The book I read is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Holy cow! What a book. It takes you through the story of the great olympic runner Louis Zamperini. We go with him to the Olympics, to Hawaii, to Japan, and then back to California, where he grew up as a kid. Louie joined the army and became an airforce bomber. As his crew went out to search for a missing plane one day, his plane crashed. And that is where the biggest part of his journey, and the meat of this book, begins with Louis and his flight mate, Phil, struggling to survive the harsh environments of being POW’s for the Japanese government. There are many of people introduced throughout the book as Louis encounters them. This story is hard to give a meaningful intent to because the author’s intent was to share Louis Zamperini’s survival story. Which, in my opinion, is pretty meaningful. There were a lot of horrors discussed in the book, that is unimaginable to think that so many people from all over the world, endured such terrible conditions. The author, Laura Hillenbrand, wanted to show some of the horrors that occurred during …show more content…
Or at least shows a small sliver of history. Not everyone that was a prisoner of the Japanese government had the same experience that Zamperini had. Frankly, I believe he had been shown a lot of mercy in those camps and by a higher power. Many though, did have similar experiences. They were beaten daily, if not multiple times a day. Knowing that prisoners of war survived such horrific conditions, like not getting the right amount of food but being forced to do some hard work, fathoms me! At one point in the book, Louis, who had been basically starved and beaten(daily), raced a man in a mile race. He says he let the man win. But then another man came to race him and Louis beat the second man! Then took a beating from one of the Japanese commanders. I am just in awe to think that Louis had the strength to survive all of that within a couple days of each