What Is The Quality Of Life By Loiue Zamperini Essay

I hold a soft place in my heart for biographies, due to the fact that the truth is often more interesting that the human mind can make up. Telling the story of a man's life is beyond difficult. Telling the story of an olympian and a prisoner of war during world war two, and doing it well, to me that seems near impossible. Part of how fascinating this book is must be attributed Loiue Zamperini himself and his tremendous life, but you fail to give yourself enough credit for making sure the reader feels all the emotions that Mr. Zamperini feels, you do that through your meticulous research. During reading about the brutality that the POWs faced your heart sinks. You are inspired by the fact that the POW’s try to maintain dignity through regular acts of disobedience. As
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