The name of the book is Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Unbroken was written by Laura Hillenbrand about the Olympic athlete and war veteran Louie Zamperini. Unbroken the novel was released in 2010. The movie is called Unbroken and it was directed by Angelina Jolie. Louie Zamperini was played by actor Jack O'Connell. The movie Unbroken was released in 2014. The main prominent characters in Unbroken are Louie, Phil, and The Bird. Although most of the things that happen in the book happen in the movie, there are a few differences that slightly change the story. The book was received better than the movie because the movie had quite a few differences from Louie’s true story. The book covers a lot of Louie’s …show more content…
Eventually, Louie’s older brother Pete starts training Louie to run track. Louie’s life turns around with the help of Pete, and the young Zamperini becomes a track star. After years of setting new records, Louie runs in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin where he meets Adolf Hitler. When World War II starts, Louie’s running career is put on hold. The young Olympic runner enlists in the army air corps and becomes a bombardier. A little while into the war, Louie along with his crew get shot down by Japanese over the Pacific Ocean. Only Louie, the pilot Phil, and a crewman named Mac survive the crash. The trio are at sea for a long time. Louie wrestles a shark, and Mac dies at sea. Louie and Phil survive for a total of forty seven days until they are captured by the Japanese and sent to a prison camp. The two men are shuffled from one camp to another throughout the entirety of the war. Louie is constantly followed and beaten by a sadistic guard nicknamed the Bird. Louie survives the war despite being tortured by the Japanese. When the Allies had won and the war was over, Louie went back to the U.S. and was reunited with his family. Soon after, Louie married a girl named Cynthia. It was love at first sight. After the couple have a daughter, Louie starts to
The Outsiders was a great book, and the movie was a great way to wrap everything up. There were some similarities, but a lot more differences. When I watched the movie, I could see how the characters in the movie didn't exactly match how they were portrayed in the book. My imagination was on a different track than what I saw in the movie. In my next paragraph I will explain the character differences in the book and the movie.
In Unbroken: A world war 2 story of survival, resilience, and redemption- by Laura Hillenbrand; young Louie Zamperini is a delinquent of Torrance, California. He steals food, runs around like hell and even dreams of hoping on a train and running away for good. However, Pete, his older manages to turn his life around by turning his love of running from the law into a passion for track and field. Zamperini is so fast that he breaks his high school’s mile record, resulting in him attending the olympics in berlin in 1936. His running career however was put on hold when World war 2 broke out, he enlisted in the the Air Corps and becomes a bombardier. During a harrowing battle, the “superman” gets hit numerous times with japanese bullets destroying
On April 24, 1967, a remarkable book was published by eighteen year old S. E. Hinton. Themed on a greaser named Ponyboy who him and his gang are treated badly by the Socs, the book is about Ponyboy and his best friend Johnny on the run after Johnny kills a Soc. With help from one of their gang members, they sneak on a train to get to a church in the countryside. While eating at a restaurant, the old church catches fire with kids stuck in it, leaving Johnny and Ponyboy the ones to save the kids. While saving the children, a large, scorching piece of timber falls on Johnny, putting him in critical condition. While Johnny is in the hospital, a ‘rumble’ goes on in which the Socs and greasers fight in the vacant lot,
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After World War II, Louie Zamperini writes a letter to Mutsuhiro Watanabe, also known as “the Bird” saying that, “The post-war nightmares caused my life to crumble, but thanks to a confrontation with God through the evangelist Billy Graham, I committed my life to Christ. Love has replaced the hate I had for you. Christ said, ‘Forgive your enemies and pray for them.”’ This is demonstrated in the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. This tells an emotional story about Louie Zamperini's experiences as an Olympic athlete, World War II veteran, and an American POW. After his Olympic dreams are crushed when he gets drafted at age 24, he experienced things most people cannot even imagine, when he returns he makes
Injuring his ankle again during training for the 1948 Olympics, ruining his chances of racing, had been the last straw for Louie and he turned to drinking. The nightmares of “the Bird”, his captor and main source of abuse as a POW, had gotten so bad where he reached the point of hurting others in his sleep and in flashbacks. His motivation to get a job and stop drinking were virtually nonexistent, until his wife, Cynthia, and some friends relentlessly encouraged him to go to a sermon by a man named Billy Graham. For Louie, reuniting with God had helped him turn his life around. Others may have to take a different route, but there is always something that can help pull people out of their anguish. Bad times don’t last forever, it just takes some patience, optimism, hope, and determination to get through them. Making peace with what happened to him helped Louie’s nightmares to cease and allowed him to visit Japan, offering forgiveness to those that mistreated him. Displaying self-discipline to change, as well as the pure, liberating act of forgiving others, is something anyone is capable of; Louie’s portrayal of this proves his much deserved status as a role
In the book “Unbroken”, Laura Hillenbrand does an excellent job in describing Louis “Louie” Zamperini’s transformation from troublesome child to a hardworking Olympic runner. Louie's brother saw running as a way for Louie to get his mind off of stealing, drinking, and bullying. Louie not only became an Olympic runner, but he had also become a man that never gives up, no matter the challenge. His transformation at a young age helps him through childhood, a plane crash, and even a Japanese POW camp.
Although, in the beginning of the book, he is not in a life threatening position, he still faced the theme of survival and perseverance. When he trained getting into the Berlin Olympics, he persevered through endless training, in which he had to endure many hardships. For example, when Louie just finished a 5000m race and, “the injured toe in training opened up again” (23). This shows us how Louie trained endlessly to pursue his goal and had to survive all the hardships he faced, even though it was not life-threatening. Another instance when Louie was near the edge of survival was in the Berlin Olympics when he was almost at the finish line when he remembered what his brother said, “A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain” (34). After this he ran with all his might and his dying breath to run the best he could. When he was almost at the finish line, Louie, “With the last of his strength threw himself over the line” (34). This shows how he persevered with all his strength and on the edge of survival to run the best race he
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit would once again take the world by storm with her latest novel, Unbroken. The story follows Olympic runner Louie Zamperini through his troubled youth and later life. Without doubt, the story of Louie Zamperini is a story of survival, resilience, and redemption, covering the greatest feat of the human spirit, pushing him to the breaking point all the while testing his endurance in fatal situations.
A record holding olympic runner, the man who survived more than 30 days on a raft only to be rescued by the japanese and put in pow camps, Louie Zamperini was the man who done this, and lived. Louie was a very disobedient child, he drank beer and smoked cigarettes at a very young age. Louie loved running and since his childhood he was so fast he could outrun police foot runners, and his brother Pete put this in use and later Louie went into the olympics. Although Louie Zamperini didn't get first place he had broken the fastest lap world record, and soon zamperini went to war. The book Unbroken was a story Laura Hillenbrand made from the great story of Louie Zamperini, Louie was said to be optimistic and forgiving at all circumstances.
The books, A Wrinkle in Time and And Then There Were None, both have many differences in the movie versions. The directors of both movies change the plot to make the movie see fit to what they may have imaged the book to be, while still keeping the story line the same.
Character Analysis of Louie Zamperini Louie Zamperini has escaped the grievance with his life and has become an advanced soul. Louie Zamperini lived in a miniature house in Torrance, California. He was a fascinating Olympian. He was also held captive as a prisoner of war. In the book Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses the life experiences of Louie Zamperini to show the traits of optimism and rebelliousness.
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.
For a long time, when anyone thought of a war movie, they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s, The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan, who was the author of the book by the same name, and happened to be a D-day veteran himself, wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story involving characters, and neither was the film. The Longest Day is more a story of tragedy, glory, and courage surrounding one very important day. And even though mainly American and English filmmakers produced the movie, the movie and book both portray the Germans fairly. But the film added so much to the story that the book could not. Without some of the stunning visuals that the five (Zanuck went unaccredited, but was said to have directed over half the movie) directors put in the film, it would have been impossible to comprehend the scale of it all.
The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in the movie, we only get to see his actions.