Summary:

              This story is set in 1943 during WWII. The main character is Louis Zamperini who at the start of the book crashed his plane into the Pacific Ocean. As a child he got into fights, ran from home to ride trains, and he broke into houses. As he grew older he discovered a talent he didn't know he had, running. He made it to the berlin Olympics with being able to run a 4 minute mile. Then the war started and Louis joined the air force which brought him to crashing his plane.

              Louis is now stranded in miles of ocean on a floating raft with no hope of finding land. He faces the challenges of thirst and starvation along with having to fight off sharks. Also, the story goes in depth with the war with the evils of the Nazi's and even the viciousness of the Japanese. Louis surviving this thrilling tale will be put up to fate and his will to live.

 

 Review:

              I found this book amazing and would recommend it to anyone I know. Its a thrilling tale of life and death, fighting even though all the odds are against you with the hope that you'll make it out alive. The author ,Laura Hillenbrand, portrays Louis Zamperini in such a charismatic way that makes it hard not to love him.

              In class the most I've learned about WWII is how awful the Nazi's were during the war and how Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and how we as a nation retaliated with an atomic bomb that devastated Japan. We never really focused n how awful the Japanese really were and how big of a part they had in WWII. But with all the information Hillenbrand puts in her book about the war it really helps understand the story as a whole.