Unwind ISP Response Journal 1
Unwind – ISP Response Journal #1
In Neal Shusterman’s “Unwind”, three thirteen-year-old children are in a life-or-death situation to escape the ill will of being unwound and to survive until their eighteenth birthday. To set forth with the journey through the three youths’ experiences, the opening chapter acts as an introduction to the concept of being unwound and to the one of the main characters, Conner. Right of the bat, after reading the first few pages, one can interpret that to be unwound is not something one usually would wish or enjoy. Although, after reading through a series of events, the book had caught my interest, the initial chapter didn’t quite fulfill its “duty” of pulling in my attention until I neared the end of it.
This story is set during the future, the time of a Second Civil War, which was fought over reproductive rights. Due to the violent conflicts occurring in the war, many casualties are formed, and to solve this crisis, it was brought up that tithed or unwanted children could be unwound to transplant their organs to various donors. This solution created a problem for the characters in the book and raised a major conflict for them.
There are several characters in this story, some major characters who are present in all events, some minor characters who come and go, and some characters that are in between. These characters include Conner, Risa, Lev, Ariana, Mr.Durkin, Paster Dan, Hannah, Sonia, Roland, Hayden, and Mai. From these the major characters would be Conner, Risa, and Lev. Ariana, Dalton, Paster Dan, Hayden, and Mai would be considered as minor characters, and the rest are somewhere in between.
Conner is troublesome, determined, rough, particularly caring to fellow unwinds, and considered dangerous. He was signed to be unwound because his parents had wanted nothing to do with him anymore; he was too much of a hassle. “…two kids racing across traffic. One kid has the other in a chokehold, and is practically dragging him.”
In Neal Shusterman’s “Unwind”, three thirteen-year-old children are in a life-or-death situation to escape the ill will of being unwound and to survive until their eighteenth birthday. To set forth with the journey through the three youths’ experiences, the opening chapter acts as an introduction to the concept of being unwound and to the one of the main characters, Conner. Right of the bat, after reading the first few pages, one can interpret that to be unwound is not something one usually would wish or enjoy. Although, after reading through a series of events, the book had caught my interest, the initial chapter didn’t quite fulfill its “duty” of pulling in my attention until I neared the end of it.
This story is set during the future, the time of a Second Civil War, which was fought over reproductive rights. Due to the violent conflicts occurring in the war, many casualties are formed, and to solve this crisis, it was brought up that tithed or unwanted children could be unwound to transplant their organs to various donors. This solution created a problem for the characters in the book and raised a major conflict for them.
There are several characters in this story, some major characters who are present in all events, some minor characters who come and go, and some characters that are in between. These characters include Conner, Risa, Lev, Ariana, Mr.Durkin, Paster Dan, Hannah, Sonia, Roland, Hayden, and Mai. From these the major characters would be Conner, Risa, and Lev. Ariana, Dalton, Paster Dan, Hayden, and Mai would be considered as minor characters, and the rest are somewhere in between.
Conner is troublesome, determined, rough, particularly caring to fellow unwinds, and considered dangerous. He was signed to be unwound because his parents had wanted nothing to do with him anymore; he was too much of a hassle. “…two kids racing across traffic. One kid has the other in a chokehold, and is practically dragging him.”