Lev's Transformation In Unwind

Every character in "Unwind" grows from the beginning of the story to the end. Their personality changes due to confrontation. Throughout the novel, Lev changes because of what he was born to do.

In the beginning of the novel, Lev is having his tithing party because he turned thirteen and he is going to sacrifice himself to God. Lev was born to be given back to God for the family. Everyone was excited for him, including himself. Lev's brother, Marcus, asked him "What do you think of all this?" Lev says, "It's great." It is amazing. Lev says, "I'm having the time of my life." Then Marcus said, "Damn right! The time of your life! Gotta wrap up all those life events, all those parties, into one-birthday's, wedding, funeral." His entire life he
Lev is in a group with Cleaver, Mai, and Blaine. Lev thinks about his parents. He thinks about what they planned to do to him, and how they made him actually want it. Cleaver asked him, "How much do you hate them?" Lev says, " Totally and completely." " And how much do you want the people who would take parts of you and make them parts of themselves?" Lev says again, "Totally and completely." "Lev is amazed by the depth of his own fury-but he's becoming less and less frightened of it. He tells himself it's a good thing." They have a plan to volunteer for the job in Alaska to work in the oil pipelines because they believe in randomness. They believe in forces of nature-and they are forces of nature. He became destructive to prove that
All of them get caught on purpose and go to Happy Jacks Harvest Camp. Lev is wearing his tithing whites, while the others don't because they are the terribles. He has to wear the whites because he was originally being tithed. When Lev, Mai, and Blaine were in Alaska they had an explosive compound transfused to replace their blood. They planned to blow up the camp because it is inhumane what they are doing to the people there. Blaine went off by accident then Mai, but Lev didn't. "He wants to. He needs to. But he can't." He realized that no matter how angry he was at his parents he couldn't do it. He went into the collapsed chop shop and saved Connor along with others that could before he could have went