The book Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a young authors novel that takes place in the future. The the begging of the book there is a page titled “The Bill of Life” (Shusterman, 2007,p. np), that I am going to be referencing in the following sentences. The novel consists of a time where there has been another civil war in our country that was known as “The Heartland War” (p. np). This war was between pro life and pro choice and the of this war came a “Bill of Life” (p. np), which states “that human life may not be touched form the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen” (p. np). The bill also states that “between the ages of thirteen and eighteen a parent can retroactively abort their child, on the condition that the child’s
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Conner feels betrayed by his parents because as the author puts it “His parents signed the order—it’s a done deal” (p. 4). The order his parents signed is the order to have him …show more content…
All three of them meet on an Interstate where they become a crew on the run as unwinds, even though not all three are wanting to run away. The stetting is always changing as the kids are on the run, it goes through a school, a pawn shop, an old ladies house, and they end up in Arizona at a graveyard of old airplanes. They inevitably end up at Happy Jacks Harvest Camp in Happy Jacks, Arizona, before being able to live without being unwound, but not unchanged. The end of the novel setting has Conner and Risa back at the graveyard trying to help other unwinds make it to their seventeenth birthday and not be unwound, while Lev is in a jail for saving all three of them.
The plot of the story is in a country that has decided that a life can be taken at the age of thirteen, three people meet in a bizarre circumstance and become the driving force behind one another in the fight to stay alive. If the three can make it to their eighteenth birthdays, they will be unharmed, but in their journey from Ohio to Arizona this task seems impossible. On the run and always inches from being caught, they find a way to stick together, even when far apart, and find a way to stay alive against all
Conner feels betrayed by his parents because as the author puts it “His parents signed the order—it’s a done deal” (p. 4). The order his parents signed is the order to have him …show more content…
All three of them meet on an Interstate where they become a crew on the run as unwinds, even though not all three are wanting to run away. The stetting is always changing as the kids are on the run, it goes through a school, a pawn shop, an old ladies house, and they end up in Arizona at a graveyard of old airplanes. They inevitably end up at Happy Jacks Harvest Camp in Happy Jacks, Arizona, before being able to live without being unwound, but not unchanged. The end of the novel setting has Conner and Risa back at the graveyard trying to help other unwinds make it to their seventeenth birthday and not be unwound, while Lev is in a jail for saving all three of them.
The plot of the story is in a country that has decided that a life can be taken at the age of thirteen, three people meet in a bizarre circumstance and become the driving force behind one another in the fight to stay alive. If the three can make it to their eighteenth birthdays, they will be unharmed, but in their journey from Ohio to Arizona this task seems impossible. On the run and always inches from being caught, they find a way to stick together, even when far apart, and find a way to stay alive against all