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A Literary Analysis Of Unbroken, By Louis Zamperini

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Unbroken shows you no matter what happens in life to never give up, keep fighting. This book is about a boy named Louis Zamperini who gets into a lot of trouble as a kid, but later on in, life he begins to run track and ends up breaking records and eventually he goes to the Olympics. After the Olympics, Louis joins the Air Force, while in combat there plane got shot down and they crashed in the ocean. After the crash, they were stranded in the middle of the ocean for 47 days starving with very limited food and on the 47th day the Japanese captured them and brought them to a prisoner of war camp. After getting beaten and abused in the camp the war eventually ended and they got home safely. Unbroken is an amazing book because the author Laura …show more content…

The reasoning behind why I believe he is very determined is because, Louis was always waiting for his next task and ready to tackle anything in his way. When his plane crashed on the landing strip he was determined to get to their new plane and take off right away because Louis never likes anything holding him back. Also when their plane crashed in the water, and they were stranded in the middle of the ocean Louis always had a positive attitude and was determined to make sure his group stayed alive and got out safely. Some ways he helped the team out while they were stranded were, being on the lookout for anyone or anything, catching fish and birds to eat, and also Louis always had a positive attitude that they would make it out alive. On the other hand, Louis is also an extremely fast runner. Ever since his youth Louis was extremely fast he would run from store owners after he stole, houses after stealing from them and also from the police. Later on in life Louis decided to change, and quit stealing from people and he knew he had talent in running so he then decided to join track. Louise's track career was insane, pretty much every race he would run he broke records. His fastest high school mile time was a (4:21.2), and his fastest college mile time was a (4:08.3). When Louis was 19 years old, he qualified for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The event he qualified for was the 5,000 meter run, which is 3.2 miles. Louise's time in the Olympics was a (14:46.8), and he set a final lap record of (56 seconds) and takes 8th place in the Olympics. From reading all of his racing times it truly shows that Louis is an extremely fast

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