an American bombing of a Japanese island:
What neither Louis nor any of the other airmen knew was that among the men under their bombers that night were the ninety-eight Americans who had been captured and enslaved. (Hillenbrand 74)
Here, the author implied that Louis and the other airmen could have possibly killed Americans while trying to fight the Japanese, when later on in the book it can be found that all of the American captives survived. A nonfiction book should not attempt to hide any information from the reader. An example of the vivid adjectives used by the author that should not be found in a nonfiction book appears when Hillenbrand describes the attack of Japanese Zeros (kamikaze fighter planes) on Zamperini during a mission to bomb