Identity In Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand

Survivalist with Troubled Identity
People that have gone through really hard situations, like war, make replace question everything that replace know. War leads to terrible trauma, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.). There were thousands, if not millions, of veteran soldiers that committed suicide after WWII. In the novel Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini, Olympic runner and WWII hero, was brave enough to face reality out of coming out of hell and back after a life changing experience of being a POW. Louie going to WWII had changed so much for the worst that he even questions himself. WWII was a huge event in American history. Now for Louie, the war wasn’t the experience that changed him, or at least changed him the most. For Louie, the life of a POW was the most traumatizing part of the whole experience. Being at the camps was horrific, how the guards were so unhuman with no humanity. Louie was beaten every day, nearly froze to death every winter, and worst of all, he started to the point of almost looking like a skeleton, just to name a few. There is a a part in the novel when the Bird discovered that some fish have been stolen, and he accused Louie and some others as culprits. As their

One of the top ranking staffs, known by the POWs, was the Bird. He would always chase and seek Louie out to beat him, to humiliate him. No matter how many times he tried to blend in, he couldn’t escape. Even after he escaped, the Bird still haunted him, including in his dreams.“Next! Next! Next!” (Hillenbrand 295). The Bird to Louie was a demon that would never escape his thoughts until death. These words have haunted his dreams, never getting sleep due to the Bird being planted in his mind. There was a fear to him as well, including the other Pows. When the war was nearly over, the Japanese were thinking of killing the POWs to hide what they had done to