Unbroken Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Japanese Prisoners of War and our BookBrowse Review of Unbroken.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

Book Club Discussion Questions for Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

1. Did you like the book?  Would you add it to your permanent book collection?  What do you like or not like about this book?  The story is told from the standpoint of a narrator. Why did the author choose this style to tell this story?
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2.  Laura Hillenbrand also wrote the book: Seabiscuit: An American Legend.  This book told a very different type of story.  Were you surprised at how different they are? 
   
   
3. When Louie was young he was famous for stealing things.  He mostly took things to eat. Do you think he was hungry or was he doing it for the fun of it?  He was well known and thought of as a nuisance by the local police.  Would a kid like that in today’s society be in more or less trouble with the law?
   
   

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