Examination Day And Unwind Analysis

The moment I started to read Examination Day, I knew there would be a twist in the story because of the way twelve-year-old Dick’s parents behaved. His parents were apprehensive the whole time, and if they had actually thought Dick would pass, they wouldn’t have acted so worried. When the mother told Dick that it was a “government exam”, I made a connection with Unwind, since both stories were built off the government. Unwind, a story about unwanted children who are brought to a place for organ donation, is entirely based on the government. Kids who got in trouble a lot, or were thought of as a “waste of space” by their parents, are chosen by the government to get their organs separated and donated. Some kids were chosen, and they ran away, not wanting to be unwound. This is what Connor and Risa chose to do. They weren’t willing to give up their lives, and as it turned out, they were both smart, and quick thinkers. Sometimes the government made the wrong choice about who was smart.
Lev on the other hand, was a strange kid. He shocked me, because if I …show more content…
Kids who are too smart, which was proven by the government examination that was given to kids when they turned twelve, were killed because they might overthrow the government. Their intelligence was a threat to them. This was proven by Dick’s dad. Dick had asked his dad: “Why did it have to rain today? Why couldn’t it rain tomorrow?”. Dick’s dad replied saying “Because it just did, that’s all. Rain makes the grass grow.” This was a clear sign that Dick’s father was either being nonchalant, or he wasn’t too intelligent. They killed the smart people, so the people who “passed” the exam weren’t all too bright. Dick asked another brainy question, which had to do with the reason the grass was green. The father told him that nobody knew the answer. Obviously this was false, because scientists had researched much more complex