After reading the first pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” I can only imagine Jose Arcadio Buendia finding himself in trouble due to his stubbornness or perhaps him trading off his children in exchange for the Gypsies newest invention. The opening pages of the book entails how every year in March, Gypsies come into their village and show case inventions they found in their latest journey. So far, some of the inventions they have found were a magnet, a magnifying glass, an astrolabe, false teeth and Ice. Upon seeing these never before seen inventions, Jose Arcadio Buendia was determined to get ahold of these inventions no matter what the cost was, in one incident he even traded his dead father-in-law’s gold in…
“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.…
The longest serving first lady of the United states Eleanor Roosevelt had once said, “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken, the exceedingly clever Louis Zamperini embodied Roosevelt’s words when he survived World War II employing his own idea’s of his to stay alive and help his remaining crew return home.…
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.…
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.…
The U.S. Olympian three time gold medalists for U.S.A Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong”. In Laura Hillenbrand's nonfiction book Unbroken, Louis Zamperini demonstrated determination throughout his life to overcome difficulties in track all the way to surviving his Word War II bomber crashing into the Pacific Ocean where he was stranded for 47 day. Overall, Louis's own ambition is what Hillenbrand highlighted throughout this book to tell his truly remarkable story.…
Gail Devers a retired Olympic track star and a Hall of Fame inductee once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken, the ambitious Louis Zamperini brought Devers words to life over the course of his track career and his perilous time as a POW. In short, because of Louis Zamperini undying need to succeed no matter the challenge that he faced, Hillenbrand gave audiences this unforgettable story of survival.…
“Then he found himself thinking of something Pete once said: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain” (36). Louie Zamperini joined the Air Force during WWII and was assigned to search for survivors from a plane crash, but ended up crashing in the middle of the Pacific himself. Starving and deterred, Louie floated for a total of forty seven days and finally rafted into a Japanese boat where he was swept away into Japanese camps, some POW camps, some not. After a few years of being in the camps, the Americans won the war and Louie was sent back to America. In the book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini is best defined as a resilient and defiant person.…
The strength and endurance of the human spirit has never been better portrayed as it is in Tracy Kidder’s Strength in What Remains. Kidder’s telling of Deo’s story is an impressive one. Deo is a great example of a responsible steward. His stewardship is displayed in his fight for actual survival, his determination to become better educated, his love for his home and family, and his willingness to give back to a society that nearly killed him multiple times.…
He deals with so much, 39 days in a raft out at sea, the prison camps, and the nightmares, but he makes it through. He makes it through because he has the will to live. Now, I’m not going to say that you’re book has taught me not to complain about the little problems in our lives, because I think that would miss the point completely. I don’t think that the point of writing this book was to show us that our problems are meaningless, but to show us that when you commit to something, as Mr. Zamperini did to making it through the war, no one obstacle is big enough to deny you of what you desire. No quote could better emphasize this point than one by Louie himself “All I want to tell young people is that you are not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices”. You can’t succeed unless you know what you want, that’s what Louie learned when he decided to become an athlete. His commitment did have its benefits, like him become an olympian. This book has changed me like few others…
William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” carries a theme represented by a dying breed of that era, while using symbolism to represent tragedy, loneliness and some form of pride, the story also shows how far one will go to have the approval of others and the pursuit of happiness.…
Perseverance is shown in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. This book was written by Harper Lee and its setting is in Maycomb, Alabama during the late 1920’s. Atticus Finch is one of the main characters in this story and he shows a lot of perseverance. He is the only lawyer in this town and he was given a very tough case that had to do with a black man being accused of raping a white women. He decided to take this case knowing that they’ll find any piece of evidence to use it against who he was defending. Perseverance was shown here because he had much faith in the possibility that his client was innocent.…
The book so far is based around the story of an Italian boy named Louie Zampernini and his family. Louie’s father and mother moved from Italy and brought themselves up in a half-acre field with a one-room shack. “If it was edible, Louie stole it.” This is an idea brought up constantly in these chapters about Louie’s daring and witty attempts and successes at stealing, fighting, and causing most other kinds of mischief. The book also says that “Confident that he was clever, resourceful and bold enough to escape any predicament, he was almost incapable of discouragement. When history carried him into the war, this resilient optimism would define him.” A foreshadowing of the next part of the book when he is brought into the Army Air Corps. As someone interested in the armed forces I can identify with that last quote because there are many occasions when I have seen people bring with themselves their outstanding qualities into the military, this is something that I hope I can do with traits that will better me in service.…
“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.…
In literature, the theme of many stories about WWII is surviving while under brutal conditions. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, some US soldiers were stranded on a raft that could barely hold itself together. They had life threatening conditions like no food, water, or shelter that left only Louis Zaporelli to survive the sea.…