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Short Essay On Unbroken By Laura Hillenberg

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Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head. Don’t lose focus.” In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenberg, Louie Zamperini was an olympic track star who later on in his life decided to go into the war to serve his country. Louie truly was a patriotic man, representing his country as an olympian and then later on in his life heading off to this war, this unknown land. Louie ended up at a POW camp where he fought for his life every single day. Louie gets hit in the face by life many times, by persevering through these life altering crisis, he has a positive impact on society. Louie started in the olympics but made a life changing decision to head to war. War is something that a lot of people would not be able to handle, their is …show more content…

The camps he was in were terrible, it was said that around 60 Australians cremated remains and that 1 in 5 of them died total at this camp from the years 1943-1944 (283). Louie had to live in these camps for long amounts of time, little food, many beatings, and lots of work. He fought, he fought everyday for his life, to make things worse, the camp leader, the Bird targeted Louie the most. The Bird was explained by one man as a “psychopath” (238). The most unimaginable things happen to Louie, but his grit got him through the tough times even with a leader whose job was to torture him, hate him the most, Louie kept …show more content…

Louie went through hell and back but never gave up. So many life changing crisis’s are all used for good by Louie making it out alive and this story being told. This story is apart of history and is incredibly good for the nation. It teaches about war and how horrific it is. This can help people fight for peace so things like this never happen again. Louie would’ve rathered killed himself then go through that experience and come out alive (321). This quote speaks in volumes. Not only does it teach us of war, but it teaches us to forgive. Louie had said about the Bird once he had passed, “That night, the sense of shame and powerlessness that had driven his need to hate the Bird had vanished” (386). Even though he didn’t directly forgive him, his heart changed, it was lifted, and their was a sense of forgiveness. If Louie can let that pain go of a man so cruel it should teach us we can

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