In the words of Gail Devers, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the nonfictional, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini, being the clever man he is, demonstrates Dever’s words though the 36’ Olympics, a treacherous trek in the Pacific, and in many Japanese POW camps.
In his early days in Berlin, Louie already began expressing his mischievous cleverness. Zamperini, feeling like he was being given the stink eye from some of his fellow athletes, he used his sly, quick of hand to get back at them: “Louie was housed in a cottage with several other athletes, including Owens. The great sprinter kept a fatherly eye on him; Louie repaid him by seeking his DO NOT DISTURB sign, leaving …show more content…
Louie and the other allied troops devised a maniacal plan to kill one of their captors: “Louie was tasked with stealing enough strong rope to lash the rock to the Bird”(304). In the cold environment, they decided to minimize their suffering by overpowering the killing the most hated of all the guards: The Bird. The initial plan was to tie him to a boulder, and then roll him off a cliff, potentially plumbing to his death. The plan did not go into effect for they were saved by the news of the wars end. Giving the Bird time to run away. When the Zamperinis heard of their sons survival, his father remarked; “Those Japs couldn’t break him...My boy’s pretty tough, you know”(331). Throughout the long, distraught days of imprisonment. Louie’s family still had faith that their boy was still alive and kicking. Through outwitting and outsmarting his captors, Louie managed to survive the war with his comrades and his mere
In his early days in Berlin, Louie already began expressing his mischievous cleverness. Zamperini, feeling like he was being given the stink eye from some of his fellow athletes, he used his sly, quick of hand to get back at them: “Louie was housed in a cottage with several other athletes, including Owens. The great sprinter kept a fatherly eye on him; Louie repaid him by seeking his DO NOT DISTURB sign, leaving …show more content…
Louie and the other allied troops devised a maniacal plan to kill one of their captors: “Louie was tasked with stealing enough strong rope to lash the rock to the Bird”(304). In the cold environment, they decided to minimize their suffering by overpowering the killing the most hated of all the guards: The Bird. The initial plan was to tie him to a boulder, and then roll him off a cliff, potentially plumbing to his death. The plan did not go into effect for they were saved by the news of the wars end. Giving the Bird time to run away. When the Zamperinis heard of their sons survival, his father remarked; “Those Japs couldn’t break him...My boy’s pretty tough, you know”(331). Throughout the long, distraught days of imprisonment. Louie’s family still had faith that their boy was still alive and kicking. Through outwitting and outsmarting his captors, Louie managed to survive the war with his comrades and his mere