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Acceptance In The Book 'Unbroken'
Louie is extremely confident and has an excellent determination to survive and to keep going on, even know it was difficult and hard. One important event about Louie’s life, was when Louie went to the Olympics to race. Another enormous thing that happened in his life, was when he crashed in the ocean and had to spend many weeks on a small raft, with 3 people in it. In the book Unbroken, the author states that even know Louie got through the POW camp with the bird beating on him constantly, He still has nightmares about the bird, and can’t get him out of his head. With so much stress on him, he starts drinking alcohol to try to forget about the bird. While Louie was on the raft, he was extremely resourceful because he didn’t know how long

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