Unbroken Book Report

The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand starts off with a twelve year old boy who’s name is Louise Zamperini who lives in Torrance, California. It is 1929 and he is awoken in the night by a loud sound. He rushes to his back yard and sees a Graf Zeppelin a German dirigible plane. Louie as any child would was amazed by the Graf Zeppelin astounded Louie was not the best child, he was known as a thief. If anything went missing in anyone’s house in Torrance they knew whose door to knock on. “He socked a girl. He pushed a teacher. He pelted a policeman with rotten tomatoes”(Hillenbrand 9). Once Louie was fourteen years old, he learned in his “locksmith shop… that if you put any key in any lock, it has a one-in-fifty chance of fitting”(Hillenbrand 13). That one saying stuck with him. Louie started collecting keys and started trying random locks.vHe tried his own house keys on the back door of “Terrance High gym”(Hillenbrand 13). Once he found out his key opens the gym, he helped some students sneak into the gym for free at a basketball game. “Someone caught on…” and Louie was called into the Principle’s office (Hillenbrand 14). Louie was punished by not being allowed to join any clubs or athletics, but his brother Pete argued that he would turn his life around with athletics. Louie was allowed to join sports again thanks to his older …show more content…
Reading threw this book people get more than emotionally attached. I will admit there was cry through chapters and yelling at the Japanese commanders to leave Louie alone. And then when reading I realized that I was yelling into these pages like I was there in the book and I knew I was more than emotionally attached I was addicted to this book. Unbroken pulls you in and makes you feel like you know Louie personally and the author makes emotions come out. This book makes want to read more and more because of all the specific detail and how much you get attached to