Louie Zamperini's Unbroken

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Louie Zamperini’s life has many lessons for teenagers to learn. Louie wasn’t always the best influence on others. He use to steal from stores and get into fights. Through all that his brother saved him and his life and made him run in their high school track team. Louie shows teenagers valuable life lessons like how to show respect, how to never give up, and how to not believe what others say. First of all, teenagers should read Unbroken because Louie shows them that through his life you have to respect people. When Louie was a prisoner in a war camp in Japan, he showed respect to the officers. There was one officer named “The Bird” and he would beat Louie every chance he had. Louie was picked out of the crowd to be beaten because “The Bird” felt intimidated by him. Teenagers can learn that Louie never fought back against any of the officers. He showed a respect to them as he would have wanted if he was in their place. …show more content…

When Louie went down in the Green Hornet he was entangled in wires from the plane and he was slowly drowning. Louie eventually became untangled from the wires and rose to the surface. If Louie had just gave up he wouldn’t have survived the crash. For most teenagers when a problem becomes to big or difficult they give up and Louie shows you can’t do that. Not only did Louie not give up during the crash, he also didn’t give up in the POW camp. If he would have gave up which would have been very easy then he would face certain death. The officers at the POW camps knew he was an athlete and that put a target on his back. Louie never gave up despite the starvation, beatings, and

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