From reading the book, and having seen Luke Zamperini speak on behalf of his father, I have grown to look at Louis Zamperini as a respectable, inspiring man. The story of Louis Zamperini is an amazing life lesson of learning to overcome the barriers we all face in life, some more difficult than others. Starting young Louis was a troublesome child and later overcame this using his passion to run. Louis ran himself all the way to the olympics and this was not even close to the biggest moment in his lifetime. After being stranded at sea for 47 days Louis was captured as a war prisoner of the Japanese. Louis Zamperini remained a POW for over two years and in those two years he was destroyed mentally, emotional, physically, and he no longer practiced