"Challenging experiences cannot be overcome without resilience." How do Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud reflect this statement?
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"Maintaining a sense of identity is crucial to resilience." How do Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud reflect this statement?
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In times of adversity an individual's resilience ultimately determines how effectively one can overcome hardships. Lauren Hillenbrand's 2010 biography Unbroken examines the capacity and resilience of an individual to overcome both life-threatening and stressful situations. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's 2007 feature animation, also explores how an individual's emotional and spiritual resilience, helps them to overcome challenging situations that they are put in throughout their life. Despite the difference in settings, both texts reveal the importance of resilience in order to face life's challenges. Challenging experiences cannot be overcome without resilience.
While ultimately an individual's resilience helps one to overcome difficult situations, the support of friends and family does play a role in building this resilience. Lauren Hillenbrand's 2010 biography Unbroken examines the capacity of an individual to overcome both life-threatening and stressful situations. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's 2007 feature animation, also explores how an individual's emotional and spiritual resilience is cultivated by positive interactions with family and religion, helping them to overcome situations that challenge their identity. Despite the difference in settings, both texts reveal the importance of support networks to build resilience which in the end will determine one's ability to face life's challenges.
The support and encouragement of family and friends is paramount in building resilience for an individual's ability to overcome confronting situations. In Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Zamperini, the protagonist of the text, demonstrates the power of an individual's own physical and mental resilience to overcome the strain of the Olympic race. During the Berlin Olympics, Zamperini's lack of confidence, proves a psychological obstacle, until he remembers the advice his brother Pete gave to him as a boy: "a moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory". The emotive language of this memory, motivates Zamperini, to give it his all. He finishes in seventh place, but clocks the fastest last lap in Olympic history. His brother's advice reflects the central themes of survival and resilience: pain is only temporary and does not compare to the glory of prevailing over limitations. Also in Unbroken it is evident that with the support of family, Zamperini was able to endure the mental and physical challenges of running long distances at a high level, this resilience didn't just happen it was built and developed over time. In chapter 2 we le...
