The Role Of Abortion In Unwind

In the novel Unwind, Neal Shusterman shows his outlook on today’s society with the disagreement on the debate of abortion. Shusterman portrays the novel after a second civil war, in which brought the process of unwinding, which is a form of retroactive abortion that results in the dismembering of children. This form of retroactive abortion was seen to be the only solution to keep peace to the nation, which only created a dystopia type of society which can be seen in the Hunger Games. This novel can relate to the Hunger Games due with the process of children being offered to be sacrificed in the society to please adults. Also connecting the ideas from Joseph Campbell and even tying in factors from the Harry Potter series. The point of the novel …show more content…
In both books the authors involve teenagers between a certain age span to be killed off, in Unwind we see this with the age span of 13-18 when a child is allowed to be unwound and in the Hunger Games, the age span is 12-18 when they are allowed into the lottery for the games. In Hunger Games and Unwind there is a sense of murdering that is happening, in Unwind if you are being unwound you are being murdered by the government. If you get chosen in the lottery in the Hunger Games you have to kill others in order to survive. Another example would be the weird customs shown in both novels, in Unwind that it is illegal to have an abortion but you are allowed to sign your child up to be unwound. Then in the Hunger Games they have big televisions or computers that allow for people to watch the Games, but in district 12 they do not have access to these things. We also see that in these dystopian novels, characters are added to help the main character storyline be more opened up. In the Hunger Games, Peeta is brought in and we see more of Katniss emotions. Then in Unwind, Risa and Levi are introduced and we get a better insight of Connor and how he reacts with people around his