Quoted by Thomas Hardy “A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it must have something more unusual to relate than he ordinary experience of every average man and woman,” this quote relates to the non-fiction story Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. The quote by Hardy means that a person does not want to hear a story that can be repeated by any average person, many people are interested in hearing a story that is un-relatable and unique to that person. The story Unbroken relates to the quote by Hardy since no one has experienced what Louie Zamperini and his fellow prisoners of war (POW) experienced during war. Thomas Hardy’s quote agrees with the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, since average people do not experience what
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Louie Zamperini and his fellow bomber crew crash landed into an ocean and was missing at sea for forty-seven days until discovered by the Japanese. According to Hillenbrand, “the men’s scaled skin cracked and their lips ballooned, bulging against their nostrils and chins. Their feet were cratered with quarter-sized salt sores” (Hillenbrand 112), many times when someone is suffering it is easy to find help, and help them heal. Louie Zamperini and two other survivors of the plane crash, Russel Phillips (Phil) and Francis McNamara (Mac), the men do not have any assistance in trying to heal except for one another. Another statement Hillenbrand makes, “If the men couldn’t reinflate the raft immediately, the sharks would take them” (Hillenbrand 121), often people hear a story based on Hillenbrand statement from a fiction story but never from a person who experienced this in real life. This scenario is different from the Titanic scenario, though both scenarios experience a crash into the water and had someone they know die, those that made it onto a life raft had a better chance of surviving. In Unbroken, Zamperini and fellow bomb crew had a raft that had to be inflated which gave them less of a chance to survive if the raft were to be popped, while on the Titanic there was wooden boats which had a better chance of survival since wood is meant to be sturdy. There is a better possibility of hearing from a Titanic survivor than a plane crash survivor which makes their story more unique. [ending
Louie Zamperini and his fellow bomber crew crash landed into an ocean and was missing at sea for forty-seven days until discovered by the Japanese. According to Hillenbrand, “the men’s scaled skin cracked and their lips ballooned, bulging against their nostrils and chins. Their feet were cratered with quarter-sized salt sores” (Hillenbrand 112), many times when someone is suffering it is easy to find help, and help them heal. Louie Zamperini and two other survivors of the plane crash, Russel Phillips (Phil) and Francis McNamara (Mac), the men do not have any assistance in trying to heal except for one another. Another statement Hillenbrand makes, “If the men couldn’t reinflate the raft immediately, the sharks would take them” (Hillenbrand 121), often people hear a story based on Hillenbrand statement from a fiction story but never from a person who experienced this in real life. This scenario is different from the Titanic scenario, though both scenarios experience a crash into the water and had someone they know die, those that made it onto a life raft had a better chance of surviving. In Unbroken, Zamperini and fellow bomb crew had a raft that had to be inflated which gave them less of a chance to survive if the raft were to be popped, while on the Titanic there was wooden boats which had a better chance of survival since wood is meant to be sturdy. There is a better possibility of hearing from a Titanic survivor than a plane crash survivor which makes their story more unique. [ending