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Louie realizes that if he registers before the draft kicks in, he can pick his division. He feels drawn towards the sky and joins the Air Corps. He quickly drops out because flying makes him nervous and nauseous, and returns to his work as a movie extra.
At the end of Chapter Twenty-Two, Louie leaves this world and enters a new, unknown one. Hillenbrand effectively evokes the feeling of suspense and fear that would have accompanied such news for Louie and others. While Ofuna was far from warm and comfortable, Louie knew how to navigate it.
Why does Louie forgive the Bird? How do Louie and Phil Survive on the raft after the crash? Does the war ruin Louie’s abilities as a runner? What happens to the POWs in Ofuna, Omori, and Naoetsu?
The memory motivates Louie, giving him the will to run as hard as he can for the last lap. Louie finishes in seventh place, but clocks the fastest last lap in Olympic history. After the race, a Nazi official says that Adolf Hitler would like to meet him.
When not trying to befriend the prisoners, he would try to break any of them who defied him. This desire for power made him single out Louie, a naturally defiant famous Olympian, for torture. Louie would become Watanabe’s favorite victim.
For an emaciated, war-ravaged, sick, starved man like Louie, even getting the beam above his head would seem unlikely. Yet there, in the middle of figurative hell, a minor miracle unfolds. With an almost supernatural inner strength, Louie towers over the task, keeping the beam aloft for 37 minutes.
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The ropes symbolize the memories and the hatred that tie Louie down, imprisoning him in the past. Louie’s desire for a revenge that he imagines will give him back his dignity and free him from what the Bird did to him controls him even in sleep, and endangers his family.
