“Without dignity, identity is erased.” pg.182-183 In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand the role of digintity is a leading factor in the story of Louie Zamperini. Louie Zamperini started his journey as an Olympic athlete, who survived a plane crash, and became a POW for the Japanese. Throughout the entire novel, the way that Louie saw the world changed as his journey continued. Louie started as a young trouble boy, who then became into a man who was an airman during World War 2. During his POW experience many challenges came in the way, one of them being Mutsuhiro Watanabe also known as the Bird. The Bird was a Japanese corporal who ended up in the Omori Camp.During Louie’s experience at Omori with the Bird became his worst challenge and enemy since the Bird wanted to make Louie’s life a nightmare. The Bird tortured Louie for different reasons but that it never broke Louie. Louie always had stayed true to himself and had hope that one day war would end and so would the torture. …show more content…
People who have experienced trauma go to therapy in hope that they will recover will others don’t receive help which later on leads them to further consequences. After Louie Zamperini came back from war, he started to create a drinking problem. Zamperini tried to drink his problems away but at the end of the day all it caused was pain to all the ones he loved.“Huge numbers of men escaped by drinking” (pg.355). Many people coming from war have many ways in coping all that they went through, but drinking away their problems was a number one problem. Drinking became a problem since it lead them being more aggressive and