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Comparison Of Mine Okubo And Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken

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Although many people see war being broadcasted, it is not just on the battle fields where it is being fought. Wars can occur in remote and isolated locations; it can also occur out on the field. For many prisoners of war (POWs), like Louie Zamperini, the hero from Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, the long term effects on the brain are detrimental. Many people during WWII were imprisoned, beated, and made to feel “invisible.” Even though POWs go through a lot, there are still battles being fought that aren’t seen. Mine Okubo - a nisei - was born in California and was an American citizen by birth, but forcibly removed from her life and put in a Japanese American internment camp by the United States Government. The internment camps were specifically …show more content…

However, they both resisted the pressure and resisted the acts of the higher ups. While in the internment camps, Okubo got an amazing opportunity to go to New York for her art skills: however, Okubo was stuck in an interment camp. Okubo applied for a loyalty test which Okubo passed. Okubo resisted the forces of the United States government by proving her loyalty and going on to have an amazing art carrer, some of her art peices captured what the internment camps were really like. On the other hand, Louie Zamperini fought many relentless battles against the guards, especially against the bird. Louie says, “He cannot break me” (Hillenbrand 113). By saying this Louie resisted the attempts of the Bird trying to make him feel invisible. Even thought Louie was already resisting the Bird, Louie and the other POWs resisted even more, “...They threw dirt in gas tanks” (Hillenbrand 179) Louie and the other POWs did this because they were being treated like slaves in the coal mine. Although not as harsh as what the POWs went through, the POWs threw dirt into the gas tank so that the Japanese could learn not to mess with the POWs because they will fight back. Resistance is a key part to any battle being fought, with Miné being put in “relocation centers…” that are “not normal and probably never can be.” (Fractured Ideals), and Louie who was put in a POW camp for two years, they both resisted the powers of the higher up who had control over

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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.

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Gruenewald parents on the other hand handle the experience a little different from others stated my Gruenewald her parents would always say “Yes, it is difficult, isn’t it? I have those same concerns. All we can do now is hope that all this will end son and we can all go home.” When the Japanese were locked up they all were giving a questionnaire which two types where giving out one for the Isseri and the other for the Niseri. Both of the asked if both groups would swear allegiance to the United States and the Niseri were giving a question if they were willing to serve in the military and this is what divided the Niseri.

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Louie Zamperini was a world known olympian and he was captured by the Japanese and tortured. Louie zamperini was captured and put in an POW camp. He was dehumanized and was treated to make him feel no self worth. But he was resilient and fought and survived 2 years in the camps. Mine was a japanese-american and put in an internment camp and was moved to camps and lived in horse stalls.

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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.

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is the personalized account of Louis Zamperini by author Laura Hillenbrand. She researched and described Zamperini's personalized accounts of his life from birth until his return home from World War II as a Prisoner of War in Japan. Hillenbrand introduces Louis Zamperini as the son of Anthony and Louise, Italian immigrants, born in 1917. They lived in Torrance, California in the midst of immigrant hatred. Louie lived a troubled childhood, constantly fighting or stealing to prove himself.

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Shortly after being captured, Zamperini is taken to a POW camp where he is abused physically and mentally. Throughout the novel the readers learn that the hardships of war effect Louie, causing the loss of his dignity. After Louie was captured by the Japanese, he was taken to a POW camp ,Ofuna, they began to deprive Louie of human essentials such as food and water. To make matters worse, they started to conduct experiments on him and his comrade Phil, “The doctor pushed more solution into his vein, and the spinning worsened.

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This book reminded me of many others stories of POWs and people in Nazi Concentration Camps. There was one story I read called “Making Bombs for Hitler” about a Ukrainian girl who is taken to a concentration camp. The Nazis thought there was no such place as Ukraine, so they gave her the least amount of food like the Russian prisoners, which was nothing compared to the meat, potatoes, and carrot soup with pudding that the Germans got. Louie Zamperini similarly got less food than other POWs since he was sent to a camp that was not classified as a POW camp, allowing the Japanese to treat him in any way they wanted because he had none of the rights that a normal POW would have. Unbroken also reminded me of a book called “Into the Killing Seas” about 3 boys during WWII, Benny, Patrick, and Teddy, who are on the USS Indianapolis when it is hit by a Japanese torpedo.

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He grab it no matter what happened. Food fell from the sky as he beat the shark to death. Thus Louie is a determined person when he knew their was no chance to survive without food Louie was

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War can have a big impact to people alone and to society. Louie Zamperini from “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand is isolated, dehumanized , beaten and imprisoned from the soldiers of the POW camps of japan. Mine Okubo a Japanese American is taken from society and into a internment camp for Japanese American citizens. Louie as a POW and Mine as an Japanese American internee both experienced being invisible in the camps while they were putting effort to resist.

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While on their way to an internment camp, Mine Okubo explains that when her family went through the Berkeley center, “... they were assigned collective family number 13660, and were never again referred to by their officialdom by their given names,” (“Riverside’s Mine Okubo”). This shows that none of the Japanese-Americans were really respected at this time in history. In the book, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, she tells about Louie was a POW ahd liked to cause trouble when he was younger. She writes “... Louie was commended to crawl on the ground, picking pieces up feces and cramming handfuls of the pig’s feed into his mouth to save himself from starvation to death,” (Hillenbrand 206).

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She also, unlike many internment survivors, had the courage to share her story of

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There were flares and mortar rounds, and the stink was everywhere- it was inside him, in his lungs- and he could no longer tolerate it”(149). Since the war the soldiers get flashbacks of different scenarios all the time. It takes a toll on how they think and the trauma, guilt, and grief they felt in that

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Other prisoners told him to give in or the Bird would beat him to death. Louie couldn’t do it” (181). This shows how although Louie was tortured by the Bird, who attempted to make him feel invisible and dehumanized, he never let him win. Next, Louie stole food from the guards to make him feel like he was doing something. This is shown when the author explained how, “Eventually, he was so frantic to eat that he broke into the kitchen and stole chestnuts reserved for the guards, an act that could’ve gotten him killed” (165).

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Louie had brought out this theme in the camps many times. He had stayed strong against the Bird, who would stop at nothing to destroy his dignity. Once, the Bird had given Louie and some others the job of cleaning the benjo, or bathroom. The Bird thought they were going to hate it, but, “To deprive him of the pleasure of seeing them miserable, they made a point of being jolly” (179). If Louie would have shown he was despondent, the Bird would possess all the power.

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His only hope of pulling himself together, he believed, was to kill the man who’d taken everything from him” (263). Louie needs to use resiliency to overcome what had occurred with the Bird, he needed to see the bright side of things and look at the new opportunity it created. In chapter 39, “At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful, effortless, and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over” (273).

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