Unbroken Book Summary Chapter 1

Part one preface chapter 1.

Unbroken book summary chapter 1. Chapters 14 15. K university grade. A time before ipads.

Summary of unbroken by laura hillenbrand includes analysis inside this instaread summary overview of the entire book introduction to the characters in the book summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book a reader s perspective preview of the earlier chapters. Chapters 4 5. On august 26 1929 a twelve year old louis zamperini looksoutside to see a massive object blocking out the sky.

Unbroken by laura hillenbrand plot summary litcharts. Louie is impressed with it as any young boy would be at the time i e. Chapters 2 3.

Preface chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 16 chapter 17 chapter 18 chapter 19 chapter 20 chapter 21 chapter 22 chapter 23 chapter 24 chapter 25. Louie s youth and young adulthood in torrance california. Hillenbrand then provides flashbacks to fill in the high points of louie s childhood.

Born in 1917 louie zamperini was the child of italian immigrants. Summary chapter 1 opens with a scene of louie zamperini as a 12 year old boy seeing the famous german dirigible graf zeppelin fly directly over his home in torrance california. Chapter 1 the one boy insurgency in california in the summer of 1929 louie and his brother pete wake to the sound and then sight of a massive aircraft passing over their house.

Chapters 1 5 introduce an average boy who would become a remarkable man. The size of two and a half football fields it is three days into its trip around the globe. Unbroken summary young louie zamperini is the troublemaker of torrance california stealing food running like hell and dreaming of hopping on a train and leaving town for good.