Unbroken Chapter Summary

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Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, chapter 24, “Hunted”
Chapter 24 of the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand givens insight of the story of Louis Zamperini who was captured and became a POW and before the war was an Olympian. When Louis first arrived at the POW camp he was greeted by the other POW’s with tea and sugar indicating that even through this hard time they still were looking out for each other. “The Bird” or Watanabe was not as kind throughout this chapter he beats the POW’S for little to no cause, trying to break there “spirit” he gave the officers degrading jobs and made the POW’s solute him and his window. The POW’s as said before were victim to several beating, but still fought back, not on a huge scale but on a minor scale like only working when “the Bird” was around, or doing the job wrong on purpose. For many of the POW’s who made it out of these camps there would still be issues such as trying to rehabilitate back to normal life or PTSD when they returned home many turned to alcohol because of the trauma that the conditions of the war caused.
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For the women who did work in the factory they faced problems on and off the job, such as the very high temperatures or being treated differently for working a “mans” job. The role the women had on the work force during WWII changed their post-war life also by giving them a steady income and not having to rely on a man to pay the
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