Laura Hillenbrand

“There is something quintessentially American about everyone in this story. [It’s about] triumph over hardship- that’s the journey toward the American dream” (“Seabiscuit”). That was a quote form Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Seabiscuit, an American Legend, a New York Times best-seller. The American dream is the ideal that every US citizens should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. An influential character in…

Louis Zamperini spent 47 days stranded in the Pacific with the constant danger of the sharks surrounding him. In the book unbroken sharks don’t only represent the danger they are themselves, but sharks also symbolize the trials Zam faced in the rest of his story. When thinking about sharks they tend to represent a fierce and relentless force of nature.When facing challenges in life it may end in the feeling that there is some force that is set on being against us, otherwise some relentless goal…

Throughout history there have been many biographies on important people’s lives but this has to be the best one. It is called Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, who had interviewed the one and only Louie Zamperini and wrote this book about him and his experiences throughout the ages. In this book she expresses the details and emotions of how Louie’s life had been through childhood and after the war. For now this will be about how running had influenced Louie’s life. When Louie was a young boy, his…

Acocella, Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Student Edition. Web. 14 Nov. 2015. This literary criticism is about how a man named John Ronald Reuel that many encouraged him to translate the poem Beowulf since the author of this poem is anonymous and unknown. Although he did publish the piece of literature, he did not publish it. Eventually, his son published the piece of literature forty years after the death of his father. Making Beowulf a popular poem at that time. The…

Horse racing has been in the eyes of the public for many years. How could it not be, with how much publicity surrounding it, much like football or baseball in the United States. Some of this publicity is good, with impressive feats such as the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years garnering an international audience. However, publicity can also be bad with animal rights activists (people who believe animals should live free unrestricted by humans and not used for food, clothes, sport, etc.)…

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 Louie didn’t think that he…

Adversity is a negative part of life which, unfortunately, affect virtually everyone. Adversity is not solely the hardships which cause physical stress; it also includes things that are a taxation on the mind or the heart. The Roman poet Horace holds the belief that the presence of adversity leads to the development of talents which would otherwise have remained undiscovered. While this may be true in some form for the books read over the summer, these are the exception to the rule. When…

Louie Zamperini’s life was documented in the book Unbroken which was written by Laura Hillenbrand. It goes onto explain how Louie Silvie Zamperini was born on January 26, 1917 to Italian immigrants in Olean, New York at eleven and a half pounds he had black hair as coarse as barbed wire. His parents Anthony and Louise got married when she was sixteen and had Louie was she was eighteen. They lived in an apartment where only Italian was spoke and they called their boys Toots. As Louie became a…

allow life to beat us 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 that strong.” In the non-fiction book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini’s unrelenting strength in the face of unimaginable horrors emulates the words spoken by Devers. Despite being subjected to constant torture and starvation in a Japanese POW camp for two years, Louis remained resilient.…

There are serious problems with the Department of Veterans Affairs that need to change to give adequate benefits to those that need the Department’s services. There have been many articles telling of the hardships that veterans have had to go through to get the benefits that they deserve for fighting and getting injured in their service to the United States Armed Forces. Common sense seems to dictate that the government would take care of the veterans that served their country, and yet it seems…