Sunday, November 17, 2013

The very interesting book Unbroken  by Laura hillenbrand, starts off with the story of a young boy from an italian family, who always caused trouble. If it was edible, it was in louis Zamperinis stomach. he was often chased by the people who he stole from, but never caught. in his college years ahe runs track, defeating everyone in his path. When the 1940 olympics were cancelled, the war hed tarted, louis was drafted to the Army and little did he know that his confident childhood affected greatly his actions during the war. Louis zamperini had a very defined character amd this affects him greatly.
    As a young boy louis zamperini was a troule maker, but never got caught, and i can imagine this as a huge confidence booster. he was confident that he was clever, resourceful, and bold enough to escape any predicament. this showed in a moment where almost anone else would have panicked, when a shark was coming right at him. His plane had crashed and his team were all in a yellow raft, in the middle of the ocean, for twenty six days without fod or water. “On the morning of the Twenty seventh day, they signaled to a plane that came roaring over them. but the plane was a actually a japanese fighter, and came around to shoot them. Louis jumped overboard, and tied himself to a string that was hanging onto the raft, there were sharks around him. “IN the murky blur beyond it, he saw the huge gaping mouth of a shark emerge out of the darkness and rush straight for his legs.
    louie recoiled, pulling his legs towards his body. the current was too strong for him to get his legs beneth him, but he was abe to swing them to the side, away from the sharks mouth. the shark kept coming, directly at louies head. louie remebered his training in honolulu, where a man had told him Make a threatning expression an stiff arm the sharks snout.” beacause of his confidence and bold ness he wasa able to escape his predicament, by baring his teeth at a shark, and puching him in the nose.Without his defined boldness and courage, the story could have ended roght then and there. As you can see his characyer greatly defines and affects him.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

 Monday Muses

One of my favorite books as a child, was actually a french book, aimed at boys and taught them good manners and proper habits. One half of the book gave the story of how a proper superhero would act, for example: He would brush his teeth, when he woke up. Then he would make his bed. then he would eat breakfast, and so on until he goes back to bed. The other side of the book talked about what a bad superhero would be like, for example: mess up his rom when he wakes up, goes to school late, etc.
This bok was very important to me becaus it taught me all the good manners and habits you need to beable to be polite and respectful to people around you today