Unbroken Essay Questions

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1)The Journal of Black scholar discusses different perspectives of determining situation as racial injustice, “How one thinks about race and racism is often limited and distorted by the "received knowledge" of American culture”(Blaine 16).

What makes people assume a racism to be clarified as a discrimination in Unbroken and other books?

•I think the act of brutal harassment or any violence to different race makes people to assume racism as a discrimination. Especially, during the periods of war. The people with different race joins the army to fight against other race and this results animosity between other ethnic groups. For example in Unbroken, “Sometimes, when they issued orders, they allowed the Bird, a mere corporal, to overrule them right to their faces”(Hillenbrand 251), the Japanese general, with hatred, purposely made Americans in POW camp to get punished by a Japanese corporal, Watanabe, a Bird. Furthermore, a lot of people died from Atomic bomb in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “The men fell silent, piecing together the rumors of one giant bomb vaporizing Hiroshima and the abrupt end to the war” (Hillenbrand …show more content…

This was a huge influence to the storyline because Louie was always thinking about killing Watanabe, instead of forgiving him. For example, he always thought about killing Watanabe in POW camp, “Each time the Bird lunged for him, Louie found his hands drawing into firsts. As each punch struck him, he imagined himself strangling the Bird”(Hillenbrand 252). Also, even though Louie was liberated from POW camp, he kept getting a nightmare of Watanabe, which irritated him a lot. Surprisingly, after he realized his true self, “In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation” (Hillenbrand 383), he forgives Watanabe and even the Japanese colonel who made him struggle. He became more