Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption follows the story of Louie Zamperini, a rebellious child who grew up to become one of the fastest runners of the 1930s. He competed as an Olympic track runner in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The future was looking bright for Zamperini before World War II began, which resulted in the Olympics being cancelled and Louie being drafted into the Army Air Forces as a bombardier. Midway through 1943, his B-24 crash landed in the Pacific Ocean. For weeks, Louie and two other men drifted westward across a seemingly endless ocean, accompanied by a pack of sharks and surviving on scraps of bird and fish meat and the occasional rainfall. Eventually, he arrived in Japanese…
In conclusion, people could look at her experience as a fiction or real. I feel like it is real because of how detailed she is making the canyon and all the events sound like she was actually there even if there is a chance she was not. I believe she was because she out on exact date and how she handled herself during the experience.…
The author, Deborah Rhodes, uses comparison and contrast throughout the whole article by describing women’s appearance to a certain occupation. Rhodes explains how an obese woman was rejected to become a bus driver because of her weight. This example shows how companies discriminate looks to safeguard their reputation. Another example is how a cocktail waitress went from a size 4 in her uniform to a size 6. When the company asked her to keep an “hourglass figure”, which has to refer to her height and weight.…
The verb “whimpering” and the use of the simile, “like a small animal caught and trapped”, makes the reader feel sympathetic for Nicole. We feel this as she is revealed to be very vulnerable – shown with the adjective “small” – and helpless at the hands of Larry, demonstrated with the word “trapped”. This also represents the juxtaposition of power as Larry is now seen as the ‘predator’ in relation to Nicole, linking to the theme of authority.…
The novel Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, is about the challenging life of Louie Zamperini. Louie is a boy who grew up only knowing how to be in trouble, as in stealing and fighting daily. With the help of his older brother, Pete, Louie tries to clean up his act and gets involved with the school track team. Louie grows up to become an Olympic runner, but his dreams at the gold metal fall short when he is drafted to serve the country. Louie then becomes a bombardier in the Air Corps. The author, Hillenbrand, wrote the novel with great detail to educate about what was happening in the novel and to keep one attached while reading.…
Louie had a chance to beat a Japanese runner in a race. He knew that it would make the other captives feel joy and happiness for a while. Secondly, , Miné felt that she needed to do something other than to sit there all day so she used her talent and did something creative. “...…
Kindred tells the story of a 1970s African American woman traveling through time to an 1815 slave plantation. The author, Octavia Butler, portrays how the main character, Dana, uses resistance to survive in both time periods. She uses Dana to address the social and cultural issues of the Antebellum South and post-Civil Rights Movement. As African American woman, Butler was subjected to racism and oppression in her life, and translated her experiences into Dana’s character. The setting switches back and forth between both times as Dana narrates, painting a picture of slavery through her eyes better than any factual essay or lecture about the topic…
1. In the reading Beyond Backlash Ruth Rosen discusses that when succeeding in women activism…
Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, is a touching, sensitive novel that deals with healing and moving on from a tragedy or a difficult situation. It uniquely tells the stories of two different people and their personal situations from chapter to chapter, and how each person recovers from his/her problems. The reader is taken into their lives to share and sympathize with their misunderstandings, their pain, and their ultimate healing.…
The authors explained to readers that God intended for sex to be enjoyed mutually within a marriage between a man and a woman and that sex can make or break a marriage. According to (Penner & Penner, 2003),…
In the story “Slower than Rest” by Cynthia Rylant, a boy named Leo was called slower than the rest by everyone, in school, and even his own father called him slow, this hurt Leo and he even he started to think that it was true and thought about himself like that too it has a damaging effect on Leo. (pg 2) one day while on the road, Leo found a turtle on the side of the road and he got to keep it, he brought it home and kept it as a pet, he named it Charlie and he became his best friend, since Charlie was slower than the rest, just like Leo, so Leo felt like he had some one that was like him. Towards the end of the story Leo Brings Charlie to school for a presentation about forest fires, everyone loves it and he wins an award and he proves…
“Your accomplishing day and weeks what it takes normal people to do in a lifetime” said Miss Kinnian (Keyes). During Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon is the main character he is a thirty year old man trying to learn how to read and write again, as is his buddy Algernon the mouse. Charlie is doing the experiment with him to see how it will go at to get his test score up. He is also trying to accomplish so much even though his brain will not mentally let him, this is because he is main goal is to become like everyone else. In the story Charlie is realizing that becoming smart is meaning losing some of his friends and family.…
The book, Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community, and the film, Salt of the Earth, both relay to their audience, the pursuit of happiness within the Chicano community in which they live. These works aim to show how Mexican-American immigrants fight to keep both their honor and value systems alive in the United States of America, a country which is foreign to their traditions. The Mexican-Americans encountered in these works fight for their culture of honor in order to define themselves in their new homeland, a homeland which honors the American dream of successful capitalism.…
Leo. I'm sorry people worried, I am, but that's not something I can take responsibility for? (Page 11)…
Due to being subjected to this Charlie is forced to grow and step out of his comfort zone to take on the challenges and obstacles set before him throughout the course of the story. An…