Analysis A year after his death‚ the world is still in awe of Louie Zamperini for his free spirit and determination. Growing up‚ Louie was constantly in trouble with the police for stealing and tainting liquor. Louie’s older brother Pete helped him stay out of trouble by occupying him with running. Grit and perseverance made Louie a local celebrity‚ then a college record smasher‚ and h even an Olympic athlete. While competing at the Olympics‚ Louie became injured. Instead of giving up‚ he persevered
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The Reality of Downtime We all worry about what is best for our children. This is no different for Anna Quindlen. Quindlen writes children’s books‚ novels‚ and is best known for her non-fiction work on current events and life. “Doing Nothing Is Something‚” is an article she wrote in 2002 for Newsweek about children not receiving enough downtime. She explains that our children are over scheduled and they don’t have enough time to be “bored” and reflect on life. Over a decade later I feel this statement
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us; it is what we can transform our flaws into that defines us. In two very similar stories this exact idea is conveyed. The Odyssey by Homer illustrates Odysseus’s difficult journey of his return from the Trojan war. Similar to this‚ Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand describes Louie’s everlasting quest of survival. Although some may consider these two characters heroes‚ they both have fatal flaws. Louie possesses qualities of stubbornness‚ while Odysseus is very arrogant. In the end‚ it turns out
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Young Louie Zamperini was by definition‚ a trouble maker. Making messes‚ stealing food and causing mischief in Torrance‚ California since he was a little boy but was always able to run surprisingly fast away for pursuers. Louie was known for starting trouble but those days built him into an intelligent clever man that could always find himself out of trouble. Louie looked up to his older brother Pete and wanted to be exactly like him. However‚ his family never gave up on him during his trouble maker
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I believe Station Eleven will always be favored by most people‚ but it will never be someone’s favorite novel. Personally‚ my three favorite books include Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom‚ The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls‚ and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I have just realized all the books mentioned are non-fiction texts. Anyway‚ I enjoy Albom’s memoir because I gained an abundant amount of knowledge and life lessons after reading it. The memoir was emotional‚ I might have cried three times
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A Man Named Louie Ever since he was a little boy‚ Louie was a very resilient person‚ his stubbornness and willpower played a great role in his survival later on in life. Louie had been a trouble maker pretty much his entire existence. From the age of two‚ when he descended down one story out of his bedroom window and took off in a naked blur across town‚ to when he tried stealing a Nazi Party Flag at the age of 19 on his trip to the 1936 Olympics. Louie was always the person that did his own thing
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Summer Reading Assignment: Newspaper Unbroken By: Laura Hillenbrand The Torrance Gazette “The Torrance Tornado‚” Now “the Torrance Olympian” On a sweltering day in July‚ our hometown hero represented Torrance in Olympic fashion. Louie Zamperini attempted his bid at a spot on the US Olympic team yesterday during the grueling 5000m race at the Olympic Trials. For those of you who do not know‚ this distance is unfamiliar territory for Louie‚ but he felt that his chances of winning a spot were
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hours for personal interests. We all read more that week than we had read during the six months before. We read a lot of books such as Obama’s biography‚ “Dreams from my father” by Barack Obama‚ “Heaven is for real” by Tomas Nelson‚ and “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand. Before we lived without television‚ we watched some dramas instead of novels and we watched cartoons such as family guy instead of cultural books. Through we read books we could have discussions about books that we had read. We each also
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next week the role was reversed‚ the blue eyed children were now smarter and better than the brown eyed children. By the end of the experiment‚ the children learned how it felt to be ostracized by people based on how much melanin they possessed. In Unbroken‚ the Japanese soldiers were filled with prejudice towards the
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“Without dignity‚ identity is erased. In its absence‚ men are defined not by themselves‚ but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.” This quote is from the protagonist ‚Louie Zamperini‚ in the book “Unbroken”‚ by Laura Hillenbrand‚ replicates how precisely Holden views the world. Throughout the storyline of the “Catcher in the Rye‚” by JD Salinger‚ a seventeen year old boy named Holden has a different perspective on everyone he meets. Everyone Holden meets he thinks
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