Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Analysis

Chris Lay

Mrs. Secrist

English 8

15/5/24

Argumentative essay

One of my favorite games is called Ravine. In this game you try to survive being stranded on an island with the other people playing. In this game as well as in real life people don't survive on chance but people do survive using their strengths. The most important factors for survival are mental and physical strength.

In the story Unbroken by “Laura Hillenbrand” it shows that mental and physical strength helps people survive in a crisis. In the story it says, “Louie had been told that the liver was the only part of the shark that was edible, getting it was no mean feat” (Hillenbrand 56). This shows mental strength because if a person is stranded for twenty days, it would be hard for them to remember things that they learned a while ago. In the story it also states, “Even with a knife sharkskin is about as easy to cut as a coat of mail; with only the edge of a mirror to cut with, the labor was draining” (Hillenbrand 56). This shows that physical strength is necessary in survival because with mental strength you can think of a way to …show more content…
Some people may say this, but chance doesn’t play a part in survival. In the article “What it Takes to Survive a Crisis” it says “‘luck is not a magical ability from the gods’”. Wiseman writes ‘instead it is a state of mind – a way of thinking and behaving’” (Sherwood 17). This is saying that people that can think and use their mental strength in a crisis will be more likely to survive and will essentially be “luckier”. In the article it also says “‘being in the right place at the right time is actually being in the right state of mind’” (Sherwood 18). This is saying survival in crisis is not luck, your state of mind matters. How you behave all depends on your mindset and where, when and how you react in crisis depends on how you behave It never depends on luck. People don’t survive on luck, but on

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Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand Analysis

Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand: An Analysis