Louie Zamperini was a rebellious and courageous man throughout the years of his life. He was a olympic runner and came in first for fastest time in high school and later went the olympics to race against other cities. He was in a POW camp for 2 years and was beaten by a mean man named Mutsuhiro Watanabe. And Louie Zamperini was born in Olean New York and later moved to Torrance California. Louie Zamperini shows two characteristic traits of rebellious and courageous throughout the book Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
“History is not just what happened in the past. It is what later generations choose to remember” (Ulrich 667). These words are extracted from an essay that can be found in the journal article written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich titled, Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735. Ulrich never expected such a phrase to arise in the way that it did, which surprised her tremendously. A quick web search for the slogan, “well behaved women seldom (or rarely) make history” resulted in hundreds of pictures and links to online stores where individuals can purchase articles of clothing, such as t-shirts and sweatshirts, bumper stickers, and posters containing the slogan.
Adventurous and dangerous, Louie Zamperini’s life was one that many will never forget. Louie’s childhood wasn’t very great, he would get into lots of trouble from fights and running from the police. When Louie’s brother Pete heard about everything that Louie was doing, so he decided to get Louie into running track, and soon enough Louie would win every race he was in. Then at the age of 19 he qualified for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Louie then went into the military and then he had been captured by the Japs.
The novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand stands as a biography that captures the real-life experiences of Louie Zamperini, a man who went from living as a troubled boy, to an impeccable runner, and then into a United States soldier. This novel defines the definition of survival. Not only has it sold millions of copies, but is read in many high schools across the world, and became a huge major motion picture. In the book, there is a character who is very close to Louie named Allen Russell Phillips, or better now as Phil. From the beginning of the story and until the end, Phil has changed dramatically.
“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, forgiveness. Forgive everybody” -Maya Angelou(). Louie Zamperini, the main character in the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, evolves throughout the story and resolves with this idea of forgiveness. Louie faces challenges that range from his stealing tendencies as a young boy to surviving a plane crash during WWII, as well as becoming a POW.When he is rescued Louie isn’t the same man that he was before the war, but he goes through an evolution to become even better than when he started.
In the novel Copper Sun by Sharon Draper, Polly is an indentured servant who wants to escape her class and Amari is a slave who has had her family ripped away from her. Polly grows from a narrow-minded young woman who looks down on slaves into a more tolerant young woman, likewise, Amari grows from a naïve young woman who does not trust her instincts into one who is wise beyond her years. Throughout the novel, Polly grows from a narrow-minded young woman who is disdainful of slaves because of how she was raised, because they prevent her from getting a job, and because they seem less intelligent than she into a more tolerant young woman who understands that slaves are the same as she is on the inside. Polly was raised to see herself as being above slaves and closer to her rich employers than the other indentured servants and slaves that she lived with: as her father told her, “the company you keep will rub off on you, Polly girl.
Walter Anderson, an American painter and writer once said, “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quantity of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, describes how Louie Zamperini’s intelligence helped him through many hardships while stranded at sea and in the POW camps during World War II. Remarkably, Louie’s critical thinking skills kept him alive and well during times when he thought his life was over. Described as a delinquent at the beginning of his life, Louie spent most of his time stealing items from people’s’
She writes about the trouble she went threw with her husband having to succeed hi father. This was one of the main struggles of the book.
“The writers, I do believe, who get the best and most lasting response from readers are the writers who offer a happy ending through moral development. By a happy ending, I do not mean mere fortunate events: a marriage, or a last-minute rescue from death; but some kind of spiritual reassessment or moral reconciliation, even with the self, even at death.” – Fay Weldon Imagine one Janie Crawford, back in Eatonville, once again under the watchful eye of the jealous townspeople, scrutinized and harshly judged. Janie has been in this situation before, a long time ago, but what is different this time? The difference, among many others, is that Janie has taken a look at her core values, her goals, and her aspirations, and changed her outlook on life.
“It’s not normal. It’s not normal to feel like this.” These words will never leave the mind of Madison Holleran’s sister. Because just a few weeks after Madison uttered them over Christmas break 2013, she leapt off a nine-story garage deck in Philadelphia, killing herself. Holleran, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, had gone from a superstar high school athlete and academic at her Pennsylvania high school to running track at Penn, an Ivy League school.
Among many characteristics of postmodernist thinking, an especially crucial one is relativism, the concept that one individual’s understanding of the world differs from another’s due to his personal experience. Each person experiences his own, albeit biased, version of the truth, informed by his background and cultural identity. Relativism finds its start in post-World War II America, a time when cultural identity becomes more prevalent and informs the way every person interacts with his surroundings. People begin to use many different labels and identifiers to create quasi-tribal cultural groups, and the public values the idea of diversity. The postmodern principles of relativism, cultural division, and diversity, in turn, lead writers like
As I have shown Bilbo Baggins doesn't fit the mythic hero mold of course that isn't necessary a bad thing. Every mythic hero have a flaws though in Bilbo case his flaws aren't imperfections we usually see in mythic heroes. Achilles in the Iliad was his sense of entitlement and he was pompous. Wheras Bilbo's humbleness which is a trait rarely shown in Greek and Roman mythology is what not only made him a likable character, but made him different from other mythic heroes.
Comprising the motif of animals into Macbeth ameliorates the use of characterization, creates foreshadowing, and evokes emotion. While laminating over the absence of her husband, Lady Macduff compares herself to a “poor wren” who portrays “The most diminutive of birds,” (4.2.9-10). Shakespeare’s pitiful description of Lady Macduff illustrates the full extent of her isolation, impotence, and vulnerability. In addition to exemplifying the use of characterization, Lady Macduff foreshadows the death of her and her son. Prior to her death, Lady Macduff states to Ross: “The most diminutive of birds, will flight,/ Her young ones in her nest, against the owl” (4.2.10-11).
This grandmother is proven to be unsympathetic with the use of manipulation, sneakiness, dishonesty, and unconcerned with her family’s well-being. Throughout the beginning of the short story, the grandmother begins to show manipulation and sneakiness. She wants everything to be her way and to achieve that,
The primary data would be a questionnaire. It includes eight sections that contain a personal overview of the client as well as medical information. It will be administered once at the beginning of Breathe Easy, but the last few sections will be looked over at the end of the program to determine if the client reached his/her goal and desired outcome. This questionnaire is adapted from the needs assessment from Living Well with COPD, a similar program9. This questionnaire went out to all of those in their program, but a specific population was not addressed.
