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Figurative Language In Unbroken

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Countess bunker Bell English 3B 11/7/16 Socratic seminar Part 1 Level 1- what was Pete trying to accomplish by making Louie run? Leve 2- when Louie has been at sea for approximately 3 weeks, what causes him to hide from the Japanize plains shooting at him? Level 3- Louie has no love interest back at home nothing but his family, why is he so determined to keep going and keep living, after 47 days on the ocean, in these POW camps where he is treated as less than an animal? Level 3- the universal theme of the book Unbroken is very unclear. Witch possess the question what really is the theme and point Hillenbrand was trying to get across with her book? …show more content…

She chooses her words very carefully and makes it so almost every description falls into play somewhere else in the book. One example of this is the quote “passengers gazing from the window saw only the ship’s shadow, following it along the clouds “’like a huge shark swimming alongside.”’ When the clouds parted the passengers glimpsed giant creatures, turning in the sea, that looked like monsters” (2 Hillenbrand). This particular quote is a great example because it talks about the sharks in the sea and sharks are something Louie would have to face. It is also important because it says the sharks looked like monsters, after being out in the middle of the sea for 47 days with your biggest enemy being sharks they would probably start to look like monsters. This is the way Hillenbrand foreshadows not as a direct cliffhanger but more as subtle hints left in her language about how things may look or …show more content…

Personally I think it is amazing how they were able to resist the temptation of eating fish for so long. On top of that they lived mainly on rain water. Even in there most desperate hour they never thought of cannibalism which is amazing because they were hungry and desperate. Question 4- Louie was especially close to his brother Pete, who devoted himself to him. If Pete hadn’t been there, what would have become of Louie? Does Pete deserve credit for shaping Louie into a man who could endure and survive his Odyssean ordeal? If Pete hadn’t been there or even just hadn’t taken an interest in Louie I don’t think he ever would have become the person of integrity and strength we saw when he first got stations to when he got home. Louie would have stayed the same thieving boy who only had regard for himself. Pete turned his life completely around not only did he keep Louie out of prison he also got him to the Olympics. Without Pete I don’t think Louie would have had the strength to survive the 47 days on sea let alone the POW camps. So yes I do think Pete should get some credit for Louie being who he

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