Louie Zamperini: An Uncorrectable Child Of Unbroken

Louie Zamperini was an uncorrectable child in Unbroken. As a teen, he channeled all his defiance into running, which carried him to the Berlin Olympics. However, when WWII began, Louie became an airman. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean Louie survived with two others. Louie, against all odds survived the months on the raft along with Phil, however his other friend, Mac, did not survive for this long. Louie and Phil were soon met with a Japanese ship, who captured the two of them, taking them as prisoners. The first group wasn’t too bad and they helped the two recover, however they were shipped to multiple different camps throughout their time at the camps. Louie was quickly stripped of his humanity and dignity as

She was an US citizen at birth, and chose to reject learning the Japanese language. She applied to Berkeley, earning a scholarship. While earning degrees, she earned a fellowship to travel Europe and study art. However, her trip was cut short when her mother had fallen gravely ill in 1938. After Pearl Harbor happened Japanese-Americans were placed into intern camps. In the fall of 1941, Miné Okubo and her brother Toku were moved to an assembly area in downtown Berkeley. Miné was given tags with “No. 7” printed on it, reducing her family name to only a number. While Louie, the American soldier POW at a Japanese internment camp, and Miné, a Japanese-American in an American internment camp, were both stripped of their dignity and dehumanized, however they both bounced back and resisted the attempts that people brought upon them to make them

“Defiance took on a life of its of own. Men would smiles and address the guards in friendly tones, cooing out insults filthy enough to curl a man’s hair. One captive convinced a particularly dim witted guard that a sundial would work at night if you used a match. A fragrant favorite involved saving up intestinal gas, explosively voluminous thanks to chronic dysentery, prior to tenko. When the men were ordered to bow towards to the emperor, the captives would pitch forward in concert and let thunderclaps fly for Hirohito” (Page 210). “She also taught an art class to children in the camp and illustrated the front cover of Trek, a magazine created by the internees. She took a chance by entering a Berkeley art contest through the mail, and she won” (The Life Of Miné Okubo). Both Louie, Miné, and the other captives all had their different ways of bouncing back, however they all fought their way to become bigger than their enemy. For example, with the acts of the American POWs in the Japanese camp, “As dangerous as these acts were, for the POWs they were transformative. In risking their necks to sabotage their enemy, the men were no longer passive captives. They were soldiers again” (Page