Laura Hillenbrand

such as food, water, and proper shelter, and on top of all of these extreme injustices they are forced to carry out back breaking work in such conditions. All of these cruel practices are demonstrated in the popular book, Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand . Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini, a famous Olympic runner who is also a pilot for the U.S. military fighting in World War II. He is also a prisoner of war. These “POW camps” the men were held in are smothering holes of despair and defeat…

Unbroken Unbroken is a movie that was directed by Angelina Jolie, and is about a famous Olympic runner that is in the United States Air Force and while flying a mission his plane goes down. Louis Zamperini and his friends spent forty-seven days in a raft before being picked up by a Japanese Navy vessel and then becoming a prisoner of war. The movie was released in Sydney on November 17, 2014. The movie later released in the United States on December 25, 2014. The ticket sales were successful…

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, shares the incredible life story of Louis Zamperini who has truly done it all. His list of accomplishments range from being an olympic runner all the way to opening a nonprofit youth camp for boys. This novel takes place during World War II and offers an insightful glance into the lives of prisoners of war such as Louis Zamperini. Hillenbrand tells their powerful stories to show the perseverance of the Americans during this point in history. The story of Louis…

Throughout life you hear sayings on the morals of life and your outlook on life and the world. An example of these sayings is when Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Well done is better than well-said”. This renowned statement is more commonly known by its modern translation of, “Actions speak louder than words” is irrefutably true in the manner of which it delivers and accurate life lesson and morals to abide by in life. These morals are demonstrated constantly in literature; profoundly so in Maus I,…

During Louie's life, he was a very determined man. He had a very important role in the military, a bombardier, and flying overseas in a over sized plane was very dangerous, especially during war. But he held on strongly. In the book Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses the life experiences of Louie Zamperini to show the traits of optimistic and determined. Going down! The B-24 dropped down towards sea. Now Louie, Mac and Phil are on a small raft drifting at sea for over a month. With no food left…

Biography of Louis Zamperini and his life from an Olympic runner to a stranded bomber pilot at sea all the way to his experiences as a prisoner of war and the effects it had on his life after war and how through it all he survived. Author Laura Hillenbrand is an award-winning author whose chose to write the biography Of Louis Zamperini a world war 2 story of redemption, resilience, and most of all of survival. She also wrote the award-winning book Seabiscuit. I decided to do I book review on…

Nobody is perfect and even the best of people make bad decisions. Those bad decisions might even outweigh the good they have done. This is a lesson that will be learned throughout the two stories Odyssey by Homer, and Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. Two people that are thought to be great heroes make decisions that put being heroes in question. They also make them seem like the best of heroes. Odysseus was away from home for 20 years and he tried his hardest to get back home to see his wife and…

visible or quiet and remote. It affects the individual and entire societies, the soldier, and the civilian. Both U.S. prisoners of war in Japan and Japanese- American citizens in the United States during WWII undergo efforts to make them “invisible”. Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken hero, Louie Zamperini, like so many other POW’S is imprisoned, beaten, and denied basic human right in POW camps throughout Japan. Miné Okubo, a U.S. citizen by birth, is removed from society and interned in a…

In Laura Hillenbrand's biography, Unbroken, reader's are introduced to Louie, a World War II hero, and two of his co-workers, Phil and Mac, find themselves in a life and death situation, after their plane just crashed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Since the characters are all in the edge of death, they all have to learn how to solve the different obstacles in order to contribute to the survival of each of them. In Kendra Cherry's article, What is Resilience, she talks about the skills…

The movie Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie is based on a true story written by Laura Hillenbrand. The story is a true story about a man named Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who is thrown into the world of war during World War II. The movie starts with Louis’s Italian family living in a small American town. Louis has a little trouble with the police when he’s young and while running away from them finds that he has a talent in running. After years of running in track and creating a better…