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Louie begins regularly describing meals his mother used to prepare, which tricks their stomachs into satisfaction. Mac is more withdrawn than the other men. The men go on this way for many more days, floating along, eating what they can, drinking what water falls from the sky.
Louie is a man with incredible endurance who miraculously survives many trials, including a long sea journey on a raft and then years of cruel treatment as a Japanese prisoner of war. He survives through a combination of inner strength, luck, and camaraderie with other POWs.
- Laura Hillenbrand
- 2010
Back in the prisoner of war camp, Louie, Frank Tinker, and Bill Harris start to form an escape plan. Louie had been surviving partly by taking extreme risks, including by stealing food from the kitchen. Louie takes up an offer to serve as a barber to the guards. One day Louie steals a map, which Harris quickly memorizes.
On board a luxury cruise ship to Germany, Louie along with other U.S. Olympic team members steal mementos and gorge themselves on the free food. When they arrive in Berlin, their Nazi hosts give them a tour of the city.
Summary. Work on the coal barges ends; there aren’t enough ships left in Japan. Louie is on starvation rations, sick, and hungry. The Bird torments him still. One day he forces Louie to hoist up a heavy, wooden beam about six feet long. If Louie lowers his arms, The Bird says, Louie will be shot.
Louie escapes the debris and swims to the surface and into the dazzling daylight. He takes in a deep breath and then vomits all the salt water and fuel he had swallowed. Later, Louie will remember the inexplicable disappearance of the wires as evidence of God’s benevolent intervention into his life.
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On around the tenth day, an albatross lands on the raft. Louie catches the bird and uses the meat as bait to catch a small fish. Eating the fish revives Louie’s and Phi l’s spirit, but Mac remains unchanged. Phil worries that killing a friendly albatross will bring them bad luck.
