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Book Report On Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

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Throughout history there have been multiple life changing events that have lead to many life lessons. As humans, we are far from perfect; we must go through challenges to learn and prosper. We often follow the example of others, when sometimes you need to take a stand and follow yourself. Leadership is a huge role to humans, especially in the sake of treatment for others. Throughout the book, Unbroken, by: Laura Hillenbrand, it showed great deals of men mistreating others for inhuman reasons. Louie, a POW (People Of War) along with hundreds of others were mistreated greatly by the guards in the concentration camps. This is a situation that we must understand why the guards treated the POWs so badly. This time period was the start of planes. …show more content…

“His bed was a straw mat with three paper sheets. The window had no glass, the walls were particleboard, the ceiling made of tar paper. With winter approaching Louie would be living in a building that was barely a windbreak”(Pg.147). They were lucky if they had one meal a day to scrape off the floors covered in roaches, dirt and absolute filth. Throughout all of the insanity there was one Guard who had a moral mindset, his name was Kawamura. Kawamura tried to make Louie feel at peace as much was possible. Soon after Kawamura became friends with Louie, members of a submarine crew came and attacked both Louie and Phil. They subjected them to medical experiments that were illegal due to chemical warfare. The so-called doctors injected an unknown substance into their arms. The injection made their bodies feel as if they were let in lava. “They were taken to the front porch of the interrogation building, where men in medical coats awaited them. Japanese gathered to watch. Louie and Phil were ordered to lie down. The doctors pulled out two long hypodermic syringes and filled each with a murky solution. The doctors slid the needles into the captives’ arms and pushed more solution in, within a few seconds Louie saw the room start to

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In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie is tortured by being dehumanized and isolated while being a POW. Throughout the book, Louie is being treated poorly by his captors, but resisted giving up. One example is in chapter 17, Louie was being transported to a camp and is put on the ground. The text states, “Louie said something to Phil and immediately felt a boot kick into him...” (page 181).

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He decided to visit his captors for closure rather than revenge. “Louie had been told that all of the men who had tormented him had been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned here in Sugamo. He could speak about and think of his captors, even the Bird, without bitterness, but a question tapped at the back of his mind. If he should ever see them again, would the peace that he had found prove resilient?” (Hillenbrand 385).

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Louies family was thrilled to see him. To Louies family it seemed as if he carried very little emotion from being in the prison camps. Hillenbrand wrote, “They spoke easily, as they always had. No one asked about prison camp. Louie volunteered a little about it, and to everyone’s relief, it seemed to carry little emotion for him”(342).

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