Unbroken Chapter 8 Summary

Chapter eight of Unbroken goes from describing the risks of flying in combat to describing the reality of death and how the men attempted to cope with that. In this quote, the narrator makes a point to highlight that each death was not only a number, but an actual person. The narrator offers insight into how extreme the circumstances were during war and how many real people died—people who were once friends and family. This quote is significant, because, while so many people died during the war, this quote reflects on the individuality of each person. These were actual human souls who died, not just “numbers on a page”. While “a quarter of a barracks was lost at once”, the rest of the men who were alive had to find a way to deal with such losses.