Many people believe that resilience is only about survival with strength, but really resilience can be surviving through any means. In the story, "Unbroken" a man named Louis Zamperini and his friends crashed a ship during World War II. After the crash, Louis, and two others by the name of Mac and Phil survive and must use resilience to survive in the ocean and to get back. Louis Zamperini's most essential characteristic of resilience however is strong problem-solving skills, with him being able to fix most problems they come in contact with and with the other two being the opposite and needing their problems fixed. After the crash, Louis has been helping himself, Phil, and Mac survive out in the open ocean with all his quick thinking and problem solving skills. An example of this was right after the crash, when the three needed a raft to float on the water, and it states, "Then he saw a long cord trailing off the raft, snaking not two feet from his face. He snatched the cord, reeled the raft to him, and climbed aboard," …show more content…
Louis has been able to solve problems like dehydration and starvation all with this characteristic, making it the most important in survival for them. This is more apparent by the lack of this skill from the others, requiring Louis to possess it and it becoming more needed in the long run. This characteristic of resilience does really show that Louis believes in survival, life, and himself when out in the dangerous sea, and much can be learned about how being able to solve the most tedious or even most difficult task is what may be keeping people alive. Most people may believe that strength is the most needed requirement for resilience, but the truth is that problem solving may be the actual life