Unbroken Essay

Unbroken Essay Unbroken is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is about Louie Zamperini, an Italian American that lives in Torrance, California, soon to be an Olympic miler and bombardier of the air force. He was born in January 26, 1917, at 5 years old, Louie would smoke cigarettes while walking to kindergarten, and at 8 years old he would start drinking. He had a very troublesome childhood; he would steal around his neighborhood and would eat anything that was edible. He would be bullied because he was a small kid then his dad taught him how to fight so, then he started picking fights but he always admired his older brother Pete. One day when Louie was caught sneaking people in to a basketball game by using his home key (he found out there’s a 1/50 chance of a fitting a key to any lock), was later almost suspended by the principal and was no longer able to participate in any sport or school activity. Pete begged to the principle to let Louie participate in a sport in which later Pete convinced Louie to join track and found out he was good at running but Louie didn’t like running so, he did it for the applause. Pete started coaching Louie and he commenced to break records and earned the nickname “Torrance Tornado”. Louie participated in an Olympic 5000 qualifier and lost but despite the loss he got invited to the final of the Olympic in NY. He was able to compete in the berlin Olympics of 1936 even though he placed in 2nd place in the finals “in a finish so close, Louie later said, ‘you couldn’t put a hair between us”. When missing 7th place he impresses the audience and meets Hitler who says, “Ah, you're the boy with the fast finish”. What was so impressive was his last lap which broke record “his final time, 14:46.8, was by far the fastest 5000 run by any American in 1936, almost 12 seconds faster than Lash’s best for the year”. Louie got in trouble with the Nazi’s when