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Ballard
English/ 2nd Period
10/17/17
Unwind Analysis “In a perfect world all mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved” (Shusterman chapter 14).Unfortunately, the world that Neal Shusterman depicts in Unwind is not perfect. It is dystopian fiction that depicts a world where children from the ages of 13 to 18 can be dissected and dismembered to have their body parts donated in a process called unwinding. The story takes place in the future in the United States after a civil war known as the Heartland War. In Unwind, Shusterman uses theme, characters, setting, point of view, as well as symbolism to illustrate the result of abandoning people through unwinding, storking, and tithing. …show more content…
Connor is a round, dynamic character. When the novel opens up, Connor is a troubled teenager who cannot control his anger and he fights all the time. He changes at the end of the novel because as Shusterman says in chapter 34,“But on the other hand, he’s changing. He’s been getting into less fights.” Connor learned to use his head and to think before he acted and he became a leader. The antagonist of the novel is Roland. He is a very muscular and manipulative character who uses other people for his personal gain. He is a round, static character. When we are first introduced to Roland, he is a power hungry teenager who is doing everything he can to make other people follow him. He is a static character because as shusterman says in chapter 59, “He swallows hard. ‘I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you.’” At the end of the novel, Roland still had hate and never …show more content…
“Connor takes a deep breath and releases it along with his tension. At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope”(Shusterman chapter 69). At the end of the story, Connor becomes the leader of the unwinds and uses hope to fuel his mission of ending unwinding. The symbol used in the novel is the Akron AWOL. “They’re all saying the Akron AWOL is this big boeuf superhero”(Shusterman chapter 22). The Akron AWOL is the unwind who took on the government and juvey cops all by himself to free the unwinds. He is a legend to the unwinds and he gives them hope. The unwinds can look to him and see in themselves that they are still good and that they can fight to make a difference. Unwind has many truths sprinkle throughout the novel. The main ones are that people are not worthless and that their lives should be fought for, and that hope can change any circumstance from bad to good. The characters in the book like Connor show us that even though the world may see others as worthless, those people can turn out to be extraordinary. Unwind used many literary devices to show that people should not be overlooked or simply thrown away because they do not fit into the way you view the world should
Ballard
English/ 2nd Period
10/17/17
Unwind Analysis “In a perfect world all mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved” (Shusterman chapter 14).Unfortunately, the world that Neal Shusterman depicts in Unwind is not perfect. It is dystopian fiction that depicts a world where children from the ages of 13 to 18 can be dissected and dismembered to have their body parts donated in a process called unwinding. The story takes place in the future in the United States after a civil war known as the Heartland War. In Unwind, Shusterman uses theme, characters, setting, point of view, as well as symbolism to illustrate the result of abandoning people through unwinding, storking, and tithing. …show more content…
Connor is a round, dynamic character. When the novel opens up, Connor is a troubled teenager who cannot control his anger and he fights all the time. He changes at the end of the novel because as Shusterman says in chapter 34,“But on the other hand, he’s changing. He’s been getting into less fights.” Connor learned to use his head and to think before he acted and he became a leader. The antagonist of the novel is Roland. He is a very muscular and manipulative character who uses other people for his personal gain. He is a round, static character. When we are first introduced to Roland, he is a power hungry teenager who is doing everything he can to make other people follow him. He is a static character because as shusterman says in chapter 59, “He swallows hard. ‘I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you.’” At the end of the novel, Roland still had hate and never …show more content…
“Connor takes a deep breath and releases it along with his tension. At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope”(Shusterman chapter 69). At the end of the story, Connor becomes the leader of the unwinds and uses hope to fuel his mission of ending unwinding. The symbol used in the novel is the Akron AWOL. “They’re all saying the Akron AWOL is this big boeuf superhero”(Shusterman chapter 22). The Akron AWOL is the unwind who took on the government and juvey cops all by himself to free the unwinds. He is a legend to the unwinds and he gives them hope. The unwinds can look to him and see in themselves that they are still good and that they can fight to make a difference. Unwind has many truths sprinkle throughout the novel. The main ones are that people are not worthless and that their lives should be fought for, and that hope can change any circumstance from bad to good. The characters in the book like Connor show us that even though the world may see others as worthless, those people can turn out to be extraordinary. Unwind used many literary devices to show that people should not be overlooked or simply thrown away because they do not fit into the way you view the world should