Unwind

You need to have read to Chapter 13 by Thursday.


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//For your first literature circles you will create a general overview of your novel. On this home page please create the following. Remember be creative, use color, images and sound!// 1. Setting- time, place, mood, and environment 2. Character List- make sure to list each main character and include a brief description and quote from the character

Themes: **Time:** Sometime in the future (40 + years) Takes place in unknown city, forest and school Connor, Risa and Lev · 16 years old · Unwind · Trouble maker · Strong minded · Impulsive, brave · Head strong · Guilty conscience "Its time for another split-second desicion. He reaches through the window, pulls up the lock and opens the door." (impulsive/brave) · 15 years old · Unwind · Orphan · Failed pianist but still talented · calm · Survival instinct · Intelligent "she makes the instument sing...and then her left ring finger stumbles on a b-flatt, slipping awkwardly onto a b-natural." (failed pianist but still talented) · Tithe · 13 years old · Wants to be unwound · Wealthy · Doesn’t like Connor and Risa · Unpredictable · religious "thank-you sir, I'm ready for this [to be a tithe]" (tithe/ wants to be unwound/ religious)
 * For your homework you will need to answer the following questions.**
 * 1) You don't know what you have until its gone.
 * Humphrey Dunfee's family unwound him and seriously regretted it and went crazy trying to get him back together. Connor's family is also a example of this because his family regretted unwinding him after his grades improved and he started being mild manner.
 * 1) Never give up
 * when Conner and Risa is being moved to the graveyard in a plane, there is this boy called Diego, who says "i will rather be unwound". He gives up very easily but Conner tries to survive till he becomes 18, and he cannot get unwound anymore.
 * 1) Change isn't always an improvement
 * The whole book is about unwinding, which according to the book is an outcome of the future.As the author talks about unwinding, he shows that it isn't such a good thing, which shows that change isn't always an improvement.
 * 1) Society goes through extremes just to get its way
 * The pro-life and pro-choice activists would not make compromises because they strongly believed in what they were fighting for which meant that no compromises were made and disgusting solutions like unwinding were put into action.
 * Setting Map **
 * Place:** United States of America
 * Mood:** Desperate, scared and frantic
 * Environment:** Urban, organized
 * Characters **
 * Connor **
 * Risa **
 * Lev **



Respons to Unwind Questions 1 (Oda's): • How would you feel if you discovered you were going to be unwound? What would you do? If you didn’t want to go along, but couldn’t run away like Connor and the others in the novel, what other options might you have?

I would have felt miserable if I discovered that I was going to be unwound. I would have wondered why for a long time, and had wished all time that I’d done better. I would have tried to run away, so that I was still able to stay alive. I would have run away to a place I thought felt safe- a forest, where no one else were, or if my grandparents were still alive, I would have told them that my parents had been killed in a car accident and I had to stay with them until I was eighteen. If that was not possible, I’d gone on the buss, but I’d given the bus driver money, so that he drove the bus I was sitting on to somewhere safe instead. If I didn’t have money, I’d planned with the other kids that we were going to take over the bus, leave the bus driver somewhere in the forest, and we had gone somewhere safe where there didn’t live a lot of people, and we’d lived there until we were 18 years old.

• How would you feel if you were in an accident, or had a rare disease, and you could only be cured if your damaged organs were replaced by parts taken from unwound teens? What would you choose to do? What if you were certain to die if you refused the parts? What if it wasn’t you, but someone you loved (a parent, a sibling) who was in an accident? Would your answer be different?

If that had happened to me, I would have refused to replace my organs. It would have been so weird if a part of me was not me, but a teenager’s instead. That would have made me think I was a murder, since this kid was only killed because someone else might seem to need his or her organs, and I couldn’t have bear the thought. Then I would rather have died than taking the organ(s). If it was someone I loved, I’d thought more about it. It depends at the age- if he or she is certain going to die soon anyway, I wouldn’t have made them take the organ. However, if he or she was still young, let’s say less than eighteen, I would have told them to take it. After all, the kid is already dead- what can you do? You can’t bring him or her back alive again.

• While being transported to possible safety, some of the kids on the run, considering their fate, wonder, “Would it be better to die or be unwound?” If given the choice, which would you choose? Why?

I think that I would have chosen to be unwound. My life would be awkward- I would have been many different people, but not fully been any of them. However, if I’d died, I maybe wouldn’t have had any life at all. Also, when someone’s unwound, they help other people to survive- then it is better that I help a few people to survive, than I just die and don’t help anybody at all. Therefore, I would rather have been unwound than to die.