Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Unbroken

Over the winter break, I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is defiantly one of my most favorite books of all time, somewhere after The Percy Jackson Series and The Gregor Series. Unbroken is about a man named Louis Zamperini. He grew up as a mischief and stole a lot. He was the typical desperate kid, and of course he had a genius older brother who Louis tried to suck up to. The only thing that he could do that his brother couldn't was run a mile in 4:16!!! Yes, Louis Zamperini was an olympic runner who enlisted in the air force during World War 2. During World War 2, his plane, Superman, get shot up, a lot, by Japanese fighter planes. In total, Superman had some 400 bullets in it. As a result, Louis, along with his 4 remaining crew members transfer to the Green Hornet, a terribly old plane that can barely even fly. And while they were on a Search and Rescue mission, they hit turbulence and went down. Only Louis and 2 others survived and floated towards Japan for 50 days. During these 50 days, they were attacked by sharks, strafed by Japanese fighter planes, and caught up in the middle of a Typhoon, yet Phil and Louis still somehow managed to survive. This is where the story really starts. Louis, a use to be Olympian, no was suck in a little Japanese imprisonment cage with barely enough food and water to get by.
I won't spoil this book, but I will say that he was nearly murdered more than one time from beatings, his friends who were forced to punch him 300 times (Milgram's Experiment), and from malnutrition.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about history and World War 2.

1 comment:

  1. Deniz I’m glad to hear someone else has read Unbroken It’s amazing reading your post made me want to reread it. The book is so thrilling emotional and just terrific. I did some research and found out that Louie is still living. It’s such an amazing story almost to good to be true. I think we should read it in English class because it goes right along with our curriculum and WWII.

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