Unwind Book Report

Picture yourself being a teenager who lives in a dangerous environment, and going through depression with an abusive parents. What would you do? Are you going to join the gang environment or find solution to survive? Well if you are not able to answer this question, and going through the same situation. Therefore, I highly recommend for you to read a book titled, "Unchained", by L.B tillit, this book might change your life or the way you view the world.

And "Cy is the salmon and that police car is the bear" comparing both of them to a predator/prey relationship meaning that CyFi is the salmon and the police is the bear and bears eat salmon. Similes there are tons and tons of examples of similes in Unwind. For instance, "like a master chess player, every move Roland makes has a purpose" referencing to a master chess player meaning that every move a chess player would make in the game every move would count to win the game. Another simile is " the tithes at happy jack are like first class passengers on the Titanic" meaning that the church tax collectors at the happy jack harvest camp where they sent the unwounded people to be unwind are like the first class passengers on the titanic. In conclusion, Shusterman demonstrates that if you want to be free you have to fight for your freedom. Shusterman effectively used metaphors/similes and imagery to write the

The book Unwind by Neal Shusterman was about a future dystopian society that unwinds, or dismembers, teenagers between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. The act of unwinding leads to many of the unwinds to contemplate what life actually is and who they are in life. This is something I liked from the book; I like how Shusterman portrayed the thoughts of the many unwinds and how he was able to connect how they felt with how teenagers today feel. Connor Lassiter is paired with other boys in a crate to travel to the Graveyard, leading to the conversation of whether souls exist and how they work:

“He gave up drinking and smoking.” Louie did exactly this, because he knew the potential he had in running, and wanted to reach that potential. Louie is the main character in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Almost the whole story revolves around him, and his magnificent life. Louie has grown from being a very troubled young boy, to being a very mature, giving, and humble young man.

The novel, Unwind by Neal Shusterman, is a dystopian novel set in a world where . Sixteen year-old Connor Lassiter gets his life completely turned around when he discovers that his parents have signed a contract that states that he can be ‘unwound’. Being unwound in this futuristic world, is a form of abortion for teenagers aged thirteen to eighteen, where their body parts are harvested until someone needs them, yet still stay alive. Connor runs away from home and manages to disappear for one day until he is tracked down by the police and his father on a busy highway. Full of adrenaline and fear, Connor grabs the nearest person to him to use as a hostage and as a shield against the onslaught of sedatives the police are firing, Levi

I am writing this proposal to inform you and The U.S Department of Health and Human Services about some of the negative aspects that happen in the fast food industry. Chew On This, by Eric Schlosser was written in 2006. This book is about many things that happens behind the doors of the fast food industry. For example it talks about what can happen to people that eat a lot of fast food. What chemicals the food has and how it is made.

In the world of Fahrenheit 451, the absence of books and therefore lack of academic knowledge affects the social aspect of their community immensely. Contradictory thinking involves taking two opposing sides of an argument and considering the pros and cons of each side. This thought process is what shapes our everyday lives. The problem with the people within the novel is that the government has raised them to have answers to choices already given to them. They grow up being given information that they are told is the only right answer, and these people are given no room to think about whether it actually is or not. In the novel on page 80 Faber says, “The televisor is ‘real.’ It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and

The book Unwind, written by Neal Shusterman, is about three teens who are going to be unwound. Being unwound means going into a different form of living where all of a person’s body parts are unattached from them and given to other patients in need. If a kid is older than thirteen but younger than eighteen, their parents can sign an unwind order to have them unwound. The parents might do this if their child is becoming a problem for them or they just think it’s the right thing for them. These three teens do everything they can to help save themselves and all of the other unwinds from this terrible thing that is about to happen to them all.

Desmond, Dana, and Diamond's mother (Niaera) using cocaine, pills (unknown) and weed. Niaera used the drugs in front of the children. Niaera takes the children to a trapped house. A trapped home is when drug addict used drugs and buys the drugs. It is unknown who is the drug addict in the trapped house. The children are exposed to it all. The children have access to the drugs. It is unknown if the drugs are being manufactured in the home. It is unknown if drugs are sold in the home. Niaera hit Dana's in the face on her left side, which begun bleeding. It is unknown when this occurred. Dana was not taken to the doctor. Dana's grandmother (Tracey) has the blooding clothes. Dana came to Tracey's home with the blooding clothes

Defined by the book, Unwind by Neal Shusterman, “Unwinding”, is when a parent chooses to retroactively “abort” a child, on the condition that the child's life isn't “technically” ended. This is a process by which a child is both terminated and also kept alive. Conner, Risa and Levi are just kids, who have done nothing but live their lives and ended up getting punished for it. They are set up to be unwound or in Levi's case, tithed.

This book is about three kids, Connor, Risa, and Lev who are on the run. In the future, the United States will allow parents to unwind their kids if they don’t want them anymore or can’t afford a child anymore. Kids could be unwound between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. Or parents will have a baby just so when they turn thirteen they could be unwound that is called tithe kids. The unwanted kids go to a place called Harvest camp. When kids are unwound they stay in the harvest camp until their bodies are surgically taken apart and all of their organs are used in other people’s bodies. According to the United States, the kids that are unfortunately get unwound and are technically not dead, they’re “living in a divided state.” But Connor,

Once he wakes up, he and Alec go back to the destroyed Berg and discover a workpad. They find a GPS with the location of their enemies (the men that were shooting at them) which would lead them straight toward them. They decided to go their settlement first. As they reunite with Trina, she leads them to Darnell. Darnell was beng kept in a small shaft where he was going crazy. He kept repeating “My head”. He then started to scream and kepting banging his head on the wall until he died. Mark started to discuss to his friends about the virus and its deadly aspects. They talked how quickly it could spread from person to person. The group decided to go to the shack and stock on supplies. As they were packing, Misty says that her head started to hurt and that it felt like “bugs are eating ather brain”. The Toad refused to leave her and stayed behing as the rest of the group moved on. The group spent a few nights a few miles away from the village. Mark started to dream again, but his time it was about three men trying to hurt Trina and himself leading them to be rescued by Alec. When Mark wakes up they continued their journey. Later the Toad joins them. He explained that he stayed with Misty untill she died. He had been with her enough time to catch the Flare. He said he had put Misty out of her misery. The Toad had come back looking and sounding insane. Alec, being a veteran, drags the Toad to the forest and kills him.

The blacksuits tell Alex and them to get on the boat with one of the other blacksuits. The blacksuit that was driving the boat took them to Alfred Furnaces Island. Here they find different creatures that they never even thought or heard of. One of these creatures was called a labarynth and that is some sort of water creature that takes out huge ships and eats people. Once they get to the island there is a castle on it. Frnace did not allow any body to come into the castle but Alex. Once he got to furnace, he agreed to take furnaces place as the commander of furnaces army. Once he got all the power he killed off the whole army by letting them remember who they once were and they just fell over

Next, Thomas tries to gain the trust of the gladers but things get interesting. Alby and Minho go out to look at the dead griever when he encounters Gally, he says that he knows Thomas too and he better watch his back. Gally hasn’t liked Thomas since he arrived at the maze, but it didn’t bother Thomas. After going and trying to work at the meat slaughterhouse, Newt comes over and starts talking about how Alby and Minho aren’t back yet and thinks they are dead. It is just a few minutes left and Thomas sees Minho carrying Alby who got stung by the “dead” griever. Thomas going against Newt screaming after him to not go but he does anyway breaking rule number one, not going into the maze. He meets Minho in the maze and Minho starts to give up when he starts to hear the grievers, by Thomas carries Alby up the wall inch by inch until he is about 30 feet into the air. He sees his first nasty griever and it starts to climb up the wall after Thomas and misses Alby. Thomas starts

The literary elements, character, conflict and narrative perspective, play a large role in expressing the major overall theme of importance of life in Shusterman’s novel “Unwind”. The evolution to the life or death situations that occurs in one of the main characters, Connor, the major conflict between person vs society and the minor conflicts between moral vs. law and the decision to the novel in third person point of view all bind together to create/convey a theme that engages and relates to the reader. In the current society, this message of value in all lives is something that could cause great influence and discussion based on the recent events that have taken place. Thinking about the idea of value in every life, it becomes clear to conclude