Analytical Essay On Unbroken

“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”(Rick Warren). Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, is about an Olympic runner named Louis Zamperini who faces danger as a POW. The main antagonist is his troubles with the Bird, as known as Mutsuhiro Watanabe. Overtime, Louie uses his past as a way to survive his future. IN every moment of despair that Louie should have as a POW, Laura Hillenbrand shows how he holds on to hope and struggles to survive. From boyhood to adulthood, Louie had many moments that should have left him in despair. Many times he has left his home, but has always come back. “He remembered the money in his fathers hands, the fear in his mothers eyes as she offered him a sandwich. He stood up and went home” (Hillenbrand 16). “In Europe, Hitler was laying plans to conquer the continent” (Hillenbrand 45). Louie should have been scared and lost hope but he still stayed strong. He later went into the war anyways and became lost at sea, still holding on to hope. “When the plane hit, he was thrown forward, his head striking something” (Hillenbrand 126). When faced with a great amount of force, hold on to hope and believe you will be saved. As a young boy Louie was always running away, scared
When adrift in the ocean, Louie and Phil had believed they were never going to be rescued, until they were spotted. “The weekend men couldn’t row fast enough to escape. They gave up and stopped” (Hillenbrand 178). After being treated and cared for, the men were taken to a few atolls, and the last atoll Louie went to was Omari, where Louie (and everyone else) found hope. “From the sky came an immense shivering sound…There, so high that they appeared to be gleaming slits in the sky, were acres and acres of B-29’s” (Hillenbrand