"Unbroken"

I hope you have all enjoyed reading about Louie Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand had conversations with him over a 7 year period to write his story.


Here are just a few questions to get us started.

In chapter 18, and again in Chapter 20, Louie speaks to the importance of human dignity and credits it to his ability to survive. Do you agree? What role did his friendships play?

Did you believe everything you read? Could Louie have been hallucinating when the sharks were trying to leap into the raft? Did Mac truly redeem himself at the end of his life?

The young men of World War II endured great tragedy and stress, yet few were diagnosed with battle fatigue, now called post traumatic stress disorder, that is so prevalent in today’s young soldiers. What has changed?

Alison