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Unwind Dbq

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“Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed” (Gordon B. Hinckley). Neil Shusterman wrote a book called Unwind and it shows how life is valuable to the people in that society because many teenagers, from ages thirteen to seventeen, are getting unwound. Unwinding was an idea to get rid of unwanted children, but not actually ending their lives. The idea was created to scare both sides so they would be reasonable during the war, but they had continued with the idea and the Bill of Life was signed. The outcome was when unwinding went into-effect, and the Heartland War ended. Unwinding was an iniquitous act to begin with, but it could not be stopped. The generation of teens in that society did not deserve it because they did …show more content…

The first example is how noise levels affect children. “Noise levels also indirectly influence children’s cognitive development via their effect on the adults and teachers who interact with children.” (Source F). Other people do not think noise can affect children but in some cases it can. The next example also deals with loud noise but it goes into depth about the things that happen in the body. “Children exposed to chronic loud noise also experience a rise in blood pressure and stress hormones. And children as young as four are less motivated to perform on challenging language and pre-reading tasks under conditions of exposure to chronic noises” (Source F). This shows how noise levels can affect things like stress hormones which can make the child act differently then they normally would. In the book Unwind, Roland changes from the beginning of the book to the end. “Like Connor, Roland got into fights at school…That’s not what did him in, thought. Roland had beaten up his stepfather for beating his mom…” (Shusterman 99). “Roland looks at the hand that came so close to taking Connor’s life. He wasn’t able to go through with it-and he seems just as surprised as Connor” (Shusterman 279). Even though Roland was unwound, he has changed completely. Anyone who has read the book would have expected Connor to die because Roland is capable of killing him. In the end, Roland did not kill Connor because he is not the same person he was from the beginning of the book. Another example from the book is when Pastor Dan tells Lev that he is not responsible for what he has done or almost done. “‘You may be responsible for your actions,’ Pastor Dan says… ‘That was my fault-and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe.” (Shusterman 328). Pastor Dan explains to Lev that the people around him have caused him to become what he was, a clapper. The examples

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