![]() This is an interesting departure for her, and effective, because it forces the reader to make the judgment that Hillenbrand won’t make. Is Louie’s vision a hallucination brought on by deprivation? Is it an actual, angelic appearance sent to strengthen the castaways’ faith? Hillenbrand clearly doesn’t want to make a judgment one way or the other. This whole sequence reads more like a recitation of data than the intimate storytelling style she’s displayed up to this point. Writing about Louie’s vision, though, Hillenbrand-as-the-biographer draws back, aloof. For example, when she relates statistics about the war, moments in battle, problems with government bureaucracies, and the cruel taskmasters in the POW camps, she expresses her opinions in no uncertain terms. Up to this point and later in the biography, Hillenbrand freely colors events with her opinions about them. The most unique aspect of Louie’s vision of “singing in the clouds” is the way in which Hillenbrand retells this sequence of events. On July 13, 1943, the 46th day adrift on the ocean, Louie and Phil finally see an island. On the 40th day, Louie inexplicably hears angelic singing and sees 21 human figures floating in a bright cloud above. After more than a month in the rafts, Mac dies and is buried at sea. Afterward, Louie devises a scheme for catching and killing sharks, then eating their livers for nourishment. Mac finally saves Louie by whacking the sharks with an oar. Louie fights off the shark attack, but other sharks keep coming. Part V Chapter 36: The Body on the MountainĪfter four weeks at sea, a shark leaps out of the water and tries to bite off Louie’s upper body.Part IV Chapter 32: Cascades of Pink Peaches.Part IV Chapter 29: Two Hundred and Twenty Punches.Part IV Chapter 20: Farting for Hirohito.Part IV Chapter 19: Two Hundred Silent Men.Part IV Chapter 18: A Dead Body Breathing.MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio y Mac Pro. Part III Chapter 16: Singing in the Clouds Los ordenadores de mesa y portátiles Mac más avanzados.Part III Chapter 15: Sharks and Bullets.Part II Chapter 11: “Nobody’s Going to Live Through This”.Part II Chapter 9: Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes. ![]() Part II Chapter 8: “Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was”. ![]()
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