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.
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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