Summary Of The Book Unwound

This book series is the story of young Luke Garner who was born in a time that the government controlled the total number of children that were allowed to be born per family. He was the third child born in his family and his existence was illegal. Luke and his family knew the trouble they’ll receive if this secret was revealed. Luke remained hidden majority of his life in his family’s farmhouse attic, hiding from the public.

The government is coming to take you away! Government control is a common dystopian theme, as it is feared greatly by many people on this planet. Some people, such as the residents of North Korea, already are in complete government control and brainwashing. A recurring idea in government control is the government wiping out a certain percentage of people to keep the population down, which is usually the people with less intelligence than average. In Neal Shusterman’s “Unwind” the parents get to choose if they want to get rid of their child between the ages of 13 and 18, but there’s a catch. The “unwind” doesn’t necessarily die, rather his/her body parts are put up for sale, and a bit of the unwind’s consciousness gets put into each part. In Henry Slesar’s “Examination Day” children at the age of twelve

The kids salvation is similar as Trappers. They look to be heroes who are paraded atop the shoulders of the town as the previous team was. They also may look to be successful in football as a way to get out of Odessa.

The novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman is about three teens who are set to be a part of the unwinding society. A significant character in the novel is Connor and he shows his significance through the thought provoking idea of survival. In the novel, Connor shows his survival through three key events. These events are when Connor goes to kidnap Lev to save him from being tithed, when Connor is running from the police and his father in the bus crash and when he takes over the graveyard to help save as many teens as possible from being unwound.

The book I would like to tell you about is called Among the Hidden. The author of this book is Margaret Peterson Haddix. In this book, there is a boy named Luke Garner who has never been able to leave his backyard. He has only been able to quickly peak through blinds for fear of being seen. Until the day the workers started cutting the trees down, Luke was able to experience a little fresh air while rough-housing with his brothers in their isolated backyard farmland. The reason for this is because of the population law. The government believed that there wasn’t enough food to feed the growing population, so they made the law that there is only a maximum of two children allowed in each family. That meant that Luke was an illegal third

The story in Unwind by Neal Shusterman happened after the Second Civil War. During that time period, all the kids who between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, their parents can sign an unwind order for them. For those kids who unwound, their bodies are used as machines by another people. However, the kid’s life doesn't technically end. Connor, Risa and Lev are three main characters in the novel. All of them are unwound by their parents for some reasons. Connor is a sixteen-year-old boy and get kicked out by several schools. His parents signed the unwind order because they did not think that they would be able to control him anymore. Risa is a fifteen-year-old girl, and a very skilled piano player. However, she was unwound because the orphanage thought that she had already reached her full potential. Lev is thirteen-year-old boy; the youngest kid in his family. He was unwound because of the religious believe of his family. All of them believe that they might have a chance to escape and survive if they work as a team. These three characters play an important role in this novel.

Unwind is a book filled with three main characters who are escaping their “fate” of being unwound. Unwinding is a process in which every part of a child between the ages thirteen to eighteen is removed and donated to others in need of a healthy limb or organ. Connor is one of the main characters, he found out that he was going to be unwound because he found a bill his parent’s paid to go to the Bahamas, without him. He decides to rebel against his destiny and runs away from home, encountering some other characters and conflicts along the way.

The dystopian novel Unwholly, the second book in the Unwind series by Neal Shusterman, is a twisted story of a futuristic world where life is not valued in the same way as it is today. When government advertises and pays citizens to make bad choices, it makes the society corrupt and inhumane. One corrupt thing about this society is that parents can choose to ‘Unwind’ their children. Unwinding is when parents can turn their kids over to the government and the government takes the children apart and uses their body parts for different purposes. A possible theme for Unwholly is that by following a corrupt society, people begin to develop selfish behavior.

     Alex Kotlowitz’s book, There are No Children Here, is a story about two boys, Pharoah and Lafeyette Rivers growing in the late 1980’s in Henry Horner, a housing project in Chicago. The boys try to retain their youth while they see constant gang violence, death of close friends, their brother in jail and their dad struggling with a drug addiction.

Now, there’s probably been that one time in your life that you hoped for the best, but the outcome wasn’t the way you wanted it to turn out. Roland, one of the characters in Neal Shusterman’s Unwind, had the same intentions. In fact, Shusterman creates a setting that gets the characters to see what actually were Roland’s intentions. In Chapter 24, the characters are preparing for dinner as Risa goes to wash-up, in the bathroom, which gives Roland the opportunity to go for what he wants. A possible theme for this chapter could be, “Plans don’t always go they way you want them to,”or for life in general LIFE doesn’t always go they way you want it.”

When you think of unwinding, you probably imagine yourself sun tanning and drinking a martini on the beach. You probably see all of your worries disappear and paradise is very nearly near. In the breathtaking novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman, the teens of the world feel anything but relieved when they hear the word. Instead, they envision a world in which they no longer exist. At least, not in the way they used to. Unwind is a novel set in a dystopian society in a future time period, suffering the after effects of the Hartland War. The war was between the Pro-life and Pro-choice sides of society. A compromise was reached post war; it was called unwinding. Unwinding allowed teens to be harvested for all of their body parts. This novel tells the tale of three main teens who are to be sacrificed for unwinding. Risa, Connor and Lev struggle to stay out of sight until their 18th year when they will be considered free citizens. In Unwind, the story makes one question why a society would even consider something as radical and inhumane as unwinding. From it, we can connect to times in our own history when we made less than ideal compromises and evaluate the concept of unwinding as a whole.

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The plot of the novel, Unwholly written by Neal Shusterman, is the continuous version of the novel Unwind. It talks about things that were left mysterious to the readers in Unwind and also follows the plot. Unwholly starts with introducing new characters that will be related to Connor, Risa and Lev. In Unwholly, due to the rule of age 17, parents decide to sent their child or children to harvest camp earlier. Unwholly expresses more about the graveyard under Connor’s control and how he handles it.

In this novel Haddix, The boy name of Luke Garner, is a 13 year old. Luke is a third child for his parents, which means that his is not a loud to live and should be killed by the Police which controls the population. The Population Police is responsible for the law. Families are only to have two children. The third child would be executed by the Police. It was brutal the way the kids would die.

The town turns quickly turns to a frenzy, when all of the younger kids start roaming the streets looking for their parents. The really young kids, between the ages of 1-9 years-old have absolutely no clue whats going on or where their parents are. Some are crying, and they are absolutely terrified.