Tom Neal

The book Unwind by Neal Shusterman was a great book with amazing characters. The books main character, Connor, is faced with being unwound. To be unwound is to be surgically divided into many parts. These parts are to be given to people in need of these parts. Parents can choose to unwind their kids as soon as they turn twelve, but they can’t unwind their children after they turn eighteen. The law says that the children must still be alive though, so according to the government unwinds are…

Narrative- On 13Feb17 at 1306 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was asked to speak with Cristin Burmayer in reference to her daughter, Sara Evans, skipping school on a regular basis recently. Cristin informed me she wished for Sara to be placed at Evergreen Shelter in Bemidji as Sara once again skipped school in Walker. Cristin stated she had to depart this morning for work before Sara was to get a ride to school from her friend, Madison Zismer. Later in the morning, Cristin found out from the school…

Leaders of the Black Arts Movement believed that in order for change to occur, African-Americans would need to stand up for themselves and create a separate Black culture. Larry Neal explores this objective in depth, in his piece, The Black Arts Movement. Gil Scott-Heron further promotes the message in his famous poem, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. As evidenced in both of these works, Black culture would need to overtake White culture in order to overturn the oppressive society of the…

The Importance of Friendship Friendship is, by definition, a relationship between two friends. Some believe that friendships are a necessity for human life. Joseph Conrad was a man who grew up not having many friends. As a young child he had missed school quite a bit from illnesses (Kathleen Wilson 200). This made it hard to have close relationships with other children. He did however gain a love for literature and the sea from his father at a young age (www.notablebiographies.com). This is…

In the years following the dramatic events of the Second World War, America went through several social upheavals. The first change came when GI’s returned from the battlefield, wanting to go back to the normal life they had previously upheld. This need for a return to traditional gender and societal roles led to an appraisal of mass conformism and to make matters worse, a new suburban class was on the rise. Around the same time, literary and cultural activists broke the mold of rampant…

J.R.R. Tolkien one of the well-known English writer and poet who once stated, “Not all those who wander are lost”, claims that people who wander are not lost, in reality, they are curious individuals who are true life seekers. In other words, people who wander around the world, like travel writers are not astray, instead they are people who are motivated to learn and experience the world from their own eyes. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, is one of the well-known novels written in 1951 but later…

Unwind Unwind written by Neal Shusterman and published in 2007, has 335 pages and is a Biopunk, Utopian and dystopian fiction. Unwind is the first book in the four book series including Unwholly, Unsouled, and Undivided also a mini book that goes along with the series Unstrung. Connor is an independent, hasty sixteen year old. His tendency to act without intuition gives him a rough appeal additionally gets him into a considerable amount of trouble. His parents have decided to have him unwound.…

Jack Kerouac: Disillusionment of American Youth and the Beat Generation In the 1950’s American youth was victimized for their own social and spontaneous pleasure. Teens were not allowed to do much of what they wanted and were restricted of nearly everything. This book shows the struggle between teens trying to express who they are and the restrictions given by society. The novel, On the Road by Jack Kerouac portrays the disillusionment of American youth which was then a major contribution to…

included authors who wrote many great essay’s, short stories, and poems. Although this starting group was small, they had an incredible impact on literature. The four people who are the “founders” of this movement are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal…

“Unwholly” by Neal Shusterman this is the second book in the “Unwind” series. The series include Unwind, Unwholly, Unsouled, Undivided, Unbound, and Unstrung these books are science fiction. If you like to read books that are going to make you want to read more these are the kind of books you should read. The main characters in this story are Connor, Lev, Risa, Starkey, and Miracolina. After the first book unwind Connor becomes the leader of the graveyard where they rescue kids from being…