Unbroken By Og Mandino

The American author Og Mandino was accredited to saying, “ Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken, the determined Louis Zamperini defined these words when he defied all logical expectations and survived a plane crash which stranded him sea for many days. In fact, Hillenbrand focused on Louie’s determination to orchestrate his true story of survival.

The beginning of this book portrayed Louie as a delinquent child and for the most part he earned this title. Thankfully, hiding in him like a diamond in the rough, Louie possessed a greater quality was a characteristic that was seldom noticed: This truly vital characteristic was his determination.
He was placed as a member of the bomber named super man. This plane was destroyed with the new one being nicknamed the Green Hornet. The men of the Green Hornet soon found themselves adrift in the sea with no idea of what to do next. Only three survivors severely limited their options. They had to battle one of the hardest things to battle on Earth, the sea itself. However when their bodies were declining they kept their minds incredibly sharp. Showing determination in both Louie and Phil: “Louie found that the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge” (173). Life as a POW under the Japanese is one of the toughest and cruelest situations in likely the entire world's history. It emotionally and physically scarred thousands upon thousands of prisoners. Many didn’t make it out alive because they were so physically beaten or scared out of their minds do to the emotional trauma. Those who resisted were beat even more and often had less rations to eat. Louie was among those who decided to resist the Japanese due to his well-known determination: “Though their resistance was dangerous dignity was preserved and with it life itself”