https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow By: Laura Hillenbrand en-us 2018-12-03 21:19:48 UTC 2019-01-22 01:08:51 UTC hello@padlet.com danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/311226940 2.When Louis was twelve, he saw the Graf Zeppelin for the first time. The airship was in the middle of completing a journey around the world. Louise was awestruck because it was the largest flying machine ever crafted.]]> 2018-12-05 05:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/311226940 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/311428476 Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken. Random House, 2010. ]]> 2018-12-05 16:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/311428476 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/312306696 4. He thought that he finished first and beat Lash, but then the judges said that Lash beat him. He made the Olympic team.
"Louie Zamperini was on his way to Germany to compete in the Olympics in an event that he had only contested four times. He was the youngest distance runner to ever make the team." (p.27)]]> 2018-12-07 16:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/312306696 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/312309943 After his race, he wanted a picture of Hitler and then he wanted to talk with him.
"Hitler bent from his box, smiled, and offered his hand. Louie, standing below, had to reach far up. their fingers barely touched. Hitler said something in German. An interpreter translated. "Ah, you're the boy who with the fast finish."(p.35)]]> 2018-12-07 16:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/312309943 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/315380072 He ran the mile and set a record that would last for 15 years.
"Louie had run the mile in 4:18.3. It was the fastest NCAA mile in history and the fifth-fastest outdoor mile ever run. Louie had missed the world record by 1.9 seconds. His time would stand as the NCAA record for fifteen years." (p.41)]]> 2018-12-17 23:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/315380072 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/315747564 On September 29th. he joined the army. He also did not bother to read the papers he signed and consequently agreed to rejoin the corps for future service.]]> 2018-12-19 01:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/315747564 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/316046121 Louie was hoping for a B-17 Flying Fortress but sadly did not get it. The crewmen gave the nicknames "the Flying Brick" and " the Flying Boxcar" to the B-24.]]> 2018-12-19 23:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/316046121 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/316899859 When a ground officer complained about the pay, the crew invited him to fly the plane and Louie hid under the navigators table and tugged chains making the place go out of control. When Louie friends stole his beer he stuck gum in the piss pipe. When his friends took his gum, he replaced it with a laxative variety ]]> 2018-12-30 22:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/316899859 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/316900042 Louie and his crew miraculously survives and the Japanese base is destroyed.
"The mission had been a smashing success. Every plane had returned safely. Only one bomb had missed its target, plopping into the water twenty feet offshore. The Japanese base had been gravely damaged-by one estimate, half of its personnel had been killed-and America had demonstrated the reach and power of it's B-24s.. And though the men didn't know it. the American captives had all survived." (p.76)]]> 2018-12-30 22:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/316900042 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/317369229 The Super Man and other bombers flew to Nauru and Louie dropped bombs onto the island.
"Louie had made a lucky guess and a perfect drop. The shack was a fuel depot, and he had struck dead center." (p. 95)]]> 2019-01-04 04:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/317369229 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/317369550 The Zeros attacked the bombers after they bombed Nauru island and injured many men, but the bombers won the fight.
"The submarine crew would later report that not one Zero made it back to Nauru. It is believed that thanks to this raid and others, the Japanese never retrieved a single shipment of phosphate form the island." (p.100)]]> 2019-01-04 04:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/317369550 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/317370364 The Japanese bombed the island at night and everyone was caught off guard, there was no bomb shelter so everyone had to create makeshift ones in a moments notice. Many people were killed or traumatized. In the bombing, the Super Man was not hit but was still damaged beyond repair. ]]> 2019-01-04 04:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/317370364 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/319544005 Louie and others are sent on a mission to find another lost aircraft at sea. In the process the plane they were flying crashes into the ocean.
"Green Hornet was doomed. The best Phil could do was to try to level it out to ditch. He grunted three words into the interphone: 'Prepare to crash.'" (p.118)

]]> 2019-01-11 03:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/319544005 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/319544620 While Louie was stranded on the raft, a Japanese plane saw them. Phil and Mac were too weak to go underwater so they played dead on the raft while Louie went under the water to dodge the bullets only to be attacked by sharks. Luckily, all three men were unharmed, but unfortunately, the raft was leaking air.]]> 2019-01-11 03:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/319544620 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/321026437 The shark plays with the raft for a while before going back into the ocean.
"The animal was some twenty feet long, more than three times the length of the raft, Louie recognized its features from his survival school training. It was a great white shark.... Around and around the shark went, drenching the raft with each pass. It seemed to be playing with the raft." (p. 163)]]> 2019-01-15 22:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/321026437 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/321028407 Mac who was one of the three people who survived the plane crash died on the raft. If he had not survived the crash, Louie and Phil would have been dead by the thirty-third day.]]> 2019-01-15 22:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/321028407 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/321029497 Louie and Phil see land and are captured by the Japanese. They stay at a POW camp where they have worse living conditions than when they were on the raft. In addition to that they were stripped of their dignity. They move to a different camp with many prisoners and are beat often and have to follow strict rules. The prisoners become in creative in communicating and obtaining information.]]> 2019-01-15 22:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/321029497 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322442715 This Japanese man was spoiled as a child and enrolled in the military. He was assigned to Omori (which is where Louie is staying) to be the disciplinary officer. At first he was nice and friendly but then he gained a fearsome reputation when he realized he was feared and respected for being violent. He targets people who have high rank in the military and don't bow down to him, so naturally, he targets Louie relentlessly.]]> 2019-01-20 01:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322442715 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322518061 The Radio Tokyo men wanted Louie to come to their studio and announce that he was alive. He said yes and they offered him to speak more, but Louie discovered he was being used as a propagandist tool so he refused to say what was scripted and was sent back to camp.]]> 2019-01-20 19:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322518061 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322518428 A single atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and the whole city was annihilated. The POWs have never heard of a bomb like that so they found it hard to believe.
"Exactly as the thought crossed his mind, the sky over the city ripped open in a firestorm of color and sound and felling wind. A white light, ten times the intensity of the sun, enveloped the plane as the flash and sound of it skidded out in all directions." (p.300)]]> 2019-01-20 19:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322518428 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322519137 The new broke to the POWs by a Japanese officer but they were wary to believe it. Later, an american plane flew overhead and sent the message that America did win the war. The POWs celebrated all night, but knew that they would all probably be killed in the end.
"Louie stood on wavering legs, emaciated, sick, and dripping wet. In his mind, twi words were repeating themselves, over and over. I'm free! I'm free! I'm free!" (p. 307)]]> 2019-01-20 20:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322519137 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322521447 After many flights across the world, Louie finally reunites with his family. The house was decorated for his homecoming and he opened all of the presents from all the Christmases he missed. He was also asked my many people to give many speeches, so he was very busy.]]> 2019-01-20 20:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322521447 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322809481 They understood each other well because they had alike personalitys. They wanted to get married as soon as possible so they went against their parents wishes. Louie became an alcoholic trying to forget the war and dim his PSTD. Cynthia almost divorces him.]]> 2019-01-22 00:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322809481 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322810496 Cynthia goes alone to listen to Graham because Louie is against religion. She persuades him to come and he becomes very angry and spooked. The next time he comes he has a flashback where he promises God, "If you save me, I will serve you forever." (p.375) and he becomes a changed new man.]]> 2019-01-22 00:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322810496 danieell000 https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322811174 Louie travels to Japan to find the Bird, only to learn that they believed he killed himself. Louie feels compassion for him. 
"At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over." (p. 379)]]> 2019-01-22 00:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/danieell000/y6m2ueupe8ow/wish/322811174