The Character Of Unwound In Lev's Unwind

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The characters in Unwind are in conflict not only with their society, but also with themselves Lev experiences significant inner conflict during his transformation, he faces conflicts with his own belief of being unwound and conflict with society of which forced all of this onto him through being unwound. Lev faces having to be unwound and has experienced significant conflict with himself and society. His conflict with society was being involuntarily unwound as his parents would say " Your like will be to serve god and mankind." Lev stuck by this philosophy for his entire short lived life. Lev also experienced conflict with himself until being in the presence of Risa and Connor, Lev was a very single minded person he believed in one thing and

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