Unbroken Essay From thief to runner, prisoner of war to camp counselor, Louie Zamperini has impacted the lives of people worldwide. Unbroken is a novel by Laura Hillenbrand about the life story and journey of Louie Zamperini. Louie was born and raised during the Great Depression. His brother Pete introduced Louie to running as a way to keep him out of trouble. Zamperini ran in the 1931 olympics before fighting to fighting in WWII as a part of a bomber crew. Battered, bloody, and bruised the crash of the Green Hornet was just the start of Louie’s suffering. Drifting amongst an endless ocean, rescue looked impossible, until they saw a bomber fly over head. This hope quickly turned sour when the bomber’s gunner started to shoot at the rafts.
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Between starvation, hard labor and abuse, Zamperini never gave up. “The bird tried to knock him down, Louie wobbled but wouldn’t fall” (Hillenbrand 252). Zamperini was targeted from day one as a pow, he was an easy target, not because he was weak but because he was strong. The bird made it his goal to break Zamperini, he wanted to prove he could break anyone. “Louie stood in the sun, holding the beam”(Hillenbrand 301). It ended after 37 minutes when the bird snapped and bat Louie while he was holding the beam. The will to continue when there seems to be no hope is the true definition of inner strength. Zamperini has always been strong, from his childhood to Olympic runner, he always had to be strong. However for his true inner strength to show it took becoming a pow under the control of the Japanese. Zamperini was subjected to medical tests, starvation and slave labor, but Zamperini never let the Japanese break him. Pain, starvation, slave labor, all are forms of suffering and all show who has the inner strength to continue. When getting beat at the hands of the bird Zamperini never lost hope. Never giving up, refusing to lose takes inner strength. At the end of the war he forgave all of the Japanese officials who did him wrong. He had the courage, the inner strength to be the bigger
Between starvation, hard labor and abuse, Zamperini never gave up. “The bird tried to knock him down, Louie wobbled but wouldn’t fall” (Hillenbrand 252). Zamperini was targeted from day one as a pow, he was an easy target, not because he was weak but because he was strong. The bird made it his goal to break Zamperini, he wanted to prove he could break anyone. “Louie stood in the sun, holding the beam”(Hillenbrand 301). It ended after 37 minutes when the bird snapped and bat Louie while he was holding the beam. The will to continue when there seems to be no hope is the true definition of inner strength. Zamperini has always been strong, from his childhood to Olympic runner, he always had to be strong. However for his true inner strength to show it took becoming a pow under the control of the Japanese. Zamperini was subjected to medical tests, starvation and slave labor, but Zamperini never let the Japanese break him. Pain, starvation, slave labor, all are forms of suffering and all show who has the inner strength to continue. When getting beat at the hands of the bird Zamperini never lost hope. Never giving up, refusing to lose takes inner strength. At the end of the war he forgave all of the Japanese officials who did him wrong. He had the courage, the inner strength to be the bigger