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“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” (Hillenbrand p.34) Louie Zamperini was a young and rising track star. He was dreaming about the Olympics,but that didn’t go as planned. It is 1943 in May Louie Zamperini’s plane had crashed in the pacific ocean during WW||. Ahead was thousands of miles of ocean with attacking sharks,thirst,and starvation/. He was caught by someone not very pleasant. But do it go away? Find out by reading unbroken By:Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken has 298 fascinating pages that is a biography written in third [erso. Unbroken is about Louie’s interesting and sacrificing life.

“The same attributes that had made him the boy terror of torrance were keeping him alive in the greatest struggle of his life.” (p.148) The

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