Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from a traumatic experience. Eric Greiten writes,“To move through pain to wisdom, through fear to courage. Through suffering to strength requires resilience” (Eric Greiten 8). Whether the way a person express resilience is positive or negative, resilience acknowledges a person’s ability and pace to overcome the troublesome occurrences in life. In the book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, the character Louis Zamperini deals with resilience by showing courage, and forgiveness. Often, different individuals are more prone to resilience not only by their forgiveness and their social surroundings but also their prior experiences, leading to the finding of peace.
The ability to forgive can alter the way a person endures tribulation. For example, in Unbroken, Louis is able to extenuate his hatred toward the
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In the documentary White Light Black Rain the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were faced with a nuclear bomb killing most of their family. Because of no prior knowledge to handle such harsh conditions, they were unable to show any proneness to the destruction to the vast majority of a once safe town. A woman who has survived the tragic attack states, “For a doctor, it's frightening not to know what you're treating “ (White Light Black Rain). Even the doctors had no knowledge of treating such disturbing wounds. Another example would be Louis’ past experience running in the Olympics, and competency to use that prior knowledge during the war. The author writes, “ The heat was suffocating…Louie could feel his feet cooking; the spikes on his feet were conducting heat up from the track” (Hillenbrand 26). Although the heat was harsh during this scene, it could not compare to the unmemorable rigid conditions of war. It may not have been a miracle worker, but it enhanced his resilience when put under the grim states of