The movie Unbroken is a war drama film based on a true story. The setting of the film takes place during World War II. A boy goes through trouble, athletic success to a survivor for his country. A young boy by the name of Louise “Louie” Zamperini begins his life as a troubled kid. Not obeying the rules of his mother, drinking alcohol, smoking behind buildings and getting into fights with the little boys that picked on him. He was pushed by his older brother who ran track to start his life in track. He wasn’t convinced at first but he trains and trains with the help of his brother. Louie became the greatest runner in high school and was well on his way towards the Olympics. His brother trains with him daily when Louie becomes one of the greatest distance runners and earning the nickname, “The …show more content…
Louie gets better and better and qualifies for the Summer Olympics. Louie sets records at the Olympics finishing the last lap in 56 seconds. He surprised himself as well as his fans and family. In 1943, Louie joined the United States Army Air Forces, where he flew a plane of the United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator. The plan had a small accident but they made recovery for the next mission they had where they were called on a search mission. The plane they are now on was once used for spare parts and they don’t believe it’s safe to be in but they fly anyways. In the air, both engines fail sending the plane and all the crewmen into the ocean. Louie and two other crewmen were survivors of this crash. Conditions were hard but not limited to harsh storms, limited food and failed attempts of being rescued by planes that flew above them. They lived out in the ocean on blow up raft boats for 47 days. On the 27th day they were
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
In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, young Louie Zamperini is the troublemaker of Torrance, California. After his life had taken a mischievous turn, his older brother, Pete, managed to convert his love of running away, into a passion for running on the track. At first, Louie’s old habit of smoking gets the best of him, and it is very hard for him to compare to the other track athletes. After a few months of training, coached by Pete, Louie begins to break high school records, and became the fastest high school miler in 1934. After much more hard work, goes to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 but is no match for the Finnish runners. He trains hard for the next Olympic Games, and hopes to beat the four minute
When Louie was a teenager he wanted to find ways to stop people from bullying him. His father helped him learn to defend himself with a punching bag and homemade barbell (Unbroken 9). He soon defeated his bullies. This toughness also helped him during his running career. During a NCAA meet, some runners tried to sabotage him in the middle of a race. The men used the spikes on their shoes to stab and cut Louie. Though he was bleeding and in pain, his toughness helped him to win the race and set a new NCAA mile record of 4:08.3 seconds (Unbroken 44). This would never equal the toughness Louie needed to survive at the POW camps. At these camps, he was locked in small, confined spaces, beaten, humiliated and forced to work hours to just receive small rations of food. Louie could have easily given up and accepted his impending death; instead, he kept his head held high and did not give up. His toughness kept him ready to take on whatever life threw his
A huge part of the story showed how a person could overcome all the odds to become successful is feats such as sports and other activities. Most sports champions show great endurance to win many competitions. Similarly, Hillenbrand indicated that Louis, a competitive runner, trained until “he (had) rubbed the skin right off one of his toes, (leaving) his sock bloody” (Hillenbrand 23). As a result of all the hard work, Louis overcome struggles such as a bleeding shin, broken ribs, and a damaged toe to set time records for many races. In my experiences, I see many people take sports and other extra-curricular activities as a burden without embracing the challenges. In contrast, Louis illustrates the rare athlete and human being who seeks solutions to
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
Louie didn’t like it much at first, but he started winning races and became the hero of the town. He trained like a machine and kept cutting his times down until he was running a mile in just over four minutes. He was nicknamed,”The Torrance Tornado” because of his speed. Louie eventually became so fast, that he qualified for the Olympics in Germany. The entire town of Torrance raised enough money to buy him a train ride to New York, where the athletes would leave from to go to the Olympics. When Louie raced, he felt slow because he overate on the 12 day boat ride to Germany, but he ran his last lap in 52 seconds, easily the fastest last lap of anybody racing in the 5k. He finished in 14:48.8 minutes, running an average pace of four minutes and 45 seconds per mile, finishing
Army Air Corps and was eventually stationed in Hawaii. In May 1943, he was serving as the bombardier on a B-24 that was searching for a missing plane when his own plane endured mechanical problems and went down in the Pacific. Of the 11 people onboard, only the 26-year-old Zamperini, along with the pilot and the tail gunner survived the initial crash. The three men stayed alive in their small raft by drinking rainwater and eating the occasional birds and fish they were able to catch, all while hiding from the Japanese and the onward threat of shark attacks. After a month at sea, Francis McNamara, the tail gunner, died. On their forty-seventh day in the raft, Zamperini and fellow survivor Russell Allen Phillips, having drifted around 2,000 miles since the crash, were picked up by Japanese sailors when trying to escape out of site on an island. For over two years, the two men were held in a series of prison camps, where they were repeatedly beaten and starved. They got three sips of water a day, a handful of grungy soup for breakfast and dinner, and an occasional wad of rice thrown through the window. Guards would force them to humiliate themselves by doing the can-can, singing, and putting his head into the latrine bucket. As an ex-Olympian, Zamperini was considered a useful tool by the Japanese and saved from execution; at the same time, however, he was singled out for particularly vicious and painful forms of torture. An
Louie Zamperini had 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 optimistic and rebellious.
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In the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, it follows a Olympian named Louie Zamperini, and his journey. Louie Zamperini was born in Olean, New York, his family later then moved to Torrance, California. Louie is: rebellious, resourceful, among many other things. Louie is who he is because of how he grew up, and the obstacles he overcame. Louie Zamperini shows rebellious and resourceful characteristic traits through his actions.
Limited Too was the girls and tween store of the 90’s and 00’s. Limited Too was created by The Limited, INC. (“Tween Brands Inc.”). In 1996, it was turned into a tween store and skyrocketed. They had over 600 stores in 2007 at their peak. The store grew so rapidly and spread so quickly through the tween market that Tween Brands, INC. created Justice in 2004. Limited Too died with the fall of the market in 2009, when Justice, which targeted the same age group, took over and the stores merged (“Tween Brands Inc.”). Parents spend over $700 billion on their children, making this market a hot commodity for capitalist gains (Consuming Kids).
Most people thought Louis would amount to no more than your everyday beggar on the street. Already Louis had accomplished so muchLouis trained for the Olympics while at Southern California. He knew he wanted to be great, so he put fate in his own hands. Training vigorously, he made the Olympic cut. During the Olympics, he pushed himself harder than he ever thought possible, running a fifty eight second lap.
Because of Wilma Rudolph the idea of overcoming anything does not seem so far-fetched. Wilma Rudolph may have been an Olympic runner but one thing she was not able to run from was her problems. Being born into an African American family in the 1940’s was only the start to a life filled with hardships. Her family dealt with segregation that not only affected the way they were treated but also the type of medical attention they received. When Wilma was born prematurely, weighing only 4.5 pounds on June 23rd, 1940 she was not able to receive the proper medical attention she needed. She was turned away from the local hospital simply because the color of her skin. Although there was a local black doctor that would help take care of Wilma, her mother Blanche who was a maid and father Ed who was a railway porter, did not have enough money to pay the doctor. Wilma’s parents knew their daughter was extremely sick but with a family of twenty-two children it was hard for them to pay for anything. Wilma’s mother and family gave their best efforts to nurse her to health by themselves. Her life continued with one sickness after another. Wilma was never able to receive the proper medicine she needed to be healthy and it seemed she was always sick. Many of the sicknesses she overcame were not just the “common cold,” Wilma experienced whooping cough, measles, mumps and chicken pox. When Wilma was only four she contracted Poliomyelitis. This disease is also known as Polio. The polio not only weakened her body overall but she became more susceptible to illness. Not only was she fighting against the infantile paralysis virus but she had to overcome scarlet fever and double pneumonia. Soon, the polio spread down to Wilma’s left leg and foot, leaving...
Award-Winning author Laura Hillenbrand writes of the invigorating survival story of Louie Zamperini in her best selling book, Unbroken. Louie Zamperini was an ambitious, record-breaking Olympic runner when he was drafted into the American army as an airman during World War II. On the mission that led him to embark on a journey of dire straits, Louie’s plain crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving only him and two other crewmen as survivors. Stranded on a raft in shark infested waters, without any resources or food, and drifting toward enemy Japanese territory, the men now have to face their ultimate capture by Japanese, if they survive that long. Louie responded to his desperation with dexterity, undergoing his plight with optimism and confidence,
Wilma went to physical therapy with her mom two times a week at a black hospital. It was hard to get to because it was 50 miles away and Wilma and her mom had to take a bus to get there. Wilma’s family never stopped encouraging her to do her exercises to help her walk. Wilma’s teacher also encouraged her. She said “Don’t dream about it. Wilma, I want you to do it” (Schraff 18). Wilma’s teacher was teaching her to never give up. Wima remembered this for the rest of her life. When her coach put her on the bench she never gave up. On the bench she would study the game and winning plays. Then she started racing. After losing one race Wilma said “Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday” (Sherrow 24). Wilma realized that an important quality is being able to pick yourself up after a defeat. Wilma’s mother encouraged her to be a good runner in order to get a college scholarship. Later Wilma met the famous baseball player Jackie Robinson. He complimented her on her athletic abilities and said “Don’t let anything, or anybody, keep you from running“ (Sherrow 26). This meant a lot to her. She later wrote “For the first time in my life, I had a black person I could look up to as a real hero” (Sherrow 26). Jackie Robinson was Wilma’s first black