Laura Hillenbrand

stories of improbable victory the story of Seabiscuit rises above the rest in American culture. In Laura Hillenbrand's book an awkward, and stubborn horse named Seabiscuit becomes an unlikely hero as he is trained by an even more unlikely team of men and they rise to horse racing stardom. In the story, Seabiscuit races against a horse named War Admiral, who is favored to win by a long shot. Hillenbrand makes the reader feel as if there are actually at the race with her use of diction, imagery,…

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…

The author Laura Hillenbrand wrote the book UNBROKEN: A WORLD War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The book was published November 16, 2010. In the book, there is a character named Louis Zamperini he is an amazing runner and he is fast. Zamperini had many challenges through his early on years of life and was figuring everything out. He went through some tragic challenges after he was done with the running career that he had started and went on to something else that was…

Laura Hillenbrand,best selling author and highly esteemed writer of Unbroken, was born May 15, 1967 in Fairfax,Virginia. Hillenbrand was raised with three other siblings and learned to love reading and riding horses. As a young girl, she loved to listen to her parents and swim coach tell her stories, which sparked her interest in writing; this new hobby soon grew into a passion which took up most of her time. After high school, Hillenbrand attended Kenyon College in Ohio, where she continued her…

The novel Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand is a story of resilience and fight. Louie Zamperini went from being a problem child, to olympian, to a prisoner of war. His life before the war was not perfect. He was strong-willed and fought for everything. This attitude showed during the years of war when he became drafted into the Army Air Forces for the United States. After crash landing into the water and being lost at sea for 47 days, his life became a struggle for survival as he got sent to…

going” (Forbes) to 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…

“boost morale” (). The disregard of safety in Lost in Shangri-La closely resembles that of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand in which a group of soldiers discounts the fact that their plane is too destroyed to fly safely, resulting in a crash and the death of most of the passengers. Hillenbrand tells the story of Unbroken well, but Zuckoff displays the true vulnerability of humanity that Hillenbrand doesn’t capture. Mitchell Zuckoff elaborately brings the tale of Lost in Shangri-La to life. With…

“I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race,” said Louis Zamperini. The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, displays Zamperini’s life from adolescence to when he was in his nineties. This novel tells the life of a B-24 bombardier and Olympic runner fighting his whole life. As a young kid, Louie likes to steal and eventually running away upon his return home, he was forced to run track to deal with his behavior. Allowing his brother Pete to help…

possible jobs for him to do as a prisoner. To survive he knew he needed food, and he had the courage to ask his worst enemy for work, even though he knew that the Bird might beat him or he would only injure his bad leg some more. In Chapter 29, Hillenbrand says, “Louie began whispering to each man to just do it, and hit hard” (209). He didn’t want any other men to be punished so he stood up and offered himself to get hit and beaten harder so no other men would get the punishment. More evidence…

life would never be the same again. He experienced and suffered through a plane crash, lack of food and water, predator attacks, and most of all, Japanese imprisonment (Hillenbrand 125, 162, 197). At these camps, he was tortured, beaten, verbally afflicted, and starved worse than anything a person could ever dream of (Hillenbrand 300). However, Zamperini stood tall and knew that all of the pain and suffering was temporary and would soon come to an end. His faith in the light at the end of the…