Many people seem to forget that life and death go hand in hand. Whenever people think of life they think of a newborn child, rebirth, and everything good in the world. When the word death is brought up there are feelings of sorrow, despair, anger, and nothingness. Surprisingly enough life and death not only plays a major role on earth but also in the political atmosphere. One of the Supreme Courts’ major issues and something they seem to visit annually is abortion rights which is the most controversial life or death topic of all. Neal Shustermans’ novel “Unwind” addresses the topic of abortion well making both sides, pro-life and pro-choice equally justifiable. Although in the book abortion may seem completely morbid in the year 2017 one would
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On the surface the book may seem like any other YA book written by some adult who knows the exact formula in order to make their book popular. However, when one gets farther and farther into the story the resemblance of the question “to unwind or not to unwind” which plagues many of the adults in book is unquestionably the same as the question of wether or not to abort or if abortion should be legal. In a painfully realistic and gruesome way Shusterman writes about what abortion is or going to be in the future and goes into detail of how the children are effected (ninertimes). Unwind is brilliantly written and can make the reader feel things and question facts that they may have accepted …show more content…
The book talks about a war that was fought between two groups the Pro-lifers and Pro-choicers. Each one believed that their view on abortion was better and this cause such a big divide between the two groups that it started the second civil war in the US. Both parties fought each other until the President stepped in and decided to have a mixture of both pro life and pro choice beliefs. The President ruled that a mother was not allowed to abort a child during her pregnancy but after her child is born she is allowed to get her child aborted or unwound. Both parties agreed on this conclusion and it became the law thus creating harvest camps and a norm of child organ and cell
On the surface the book may seem like any other YA book written by some adult who knows the exact formula in order to make their book popular. However, when one gets farther and farther into the story the resemblance of the question “to unwind or not to unwind” which plagues many of the adults in book is unquestionably the same as the question of wether or not to abort or if abortion should be legal. In a painfully realistic and gruesome way Shusterman writes about what abortion is or going to be in the future and goes into detail of how the children are effected (ninertimes). Unwind is brilliantly written and can make the reader feel things and question facts that they may have accepted …show more content…
The book talks about a war that was fought between two groups the Pro-lifers and Pro-choicers. Each one believed that their view on abortion was better and this cause such a big divide between the two groups that it started the second civil war in the US. Both parties fought each other until the President stepped in and decided to have a mixture of both pro life and pro choice beliefs. The President ruled that a mother was not allowed to abort a child during her pregnancy but after her child is born she is allowed to get her child aborted or unwound. Both parties agreed on this conclusion and it became the law thus creating harvest camps and a norm of child organ and cell