Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• This was the island he Louie & Phil washed up on after their journey at sea.

• They are treated surprisingly well given the fact that they are on a Japanese island (enemy territory). They're given food, water, and medical care in the infirmary.

• Phil even thinks to himself, "They are our friends" (134).

• What Phil and Louie don't realize is that they'll be transferred to Kwajalein ("Execution Island') in a few short days.

july 16th 1943 - august 26th 1943

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• louie lost his will to live

• food rations were limited

• louie was stabbed with sticks & forced to dance

• "the second day began. phil and louie lay in sweating silence, expecting to be dragged out and beheaded."

early september 1943 - september 30 1944

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• guards are beaten

• extremely limited food rations

• negative views of captives

• bathed in disinfectant

september 30th 1944 - winter 1945

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• "for weeks, Louie was deaf in one ear. the bird hit him daily"

• bird was making Louie go crazy

• malnutrition

• pow camp & rules of war aren't followed

winter 1945

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• pow camp

• slave labor - transporting coal & salt

• bird mentally traumatizes louie

• "it was the darkest moment in louie's life. the bird stood over him, triumphant. i am in command, he said. you will obey"

may 1943

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• was wrecked

• harm people were everywhere

• everyone was traumatized

• " the wounded and dead were everywhere. two mechanics who had been caught in the open were bruised all over "

  
  

1919

Description (3 details with an integrated quote):

• louie & his family moved here from olean ny

• Louie grew up here

• louie was a bad kid

• "for all her efforts, she could not tame louie. he ran away and wandered for days."