Unbroken Essay

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…

The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand starts off with a twelve year old boy who’s name is Louise Zamperini who lives in Torrance, California. It is 1929 and he is awoken in the night by a loud sound. He rushes to his back yard and sees a Graf Zeppelin a German dirigible plane. Louie as any child would was amazed by the Graf Zeppelin astounded Louie was not the best child, he was known as a thief. If anything went missing in anyone’s house in Torrance they knew whose door to knock on. “He…

said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay 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 strong.” In Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini showed that he could be loyal to his friends in their time of need. Louie like a loyal dog never gave up on his friends when they were in their time of need and was always supportive of them. When…

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is an understatement of a WWII survival story. There are hundreds of horrific survival stories shared from brave veterans, choosing to relive the worst moments of their entire lives just so we can understand history. Unbroken, however, is on another scale of horrific. This book is about a man named Louis Zamperini, an Olympic track star from Southern California whose race to the gold medal was cut short by one of the worst war experiences ever told. His WWII story…

through terrible trials that will later on shape who we are. Sometimes these trials come at the hand of those that are culturally different than us. If they are different that means we can’t survive what they put us through, right? Wrong. The movie Unbroken shows that no matter the situation, or ethnic backgrounds there is always a fighting chance. The main character, Louis Zamperini, was a famous Olympian who was drafted into World War II and taken as Japanese war prisoner. Zamperini was forced…

In the book Unbroken, A man lost at sea faces great dangers. Surviving with limited food, water and useless comrades he must find a way to survive. Throughout his journey, Louie went through many positive and negative experiences which ultimately left a heavy impact on him. As Louie was growing up being the reckless child he was, he took many blows and hits by people, not once did his stubbornness let him fall. On the other hand, Louie is a huge risk taker, who proves perseverance can be an…

The Unbroken Louie Zamperini Louie is a very mischievous boy in the beginning of his life but later on in his life he becomes a very loyal, trustworthy, and honorable. Louie goes into the Air force and goes through a tough journey but makes it out alive. As a child Louie was very bad. He liked to steal, smoke, drink, runaway, break into things like houses, picked locks, and took money from payphones. When Louie grew older, citizens started liking him but not by much. He began his “running…

reassure them of an eventual victory. Churchill might as well have been speaking directly to Louis Zamperini “the boy terror of Torrance”, a born track star turned war hero, that persevered through the worst of the worst. Laura Hillenbrand, author of Unbroken, shares Zamperini’s heart-wrenching story and his unbelievable ability to tackle the unheard of. It all started throughout his high school career in California. Zamperini excelled in track and anything to do with athletics, but he worked…

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can hold on.”(James Frey). In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie faces many obstacles that he overcomes. Louie had a rough start to his life. At a young age, Louie was drinking and smoking, but he got better when he started training with his brother Pete for the Olympics. Louie went back downhill again when he went to war. He suffered as a POW in the war. Louie thought almost for sure he was not going to make it.…

Matthew Wydra John McManus History 3441 March 4, 2023 Film Review of Unbroken “Unbroken” is a truly heart touching story of an Italian American athlete named Louis Zamperini and his struggles in the war and his mindset needed to survive the Japanese POW camps. The first scene of the movie throws you into a mission of making a bombing run. Zamperini is the crew’s bombardier and is trying his hardest to target the drop zone. I think the amount of stress the crew and especially Zamperini is under…