The Beam Theme

Continuing more on what Blake said about the beam... holding the six foot beam over your head for 37 minutes in a POW camp is more than impressive. This scene is the face of an overall theme Louie experiences throughout the book. Life is never going to be easy, and you cannot let things get in your way of what needs to be accomplished even when their is adversity in your path. Louie's life takes this to the extreme, but still shows that if you are going so succeed in life, you cannot fall after a few punches and you have to fight until the end.