From the beginning to the end of Laura Hillenbrand's biography of Louis Zamperini, Unbroken, we look on as Louis changes from a juvenile delinquent to a lover of Christ and an upstanding citizen. The story begins with a teenage Louie, who is quite an angry kid. He is always stealing things, ditching school, and bullying others. During P.E. one day, Louis’ coach pulls him aside and tells him that he should join the track team. During one of the meets, as he is passing everyone he realizes…he can focus his anger on the track rather than the people in his life. He started to centralize his energy on running and getting faster and faster. Later in the biography, Louis Zamperini decides to join the U.S. Army Air Corps and it’s fight during the second
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After a month and a half adrift, Louis and Phil find an island (Mac did not survive). Little did they know, these two men had just landed on a Japanese POW island. They spend the two years in Naoetsu POW camp. He is tormented by “The Bird”, whose life goal is to break Louis Zamperini. Louis is resilient and takes the Birds beatings with pride. At the end of the bio, Laura depicts Louis Post war woes. It is including but not limited to, drug use, aggressiveness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, nightmares, alcoholism, and the need for revenge against The Bird. In the last chapter, Louie’s wife Cynthia convinces him to go to a Billy Graham sermon at the nearby park. Louis soon becomes bored out of his mind and is about to leave the tent when Billy says quotes a verse that directly applies to his post war trauma. He makes a sudden revelation that this is his answer to his sorrows Louis turns on the spot and accepts Christ. After all of his anguish, he sleeps the entire night through and feel refreshed. Later in his life, Louis visits the the prison where all his POW guards were kept. He felt revived and was able to forgive them
After a month and a half adrift, Louis and Phil find an island (Mac did not survive). Little did they know, these two men had just landed on a Japanese POW island. They spend the two years in Naoetsu POW camp. He is tormented by “The Bird”, whose life goal is to break Louis Zamperini. Louis is resilient and takes the Birds beatings with pride. At the end of the bio, Laura depicts Louis Post war woes. It is including but not limited to, drug use, aggressiveness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, nightmares, alcoholism, and the need for revenge against The Bird. In the last chapter, Louie’s wife Cynthia convinces him to go to a Billy Graham sermon at the nearby park. Louis soon becomes bored out of his mind and is about to leave the tent when Billy says quotes a verse that directly applies to his post war trauma. He makes a sudden revelation that this is his answer to his sorrows Louis turns on the spot and accepts Christ. After all of his anguish, he sleeps the entire night through and feel refreshed. Later in his life, Louis visits the the prison where all his POW guards were kept. He felt revived and was able to forgive them