Unbroken Book Report

In the biography, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, a young boy named Louis Zamperini’s life revolved around running and training for the Olympics. Running had a huge impact on his life and ended up changing how he would act. In his early days, Louis was an irresponsible and rebellious kid. Running would later force him to buckle down and focus on running and training. Many people influenced Louis, but only one made the biggest impact on his life. That person is Pete Zamperini, Louis’ older brother.

Throughout the novel Always Running by Luis J Rodriguez, Grillo the main character is trying to find a way out of the gang life, to find a better life for his family and himself. While Grillo was trying to find a way out the gang life he falls into drugs Grillo starts doing drugs to suppress his issues in life with his family, school, and himself. Grillo also faces the death of his friends, and participates in violent crimes with his friends. As a result of Grillo doing drugs, facing the death of his friends, and participating in violent crimes with his friends, his character changes a great deal within the novel.

In Unbroken, “Louie idolized Pete who watched over him and their younger sisters, Sylvia and Virginia, with paternal protectiveness” (Hillenbrand 8). As a child Louie was very troublesome. At the age of five he began to smoke and pick up cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten. At the age of eight, he began drinking. Later on in his life, Louie began to admire his brother Pete. Toward the beginning of the movie, Louie is seen skipping his church service and sitting on a bench drinking (Jolie). With the admiration that Louie gave his brother, Pete was able to use that in order to help Louie change and influence him to join the track team and put his skills to good use. The movie shows Pete trying to train Louie at track in order for him to become better and join the track team (Jolie). The more practice they did, the faster Louie became. He greatly admired his brother for pushing him as hard as he did so that he could be successful. Later on in the novel, Fred Garrett, a B-24 pilot admires Louie. “Garret had spent much of his time mulling over that last name on the wall, perhaps thinking that if this man survived, so might he” (Hillenbrand 215). This kind of admiration gave Garret hope. He is kept in a cell that Louie was once in when he was captured. Louie’s survival story gave Garrett the hope that he needed to make it through. Louie’s admiration increased because, “Over the years, he received an absurd number of

Louie Zamperini has determination because he waited for a fish to hook on “For days, Louie lay over the side of the raft, fishhooks on his fingers, trying in vain to catch another fish”(117). Louie Zamperini is strong and pulls through the hardest situations “It gave them just enough water to last a short while longer” (117). Things like this show how strong he is “Then came a third experiment, then a fourth”(143). Louie was experimented on over and over, he was left with burning rashes and other painful symptoms.“Beatings were almost constant ”(149). Louie new everyday he was getting beat, tortured and mocked. All of the quotes show the worst things a person can go through in a lifetime and these are really bad things to have to go

This is Louie Zamperini’s turbulent life. When Louie was a young man, he had a very bad reputation in the community, he would steal, drink, smoke, and fight. But as he got older he realized that he should change, so his brother made him put his fast legs to good use. He made him join the track team, and made him practice hard. Eventually Louie made it to the top, the Olympics. Because of Louie’s accomplishments, especially the Olympics, all of Torrance forgave him for all his wrongs. Louie Zamperini, from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, exhibits the characteristic traits of strength, forgiveness, and understanding through his actions.

Louie started his life on the wrong path, he then turned into a champion. When Louie was a child he was terrible, the cops had to bring him home almost everyday. He was fast, so his brother started training him each and everyday. Louie was also a prisoner of war. The title of this book is Unbroken the author is Laura Hillenbrand and two traits that define Louie are admirable and rebellious.

In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses the characters Mac and Louie to express the theme; people often discover their true natures in their darkest moments. Louie and Mac went through times where survival seemed unlikely and both showed the true nature while dealing with

way in Louie's life. Pete helps Louie become the best runner in school and then making it to the

When Louie Zamperini was young, he was considered a bad child, he would drink alcohol out of an old bottle, but color it white so it looked like he was drinking milk. He started smoking cigarettes at the age of 5 years old and he was a thief, he would steal from people and businesses anything that wasn’t nailed down and easy to grab. “I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.”(qtd. in brainyquote.com). His family was convinced he would be heading to prison until his brother Pete started encouraging him to run. He started breaking school records and that’s when he realized he had true potential. In the 1930s, he qualified for the Olympics in in Berlin he finished in 8th place, but he won over the crowd by setting the record of the fastest final lap. Although Louie forgot his promise he made with God, God never forgot the

At first when being introduced to Louis Zamperini, it was simple to see him as a thief, as just a kid who liked to steal just because he had the finesse to do so. Albeit, as his story progresses, we see that Louie wasn’t causing ruckus for the sake of a laugh, but to give to those around him. For this reason, when Louie began to pursue running as his passion, many people from his town immediately became inspired. Upon seeing this troublesome teenage boy who once hastened from the cops suddenly running the track with an unwavering look on his face, Louie’s persistence shined through: ”’You could beat him to death, ad he wouldn’t say ‘ouch’ or cry.’” (9) . Running for his hometown and his personal nobility, he dedicated more time to focusing on himself and winning races than committing crimes, and his zeal

Louie Zamperini was a barbaric boy who became a world famous track sensation, whom competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics at the age of nineteen years old. Louis Zamperini was the youngest contestant in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. At the age of nineteen he struck the world with his running compassion and talent. Later Louie stepped back from his running career and converted into an Army Air Corps bombardier, turning his life around. After surviving his worst nightmare, he altered to a world wide famous runner, for the world thought “Zamperini dead” but pursuing them he is alive and stronger than ever. A #1 New York times bestseller, “Unbroken” is released by Laura Hillenbrand whom created an all time biography that tells the resolute and gallant life of and Louis Zamperini.

Louie Zamperini was born on January 26, 1917. Louie soon became the neighborhood trouble maker. He quickly began learning how to steal food and money along with manipulating panks for whosoever should walk into his trap. Reaching his high school years, Louie’s older brother, Pete, found a way to keep Louie out of trouble. Pete, seeing Louie running away from his scams, realized Louie’s talent for running. Louie was soon signed up for his high school track team. Louie excelled, and he soon began winning every race he entered. In 1934, Zamperini set the national high school record for a mile run, and was named the “Torrance Tornado.”

Many people might say rebellious children should be stopped, but in hindsight of all that the little bit of rebelling can make a large difference. Determination in sights of distress might be the only way to cope with the hardships. In the novel, Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand, uses Louie´s life experiences to show his two most important traits: rebellion, and determination.

Lamont Thomas had only been running for a couple of weeks when people started calling him “The Running Man”. He runs every day logging 84 miles a week, which is a lot, but when considering dedicated daily runners this is nothing exceptional. When he runs, Lamont attracts a lot of attention. His friends joke this because “He’s running so fast it looks like he stole something.” But it isn’t Lamont’s speed that sets him apart from the other runners around town. Rather it’s his truly inspirational spirit, positive attitude for life, and taking on any challenges it might throw at you.

The short story Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara is about a girl named Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, the fastest runner in the neighborhood. She is responsible for her little brother, Raymond. Even though Hazel has to take care of Raymond she will do anything to keep her running skills in place. In this short story the author, Toni Cade Bambara, uses figurative language, foreshadowing, irony, and characteristics of the main characters of the story to create meaning in the story, theme.