How Is Louis Zamperini Portrayed In The Book Unbroken

Henry John Patch, the last surviving soldier of world war two quoted saying that, “war is organized murder and nothing else”(“Patch Harry”). Louis Silvie Zamperini, was a Olympic distance runner, who was faced with being a US prisoner of war survivor in World War II and had to go through unspoken atrocities, that traumatized him for life. Laura hillenbrand, novel Unbroken tells the life of Louis Zamperini an Olympic runner and military aviator life, and the agonizing and horrific abuse that he had to face at the hands of his capures after being stuck at sea for 47 days without any supplies, and all he had to rely on was his mental strength. Louis started off as a young man who had so many opportunities that were going going for him in his life,

Just alone from his younger years he went against the rules that were set up for him by his parents and even society. By being a smoker at just five years old and drinker at 8, he built an adolescent criminal empire based around stealing anything and blackened the eyes of any kids that dared challenge him, and being disrespectful to his superiors. Zampines lived by that code for the majority of his young life and so when he was striped of the will of being rebelioes and do as he pleased, and having to be demeaned and put down was a heavy toll on his self esteem and who he identified himself as.“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.” “Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.” (Hillenbrand 189). After the experience of Louis losing his dignity he truly started to understand just how important dignight is to the human survival and just how without it, life may seem meaningless and almost impossible it continue. Although this is was just the beginning of what he would experience, the fact that he can already understand how important dignity is this early in the novel, is every important to all the he obstacle that he would come through