Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand by https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w Presented by Sam Sullivan en-us 2017-06-20 14:32:46 UTC 2025-10-05 16:53:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/147147487/5c823b12e588b182a8af26089add734e/Unbroken_by_Laura_Hillenbrand__cover_.jpg Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand samsully33 https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176995721 "#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER hailed by TIME magazine as the best nonfiction book of the year. One of the longest-running New York Times bestsellers of all time, Unbroken has spent more than four years on the Times list in hardcover, fifteen weeks at number one, and counting. Recently released in paperback, Unbroken debuted at #1 and remains there after more than 20 weeks. The book is the winner of the Los Angeles TimesBook of the Year Award for Biography. The young reader edition, released in November, 2014, is also a New York Times bestseller."

]]> 2017-06-20 15:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176995721 Opinion samsully33 https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176996486 My personal opinion of this novel is that it is very inspiring. If there is anything that i could take away from it is that it really empowers the reader. It makes you feel that human beings themselves are very resilient and can overcome tremendous odds. Louis "Louie" Zamperini undergoes adversity can only try to survive]]> 2017-06-20 15:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176996486 Summary samsully33 https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176997284 In the novel a man named Jack O'Connell goes to fight in the WWII after making the 1963 Olympics. Instead of just staying home and running he does what is right and puts his life on the line for the greater good. After becoming a B-22 bomber pilot he is deployed over Japan were his plane crashes. He survives the landing but is soon taken as a prisoner of war or POW by the Japanese and placed in a POW camp. In the camp he undergoes torture by the japanese soldiers and must work every single day in the worst of conditions. Hundreds of POW's die during his time at the camp but he seems to be fights the suppression. Adventually after many occasions of of torture and abuse Louie finds a way to make it to the end o the war.]]> 2017-06-20 15:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176997284 Reality samsully33 https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176999028 Jack O'Connell
Born: August 1, 1990
Birthplace:
Derby, England, UK

Louis Zamperini
Born: January 26, 1917
Birthplace: Olean, New York, USA
Death: July 2, 2014, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia)

C.J. Valleroy
Birthplace:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Young Louis
Photo circa 1927

Alex Russell
Born: December 11, 1987
Birthplace:
Queensland, Australia

Pete Zamperini
Born: May 24, 1915
Birthplace: Dunkirk, New York, USA
Death: May 15, 2008, San Clemente, California, USA

Miyavi (Takamasa Ishihara)
Born: September 14, 1981
Birthplace:
Konohana-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Mutsuhiro Watanabe (aka "The Bird")
Born: circa 1918
Birthplace: Japan
Death: April 2003

Domhnall Gleeson
Born: May 12, 1983
Birthplace:
Dublin, Ireland

Lt. Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips
Born: August 1, 1916
Birthplace:Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Death: December 18, 1998, Marietta, Georgia, USA

Finn Wittrock
Born: October 28, 1984
Birthplace:
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA

SSgt. Francis "Mac" McNamara
Born: February 19, 1920
Birthplace: Pollagh County Mayo, Ireland
Death: June 30, 1943, Pacific Ocean (at sea) (starvation/dehydration)

Garrett Hedlund
Born: September 3, 1984
Birthplace:
Roseau, Minnesota, USA

LtCdr. John Allison Fitzgerald
Born: May 16, 1908
Birthplace:California, USA
Death: July 6, 1990

Jai Courtney
Born: March 15, 1986
Birthplace:
Sydney, Australia

1Lt. Charleton Hugh "Cup" Cuppernell
Birthplace:California, USA

Morgan Griffin
Born: June 4, 1992
Birthplace:
Australia

Cynthia Applewhite
Born: January 20, 1926
Birthplace: USA
Death: February 21, 2001, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)

]]> 2017-06-20 15:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176999028 Books Central Questions samsully33 https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/176999551 How much adversity can one take?
When reading this book I thought a lot about this question. The book came to be a series of ups and downs. One moment the POW's were rejoicing and talking of the past. Jack is even taken into one of the main cities for a nice lunch. Although immediately after these highs points a low is soon to follow. When he is taken to the city he is then tortured for days after for not complying with the rules. Not one does jacks will break. He stays strong.Every turn you think that this is it and he is gonna die.

In what ways will Jack be changed by the end of the novel?
By the end of the novel is is clear to see that Jack has become changed. He has really grown up. His experience was horrible but it made him into a strong willed man. As if nothing can break h



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When Winston Churchill said "If you're going through hell, keep going," he might as well have been talking about Louie Zamperini, whose picture should come up every time someone Googles perseverance.
Suffering
You probably don't need Unbroken to tell you this, but crash landing in the Pacific is not fun. Fending off shark attacks? Nope, not fun either. And neither is being forced to clean up after pigs. He lived in some of the worst conditions ever experienced by human kind
Friendship
One of the most misguided ad campaigns in recent history is the U.S. Army's creation of the slogan "Army of One." Because do you know what happens to an army of one? He dies. The people who sur...
War
Take a look at the cover of Unbroken. Oops. Wrong Unbroken. Take a look at this cover. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption"—it's right there on the cover: Wor...

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This book is very good of you like a little bit of action. In some ways its kind of a tear jerker. I think it is my favorite book of all time. Except for Catcher in the Rye of Course.]]> 2017-06-20 16:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/samsully33/tcgjr4zuem1w/wish/177002558