Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a non-fiction real story about an Italian-American man by the name of Louie Zamperini and his struggles before, during, and after World War 2. The story is told from the perspective of Louie himself and occasionally goes to the third person. When Louie’s Olympic dream is crushed by World War 2, he enters the army as a pilot and sets out to the islands near Japan to fight the Asian theatre, this is the story of what happened during that time.
A theme and central idea I discovered very early on in the book is Don’t give up, and World War 2. As Louie deals with many challenging experiences he has to go through, he could’ve given up and let himself die or succumb to failure, but he didn’t.
Then I read further and looked deeper into “don’t give up” and found a more detailed expression, You shouldn’t give up when things seem impossible.
Eventually, during lesson 6/5 I was curating the main points as evidence for this claim of don’t give up, and started seeing how everything connected together, whilst also explaining why it’s a key idea.
In lesson 7 I thought more in-depth about how World War 2 and Don’t Give Up are connected to each other, whilst also identifying other potential ideas and themes.
I then paid closer attention to pieces of information that showed up in the book, such as objects, locations, people, etc. One thing I found that showed up a lot in the last third of the book was the B-24s, which were bomber planes that really helped the allies win the war. So I took a deep dive and researched into it more. Here’s what I found.
Thank you for taking the time to read this blog about my reading journey of unbroken, if you would like to read the book Unbroken click here, or learn more about Louie Zamperini click here.
April 6, 2022 at 6:13 pm
you stole my title