Brief Summary Of The Book 'Unbroken' By Louie Zamperini

Unbroken is about Louie Zamperini, an olympian who has to join to join the army and fight in world war 2. Louie later gets captured by the Japanese and gets abused in the POW camps for two and a half years. This book is broken into five parts and the part one is about Louie early childhood. “At five, he started smoking, picking up cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten.” Louie childhood was rough, he was know for making trouble and always getting in fights with his bullies. Louie was the middle child and his mother loved Louie’s older brother Pete so this fueled Louie’s anger even more. Louie always got compared to Pete and Louie hated that. “Pete had big plans for Louie.” Pete saw the potential in Louie, he was the first one to believe
Louise post war life was both amazing and horrible. He was happy to see his family and all his friends but he also fell in love with Cynthia and then he married her only a couple weeks after they met. “Later in his last lap, there was an abrupt slicing sensation in his ankle. he half hopped to the line and collapsed. A doctor confirmed he’d worsened his war injury disastrously. It was all over.” I felt really bad for Louie because this injury ended his running career and now he wasn’t able to compete in the olympics. Louie was so distressed that he became an alcoholic, he also became abusive with his wife. “Post War life was often tormented. Men sleepwalked, acting out prison camp traumas, and woke screaming or lashing out.” This must of been terrifying for the family members of these soldiers. Many probably attempted suicide or try to kill other people. When Louie started strangling Cynthia thinking it was The Bird in his dream I was sure that Cynthia would immediately divorce Louie but she stayed with him. That took courage from her. I really enjoyed reading this book, I couldn’t put it down. Everytime I said I was done reading for the day, I just couldn’t