Prisoner of war camps were common during World War II. However, the book Unbroken displays the true horrors that were in the Japanese prisoner of war camps. This book captures the life of Louis Zamperini and tells the horrendous conditions that he and other prisoners faced during their time in the prisons. The Japanese internment camps did not fulfill the purpose of the camp, the treatment of the prisoners that they deserved; also the prisoners were given meaningless jobs to fulfill.
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man 's soul in his body long past the point when the body should have surrendered it” (Hillenbrand 189). In the novel Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis “Louie” Zamperini goes through several life-threatening experiences. After being a troublemaker as a child, and an Olympic athlete, Louie straps up his boots and becomes a bombardier for the Army Air Corps. After a traumatizing crash and a forty-six day survival at sea, Louie is taken captive by Japanese officials.
Unbroken is a biography about World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, who was a former olympic track runner who survived a plane crash in the pacific ocean. Spent up to 47 days drifting in the ocean. However that wasn’t even close to how long he spent as a prisoner of war in three Japanese camps. Louis had an interesting , and suspenseful life, but he managed to survive which is the surprising part of it all. This book gave us an insight into Louis Zamperini’s life about how belief is the most powerful, if not essential part of growing and overcoming crisis.
World War ll: Camp Atlanta It may surprise you that during World War ll (WWll), here in America, we also had Prisoner of War (POW) camps. What might be even more surprising is that there were even a few here in the state of Nebraska. There were many POW camps in Nebraska, but who would have guessed there would be a camp in Atlanta, Nebraska, a little town of one hundred thirty-one people. The thousands of prisoners held in Nebraska, the design of the Camp Atlanta, and last but not least, what the conditions were like inside the camp are three of the main points to discuss.
Force of the Strong, Abuse of the Weak “The Japanese roasted their captives over fires, poured kerosene over them and set them on fire, burned them with chemicals, tortured them or cut them to pieces”(“Japan Captures Nanjing”). Like this brutality and the use of fear and coercion on prisoners in WWII be seen reflected in William Golding 's novel, “The Lord of the Flies”. This fear and brutality can be recognized in many WWII events including the Nazi Concentration Camps, The Rape of Nanking, the American Japanese Internment Camps and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In these first three events brutal torture, rape and removal of prisoner’s personal possessions all occurred.
There are many different types of camps in the world but there are two different types of camps that can be considered the same thing, there is Japanese Internment camps and there is Nazi Concentration camps. Japanese Internment camps and Nazi Concentration camps are two different things. One of the camps was made just to contain the Japanese until they sweared their allegiance. The other was made to kill the jews and make them work until they can no longer, witch ever comes first.
Japanese Crucible Clarence Drewa Hour: Last Over 127,00 U.S. citizens were imprisoned during World War 2 just because of having japanese ancestry. Putting the Japanese Americans into internment camps shows how there was hatred and unjust behavior towards one another in America. This is also shown in Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible”.
Almost 400 camps were built for prisoners of war in the South, the Great Plains and in the Midwest; ironically, while the prisoner camps were filling up across the country, America was struggling with acute labor shortage (“Prisoners of war”).
Similarities and Differences Between U.S. and Japan POW Camps The novel Unbroken is a narrative about a man named Louis Zamperini who went from being an olympic runner to prisoner in the worst prisoner of war camp during World War II. He has to overcome many obstacles such as surviving on a raft after his plane crashes and staying alive at Execution Island. The author of the novel, Laura Hillenbrand, was born in Fairfax, Virginia on May 15, 1967. She is an author who writes novels and magazines and has sold over 13 million copies between her two bestselling novels, Unbroken and Seabiscuit:
For three centuries, American POWs, like Kurt Vonnegut, have examined their experience by writing personal histories that search for a sense of social, legal, historical, and personal order in the midst of captivity. In the novel Slaughterhouse five Vonnegut had allusions in the book historic allusions, geographic allusions and scientific allusions. People did not liked to get drafted and on the other hand young boys were excited to go in war and serve for country but when they became prisoner of war they hated it and they wanted to escape and return home. Prisoner of war have always had to face terrible situations. Throughout history have treated prisoner of wars differently.
While concentration camps were well known of during World War II, much of the world was ignorant to the harsh realities of the camps. Unfortunately, the experiences of the liberators were far from anything anyone could have ever expected. In Hell Before Their Very Eyes, John C. McManus writes about the first-hand experiences of the liberators of the Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps and how these experiences influenced the liberators outlooks on the Germans and the war. On April 4, 1945 the Ohrdruf camp was approached by the 4th Armored and 89th Infantry divisions.
A documentary by VICE News interviewed two guards from Camp Seven, a top-secret detention center that holds fourteen high-value detainees, including four involved in the 9/11 attacks. Camp Seven is unknown to most and not mentioned to anyone not deployed there. This was the first time anyone spoke up about the post-traumatic stress disorder they suffered from coming out of Camp Seven.
Overcoming Dehumanization “Louie watched the sky and hoped the Americans would come before the Bird killed him” (181). This is one of the many examples of how the way POWs were treated in these camps influenced many lives negatively. Like many other Prisoners of War, Louie Zamperini survived several difficult conditions. He had to resist several attempts of dehumanization. In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses both internal and external conflict to show that war has profound and varied effects on individuals.
POW camps have always been found during wars as warriors are captured. From the Egyptians who used the captured enemy combatants as workers, to the Terrorists who use them for information. They are known to be cruel and inescapable. They strike fear into those who have lived there. These camps were believed to be a place where even the Devil wouldn’t dare go.
Unbroken The author wrote this story to inform the reader of the life of Louis Zamperini, while also telling the story in an entertaining way. Hillenbrand demonstrated the main idea throughout the book by using rhetorical devices such as diction, syntax, imagery, and tone. Hillenbrand’s use of these rhetorical devices contribute to the book Unbroken by emphasizing the main character, Louis “Louie” Zamperini’s, life before, during, and after becoming a prisoner of war.
