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This is the first chapter Lev is truly introduced and its his unwinding/birthday party. All his family has come and 'friends' everyone is nice to him and he gets what he wants. There are no mistakes or anything until later on when his brother, Marcus, went up on stage to say a few things about his little brother after everyone else. He made this whole speech about how wrong it was and unfair and then smashed his champagne glass over the buffet table. And then later on he's kidnapped by Connor and bites him. But he wants to be unwound but that's not going to happen now.

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Champagne Glass Breaking In Super Slow Motion

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"He often wonders if being chosen always leaves a person so isolated. Or is there something wrong with him?" -p32

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Lev decides its best to pretend he doesn't want to be an unwind so that Conner and Risa will trust him and untie him. He needs to play it cool and get Risa and Conner to trust him so he can create a plan to escape later on,

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LOONEY TUNES - Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote (Dynamite)

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"It's no use trying to explain to this godless pair what tithing is all about. How giving one's self is the ultimate blessing. They'd never understand or care. Save him? They haven't saved him, they've damned him." -p42

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The gang has made their way onto a bus to go to school and Lev sits next to a punk-like individual and in an attempt of escape he asks for help from the man by using the guys notebook. Sadly to no avail because the punk isn't the brightest individual and did not even read his distress message.

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"HELP! I'M BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY TWO AWOL UNWINDS. NOD IF YOU UNDERSTAND..." -p69

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Lev escapes the bathroom, slipping out during as a bell rang and made his way to the front office. He snitches on Risa and Conner and then is brought to the nurses room where he calls Pastor Dan and Dan tells him to run and to not get unwind, which causes Lev too fully launch off, his religion and beliefs being thrown away in a matter of seconds.

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"His life has been has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory." -p80

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Lev has escaped the school thanks to him pulling the fire alarm, saving Risa and Conner in the process. So now he rushes out into the panicking of the students at the rumor of clappers in search of his friends. But as he see's them and they see him, he makes his matters worse by yelling out their real names. They, of course, run away.

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"You can be anyone you want to be now, Pastor Dan had said. But right now, Lev feels like no one. This is the true meaning of alone: Levi Jedediah Calder suddenly realizing he no longer exists." -p90

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Lev is now accompanied with an Umber kid who talks a whole lot in an ancient accent. He's either talking about his IQ or how good he is. Lev humors him, accidentally making a friend along the way. They met in a shopping mall, Lev barely grasping the ways of your everyday street rat and Cy-Fi: Cyrus Finch, tells him some tricks. And now they walk along the railroad talking about Joplin and Cy-Fi's brain part of an unwind. They head into a town and Cy-Fi steals a shiny gold ornament and they learn of how Cy-Fi's unwind part is a klepto and that's why they're going to Joplin.

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"There's panic brewing deep down in Lev now, slowly fighting its way to the surface.--'I think my mom will like the blue one.' You don't have a mom, Lev wants to say, but he doesn't because all that matters now is getting out of the shop." -p133

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Lev and Cy-Fi make there way to Joplin, Cy-Fi getting worse the closer they get in an almost seizure like state. They briefly talk about the unwound kid part in his Cy-Fi's head and how he needs to get to Joplin, Lev previously robbed a pawnshop but they only use the money for food, nothing else.

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"Who says I'm sane?' 'Oh, you're sane, Fry. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane." -p184

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Lev is so furious at Tyler, the unwind kids, parents that he yells at them. Ordering them to forgive Tyler and to tell him they won't unwind him even thought they did to give Cyrus that peace of mind. And as crying and hugging and commotion plays out, Lev slips away into the dark, going from one shade to another till night fall. He's on his own now once again, but now he's fluent in Street Smart.

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"The streetlights have not yet come on, so Lev dodges through endless shades of pitch. The better to run. The better to hide. The better to lose himself now that darkness is his friend." -p194

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So Lev made his way to the graveyard, keeping his Tithe title a secret, instead saying he robbed a place at gun point. But now he meets up with this small alliance within the graveyard combined of three people, one being Cleaver, the Admirals helicopter pilot. They crave chaos, and with no structure in Levs life, chaos seems perfect for him.

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"All right, I'm in.' Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn't realized how much he missed that feeling." -p230

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Lev is now at the unwound camp Happy Jack, the same place where Conner, Risa, and Roland are at. He doesn't know that though. He sits in a group of other Tithes, all clean and pristine on the outside.

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"Lev may have the remnants of a sunburn, but his hair is cut short and neat, just as it used to be, and his manner is sensitive and mild. At least on the outside. He has an appointment for unwinding in thirteen days." -p274

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Lev tells about his life as a Tithe at the camp. He does daily prayers, writes a speech and avoids social contact the best he can because this one kid just won't leave him alone. He talks to Blaine and Mai about Conner and other kids from the graveyard being here and how they might get recognized, but they talk it out. Lev receives his detonators and they look like band-aids.

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"All Lev knows is that someday soon the world will suffer a small part of the loss and the emptiness and the utter disillusionment he feels inside. And they will know the moment he raises his hands in applause." -p284

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Lev and the other Tithes go on a nature walk. the pastor talks about a tree and how beautiful it is and Lev sasses him. Lev passes by Conner and also learns that Conner is to be unwound that after noon so the moment he gets back he goes to Blaine, telling him they're going to be discovered and they need to do the clapping tonight.

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"When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with humility comes wisdom." -p295

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Pastor Dan visits Lev who is bound in place so he can't clap his hands. Pastor Dan tells him he won't be unwound and he's caused protests, Cy-Fi the one making the huge fuss over unwinding. He's on magazine covers because he's a clapper who didn't clap. His parents disowned him but he learns after a few years in juvie and house arrest he'll be with his brother Marcus who is fighting for guardianship over Lev.

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"For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bonds around his soul begin to loosen 'You think maybe I can believe in that god, too?." -p329