Have you ever had to do something that you didn’t want to do? Louie Zamperini and Minè Okubo have had to do just that, in their journeys through life. Louie was a young adult that loved to run and compete in competitions. Then when Louie joined the Army Air Corps. In November 1941, he arrived at a flight school in Houston. They were making him a bombardier. He had to go to the war in Japan. Minè was a first generation Japanese-American(Nisei). She was an artist and she loved her family very much that she made a painting about her mother after she passed. When louie finally came back from the war in Japan he didn’t recover very well, he became an alcoholic and basically avoided his wife and his baby girl. Minè on the other hand was not like that she moved in …show more content…
The box itself was nothing; the theft, a tiny act of defiance, was everything”(Hillenbrand 204). They stole something even though they knew they might be caught, and the POW’s thought just a tiny act of defiance was good enough for them. Even so as, One of his friends/POW was being nice since other people were not. “A captive gave him a tiny book he’d made from rice paste flattened into pages”(Hillenbrand 155). Some of the people were trying to be nicer than other people are there by giving Louie a book. She might have thought that her family couldn’t bring together that much money for her to go the college.“Mine’ thought about applying to the University of California at Berkeley, but she worried that her family would not be able to afford it. She applied anyway”(”(The life of Mine’ Okubo 1).She thought about applying but, she knew that her family couldn't afford for her to go there. Louie and Mine’ were trying their best to resist being invisible to other people when they were trying to make them feel like they don’t fit in. Above all, the POWs were made to feel invisible but they got through life resisting