unbroken Chapters 1 + 2 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
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treatment of prisoners of war. During WW2 about 8‚600 Australians
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soldiers would beat the women up for fun‚ she says “women sobbing for their husbands and the Japs’d come round and beat us for fun…useless mouths they’d call us” this particular quote enables the audience to understand just how hard and horrible being a prisoner of war must have been. Both authors use symbols or objects to represent certain achievements such as friendship as well as to trigger ephanies or realizations. For example John Misto uses the
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“Chains is a novel all about people breaking free of their chains” ‘Chains’ is a novel about people breaking free of their chains in many different ways. However are these people actually breaking free because the slaves will always be slaves; wherever they go. Many people in this novel are chained; for example Isabel (the main character) is chained because she is a slave‚ Lady Seymour is chained because she is paralysed and Old Ben is chained because he is also a slave. But when they have ‘broken
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The story from my family is about my great uncle‚ William Douglas Brewer‚ who survived being torpedoed in the Mediterranean by German pilots. During WWII‚ he was in the Navy serving on the U.S.S. Lansdale as a rank of E5. When the U.S.S. Lansdale sank having a life preserver is what kept him alive until the Coast Guard could get the survivors. His time spent floating in the ocean is what made him change his life. To make this story go more in depth‚ the research questions will help this process
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overcoming challenge and reinventing himself from his lowest point‚ Hurley is able to find success which lead to an ultimately more joyful life. Conversely‚ Richard Flanagan explores a different outcome in ‘Narrow Road.’ Throughout his time as a prisoner of war on the Burma railway‚ Dorrigo Evans faces the challenge of survival with the hope of returning home and secretly rekindling his romance with Amy. However‚ when he successfully returns he believes that Amy is now dead and enters an unhappy
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an example of historical fiction‚ set in Arkansas‚ America during World War 2. It tells the story of 12 year old Patty‚ a Jewish girl‚ who shelters a young German soldier who escapes from the camp for German prisoners in her hometown. The story opens with the arrival of the German prisoners of war at the train station. From the first chapters we find out about the daily routine of Patty and her family. The reader learns important information about the setting and the characters which explains their
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imprisoned on Robben Island‚ where he remained for the next eighteen of his twenty-seven years in prison. Here he was forced into hard labor in a lime quarry under grueling conditions. The prison itself was Spartan and basic with black political prisoners receiving the fewest privileges of all. Most would crumble under pressure and hardship like this‚ but Nelson Mandela survived. Not just due to his strength of will but also because he is blue. The ability to remain isolated and to withdraw energy
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WW II Torture tactics Some of the World war II torture tactics may have been the cruelest of all time. Stories from prisoners of war are horrifying‚ an example of one by Ian Cobain is‚ The German SS officer was fighting to save himself from the gallows for a terrible war crime and might say anything to escape the noose. But Fritz Knöchlein was not lying in 1946 when he claimed that‚ in captivity in London‚ he had been tortured by British soldiers to force a confession out of him Torturing them in
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As the German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein once said‚ “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken‚ the determined Louis Zamperini personified Einstein’s words when‚ against all odds‚ he survived his World War II bomber crashing into the salty Pacific‚ voyaging over 2‚000 miles on the plane’s safety raft. Determined to survive and find a way to get his war buddy’s home safely‚ Louie never gave up hope. In the beginning of
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