Betrayal

I am shocked beyond belief, Zamperini arrived at a POW camp named Ofuna in Japan. There he was taken into an interrogation room and he met an old friend. I cannot say who he met but it is unbelievable! Louis was betrayed by one of his classmates from school. He left the United States to go to Japan and work with the Japanese military as an inspector of the camps all around Japan and it's occupied territories. The fact of why he committed "treason" still makes me wonder why would he have done that. Here is a question to all of the readers, would you leave your country and work against it even if it meant honoring your family or gaining power or even becoming rich?

The most important line of the chapter

"I knew in my heart that the war-this war- was right. If I took my hatred to support it, to win it, and most important, to get me through it alive, so be it." - Zamperini, 149

This is a very important line of the chapter because at this point of the book, he had been captured at a Japanese occupied island and sent into a P.O.W. camp where he sees where he will be living at for the next few years. The quote means that he believes the war has a soul purpose, it has a cause. He believes it is his duty to fight for it even if it means using hatred and cruel acts, but he is doing it so he can fulfill his duty and survive the harsh reality of war.

Between a rock and a hard place (Predictions)

I was shocked when I read about the plane that was flying near the raft of survivors. Louis and his friends thought that the aircraft would signal in or report the raft in the water. They fired flares and used a mirror to signal the plane. The plane flew at the raft and started to shoot it's machine guns, Louis realized that the aircraft was a Japanese bomber flying on a routine flight. The 3 survivors quickly dived into the water before the plane turned around, suddenly sharks surrounded them and they fought for their lives to beat off the sharks and survive the attacking bomber above. I predict that one of the survivors will die if they are wounded.