Book Report On Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

People say that a person’s past depicts their future. The good times can make a person optimistic in future times of worry or sadness. The bad times can make a person stronger or grateful of what they have no matter how little in future bad times. This can be seen by Louie Zamperini in the novel Unbroken. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, follows the life of Louie Zamperini during his career as an olympic runner and also as a prisoner of war during World War II. In the novel, Louie Zamperini experiences times of unhappiness based on his environment but in the end it makes him a better person. Some of the most emotionally draining environments experienced in life inevitably make people better people.
The harshest environments experienced end

Growing up Louie has a good relationship with his parents-Louise and Anthony, and his siblings-Pete, Sylvia, and Virginia. Although when he has a good relationship with them growing up he tends to put some of them on the side and he forgets the significance that they have in his life. Later on in his life when he enlists in the air force, he is involved in a plane crash that leaves most of his crew dead except Phil the pilot and Mac the tail gunner along with himself. They are stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on two emergency rafts with little food and water. At one point, all of the food was gone. Louie tells them his mother’s recipes to attempt to salvage the hunger that they were all feeling. As “Louie began describing the dish, and all three men found it satisfying, so Louie kept going, telling them about each dish in the greatest possible detail. Soon Louise’s kitchen floated there with them:..”(Hillenbrand 153). By Louie telling the recipies to the Phil and Mac, not only does it “satisfy the men’s hunger”, it also provides Louie with a sentimental memory of his mother and how much of an impact that she has on his life. It makes Louie think on all of the good times he had spent with his mother up until this point, which causes him to feel that there is a void in his heart where the love and the appreciation of his family would be. This overall shows how dependant he is on his mom. Louie remembers how much his mom means to him and how grateful he is for her when they finally reconnect. After 47 days on the raft, they finally reach land where they are taken by the Japanese as prisoners of war. After 2 years on constant torture he was finally able to go home to his family. When he finally arrived in the United states, “The moment the plane stopped, Louie jumped down, ran to his sobbing mother, and folded himself around her. ‘Cara