Book Report On Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken is a nonfiction novel written by Laura Hillenbrand. It recounts the remarkable World War 2 survival story of Louis Zamperini. It is set in Louie’s lifespan, 1917-2014, but most of the book is set during wartime in either Japan POW camps or in a raft on the open ocean. The main character of Unbroken is Louis Zamperini, called Louie throughout most of the story. The book spans his entire life, but a large portion is set in Louie’s twenties, while he is fighting in the war. He is a troublemaker as a young boy, and despite him becoming less of one as he grows older; he still enjoys things like playing practical jokes. He tries to be very cheerful, even when things get extremely difficult. Louie is described as attractive and slightly

His brother Pete becomes his best friend for a time, and keeps Louie from getting in trouble by pushing him to run. Louie’s mother, Louise, works hard but is young at heart. Louie meets his friend Russell Allen “Phil” Phillips while he’s in the military, and the two hit it off right away, together through many trials. They helped each other through hard times and are always together up until they arrive at a POW camp. Francis McNamara is a crewmember when Louie crashes over the ocean, and later dies on the raft. Bill Harris a man befriended by Louie when they are in a Japanese POW camp together. Harris is damaged mentally from beatings by a guard nicknamed “The Quack” but eventually recovers. In one of the camps, Louie’s enemy becomes one of the guards, Mutsuhiro “The Bird” Watanabe. He beats the prisoners, especially Louie, once making him hold an extremely heavy wooden beam above his head for over 30 minutes. When Louie gets back from the war, he meets a woman Named Cynthia Applewhite and they fall in love. She later saves his

Louie is a troublemaker, but is saved by his brother, who forces him to take up running. He soon makes it his life and works so hard at it that he makes it to the Olympics, right before the war starts. Once the war starts, Louie enlists in the United States Army Air Corps. He first flies a bomber named Super Man. At first he is successful, having fun and making friends like Phil. However, Superman is soon destroyed and Phil and Louie are put on a mission on a different bomber called the Green Hornet, which crashes, leaving eight of the eleven men on board dead, and the remaining three stranded on a life raft. These men are Louie, Phil, and Mac. They are stranded on the life raft for 47 days, and Mac dies while they are on the open ocean. They are rescued by the Japanese and taken to a POW