Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Joel Brookshire

Childhood

Louie was born in 1917Gets into trouble as a young boyHe loved to steal stuff and run from the lawBrother Pete gets him to run track in high schoolLouie began breaking records in races, and he took

the title as the fastest high school miler in 1934

Olympics

Louie then set his sights on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

He qualified to run the 5k but was no match for competitors

• Put everything he had into race and finished just shy of seventh

• As he began to set his sights on 1940 Olympic Games Japan and Germany began to take over nations and WWII began

War

 The Olympic Games were cancelled, and Louie was drafted into the air corps in late 1941 to serve as a bombardier

 Louie flew with pilot Russell Allen Phillips, known as Phil by his fellow airmen

Phil is the pilot of ‘the superman’

Phil

quiet, kind, and steady“He was, in Louie’s words, “a damn swell

pilot,” dealing with adversity with calm, adaptive acceptance.”

Ten serious mechanical problems in plane including two engine failures and one jammed landing gear

Once Super Man’s brakes failed and Phil stopped plane three feet short of the end of the runway, which abutted the ocean

Phil- Future Proofing and Resilience

Raid on Nauru: Heavily guarded Island Super Man’s rudder was hit bad and almost

impossible to fly Control cables cut, one rudder ruined, fuel leaking,

hydraulic fluid everywhere, 594 holes Phil landed plan successfully

Raid on Wake Island: Bomb bay doors stuck open and low on fuel Kept the crew calm Made it back safely

Phil- Good leader to bad place

Despised lieutenant asks for volunteers to go look for lost plane

Phil agreed to goCrew immediately followed himLouie wrote in his diary “we were reluctant,

but Phillips finally gave in for rescue mission”Plane crashes into pacific

Survival

Lost at sea for 47 days and survived by eating albatross, fish, and drinking rain water

Fought off sharks, Japanese air attacks, and insanity

Rescued by Japanese and holed into POW camp

Phil and Louie are shuffled around for camp to camp each one almost worst than the last

Louie ends up at Omori POW camp and meets “The Bird”

“The Bird”

Mutsuhiro Watanabe Born into wealthy familyGraduated from prestigious Japanese military

schoolLofty expectations to become a officer but

rejectedFeelings of disgrace and bitterly jealous of

officersKnown to beat POWs everydayEnjoyed the power and respect after beatings“most sadistic man ever”

The Bird- Transactional-Relationship Oriented

• The more The Bird got to know Louie the more he would beat him

• The “prize” Louie received was negative

Bad/Good leader to Bad place

• Even the other prison guards hated The Bird but still had to follow him

• He was manipulative to the prisoners

Conclusion

US wins the war and Louie and other prisoners are liberated

Louie becomes very popular back in the states and his story is widely spread

He becomes an alcoholic while suffering from PTSD

Then he goes on the become a Christian and starts a camp for trouble kids