Unbroken Rhetorical Analysis

Everyone after something big happens in life has a hard time being motivated. Most people would just push away their feelings from what happened then confronting the intense feelings of grief and guilt. One person who did this was Annie Cantrell from We are Marshall. She was engaged to Paul Griffin's son, Chris, who died in the plane crash. After her fiancee’s death she had trouble with being motivated to move on with the grief she had from his death and all the guilt that came along with it. Her fiance father told her that “ he knows she loved Chris and Chris loved her, but she shouldn’t let his death stop her from living her dreams.” When he told her that he gave her the hope things can and will get better and with that hope she was able to follow her dreams and move to California. …show more content…
For instance Louie from the story “Unbroken” plane crashed into the sea during the Vietnamese war, was being shot at by the Vietnamese, and there was sharks surrounding him but he didn't give up hope. He could of easily given up hope since him and his two friends were “struggling to survive on 2 inflatable rafts for 46 days.” Louie didn’t give up hope him and his friends were motivated to work together by the hope they had to survive. With that hope They were determined to survive even after one of his friends, Mac dies he had severe guilt that mac worked so hard and still wasn’t able to live. With the hope they had they were able to “enjoy remarkable precision of mind, and were convinced that they were growing sharper each day.” With the motivation hope they were able to survive until they reached