Summary Of Unwind By Neal Shusterman

Unwind, by Neal Shusterman, is a thrilling new take on science fiction that will truly make you think about our society today. In the story, the worldwide argument of pro-life and pro-choice has finally come to an end, but the compromise is chilling. A set of constitutional amendments known as the “Bill of Life” has been past stating that once a child reaches the age of thirteen through eighteen, their parents can choose to “unwind” them. The process of unwinding is quite simple; a child is dissected and all of his/her body parts are used for people in need of transplants all around the world.

One thing that I really loved about this book is the author’s intriguing use of point of view to tell this eerie story, which is through the views of several children who have been handed their fate of unwinding. The main characters, Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward, and Lev Calder, are three children who have found themselves running from their fate, but their perspectives on this fate are each completely different, which makes it all the more interesting, and kept me hooked. One thing that I found crazy is that when I very first started reading the book, the world that this story takes place in seemed so ridiculous and out there, like that could never happen. But the farther along I read in the book, the more I started understanding the different perspectives of different people, and the less crazy the thought seemed. It sounds like a terrible
Let's face it, this story is really creepy, and it could have been written in a really violent way, but there is really no blood or guts kind of violence; which makes it all the more eerie. I read one of the most scary, creepy, chilling scenes that I have ever read, and it wasn't really all that gory; Shusterman just wrote it in such a way that sent shivers down my spine without mentioning violence or a single drop of