Despair, hope and the struggle to survive; he has endured all of these. A famous olympic athlete, he dedicated his life to running. That is, until the war, where he was forced to join the army to fight against Japan. His plane crashed and him with his friend survived, only to end up in the grasps of the enemy. Optimistic and resourceful, This is Louie Zamperini, from one of Lauren Hillenbrand’s best selling books, unbroken.
First off, Louie is forgiving, “They’d be rescued today, perhaps tomorrow, he told himself, and the chocolate wouldn’t matter.” (Hillenbrand, 107-108) After Louie and the two of his friends survived the crash that killed the rest of their crew, Mac ate their only food, which louie disregarded to think