The beginning

The book starts off very simple with a small boy sitting in his backyard watching a huge blimp fly over his house. This blimp was called the Zeppelin.                                             The Zeppelin on the ground.Google Images

It was on a voyage around the world. The author is doing a lot of foreshadowing in this part of the book. This boy, Louis Zamperini, would never dream of flying a plane, but he would spend a lot of time in one during the middle part of his life. This machine would also make him look death straight in the eye.