“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” (Hillenbrand p.34) Louie Zamperini was a young and rising track star. He was dreaming about the Olympics,but that didn’t go as planned. It is 1943 in May Louie Zamperini’s plane had crashed in the pacific ocean during WW||. Ahead was thousands of miles of ocean with attacking sharks,thirst,and starvation/. He was caught by someone not very pleasant. But do it go away? Find out by reading unbroken By:Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken has 298 fascinating pages that is a biography written in third [erso. Unbroken is about Louie’s interesting and sacrificing life.…
Believe it or not, 2,403 Americans died in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Louie Zamperini was lucky to not be one of those people. Floating on a raft in the sea for forty-seven days; Captured and tortured in POW camps; Louie Zamperini endured all these examples of trauma beyond belief and lived to tell the story. The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand best describes Louie Zamperini’s life, and the nightmare he went through shows how he stayed Hopeful and mentally strong.…
Throughout Laura Hillenbrand’s biography, Unbroken, we hear the cunning story of a World War II captive and his road to freedom. I could go into detail about the entire biography, the war, the POW camp, his struggles to get over alcoholism and PTSD, but I think one of his largest conflicts came early on in his life. Louis Zamperini grew up in Torrance, CA. He was a fairly normal child with two parents, a brother, and two sisters. He was active and enjoyed playing with his brother, Pete. As he entered his teenage years it all started to change. Louie became aggressive and angry. He grew distant from his brother and started to beat up kids for no reason. His father had taught him self defense and he found he was so good at it. He became haughty…
Adversity can bring out the positive and negative sides in a person. In “The Proof of Worth,” Edgar Albert Guest demonstrates how challenges in life can help someone understand what he or she is capable of during a hardship. Similarly, “The Importance of Adversity in Growth and Development” written by Patrick Kohan exemplifies how children will never learn how to conquer an obstacle if they are always given assistance. Furthermore, Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, Unbroken, indicates that experiencing problems can affect the way a person’s body reacts and thinks about a difficult moment. Ultimately, the authors highlight that obstacles can be a complex or helpful task, as well as benefit people in the future when they need to know their true talents.…
Throughout life there will be hard times to test man. Sometimes man goes through troubles that will test them. In Black Boy, Richard Wright suggests that in one’s life there will be struggles that need to be dealt with to achieve their dreams.…
In life when it comes to hard times, perseverance is key. Without perseverance, people in a…
In the book it reveals that even in the darkest times there is always hope or light.…
This book was very moving. I liked the fact that it was a true story and included many…
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).…
Reading involves translating symbols and letters into words or sentences. Anderson defines reading as a process of constructing meaning from a written text. We indulge in reading for many different purposes, be it survival, leisure or occupational. In a way, reading serves as a kind communication between the writer and the reader. The writer encodes what he or she wishes to convey while the reader decodes according to his or her own perception. Johnson quotes "A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge."…
These are the life lessons that I have learned throughout my years. I have had my bad moments, the moments where I just want to lose hope, the moments when you realize that people do always leave but some might come back. Life kicks you down sometimes, it can really beat you up but at the end of the day you are a survivor and what you do does matter. Realize now that when life comes swinging you have to fight back and get through it because you are. All the anger and pain you feel; that’s life. All the scars, broken hearts, fear of not being enough is there to remind you that through all of that pain, something beautiful and great is waiting for you and that something is worth fighting…
Reading is something people can not live with out it. All heavenly religions call for reading. Reading widens our horizons. It keeps our minds quite open. . Reading has a lot of advantages. First, it enriches our vocabulary. The more you read the more new words you know with that way you improves your conversation skills by knowing the current language. Besides, when you read literature or fiction, it develops your mental thinking. However; many people do not know how to read efficiently. You will make good use of reading if you following the following steps.…
Reading is important because helps us to enhance our imagination. It furthermore enables people to develop analytical as well as comprehension and communication skills through interpreting written word.…
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Nothing in this world comes easily, least of all, success. Take the example of Abraham Lincoln who worked hard, without ever getting disappointed of his countless failures, from the age of 21 till the age of 52, when he went on…