Dignity In The Book 'Unbroken'

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I read the book unbroken and I think that this quote is essential to this book because it tells that “ Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.” It really tells that a man is nothing without his dignity and his pride, with out that he is as good as dead. The book really goes into detail about a average boy who becomes an amazing man who has been thru and seen a lot of things. He was born in 1917, Louie Zamperini was the child of Italian immigrants. He grew up in Torrance with the disadvantage of being in poverty and anti-Italian bias, Louie countinude to get in trouble with the law as he started smoking when he was 5 years old and drinking when he was 8. He stole anything he wanted like food, money, and whatever else

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