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Because my view on whether or not unwinding is murder or not fluctuated throughout the novel, I came to the conclusion that unwinding is not murder, eventhough I think an unwind order is murderous. I came to this conclusion because the main characters, Connor, Risa, and Lev, were all ordered unwinds, yet none of them were actually unwound. Also, through Roland's process and Harlan's reunion with himself, it is shown that the person is not actually killed in the medical procedure, just separated within itself.

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As I continued to read the novel, I realized that eventhough I think that the ordering of an unwinding is murderous, I do not think that the act of unwinding is murder or that the person is considered dead after being unwound. I came to the conclusion that I did not believe the actually unwinding process in the Chop Shop as I was reading Roland's unwinding. The process "takes tweleve surgeons, in teams of two, rotating in and out as their medical speciality is needed. It takes nine surgical assisstants and four nurses. It takes three hours." This proves that is a serious action that is viewed as a medical procedure. I do not think this is considered murder because these are surgeons who are being told to do these things, and each surgeons is taking a different part away piece by piece. Roland was also alive throughout the process and never really died. His body was just no longer functioning all together. I think it is proven that an unwind is not dead through Harlan Dunfree at his 26th birthday party. Admiral and his wife threw their unwound son a birthday party, which they invited everyone who had a part of their son. While at the party, every person who had a piece of Harlan was able to come together to share the moment when he was six years old and fell off a wall and hurt his wrist and also his asthma. Admiral and his wife were able to experience a moment again with their son by hearing his voice, seeing his different bodies parts, and hearing his thoughts and memories and once more tell their son, "Welcome home." So I believe that the process is just a medical procedure that does not kill but separate one's body parts.

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As a started to read Unwind, I related the action of unwinding to an abortion, which I believe is murder. I believe that in placing an Unwind order, a parent is murdering their child. Placing an order to have your child unwound should not be as easy as pressing an "order now button. Eventhough Connor and Lev escaped being unwound, they were no longer alive to their parents. These parents signed up to have their own children taken out of their lives. Before almost being unwound, Connor hopefully thinks, "Maybe it's not dying. Maybe it's just passing into a new form of life." I think that these thoughts are proven true when all of Harlan Dunfree's body parts had come together to tell a story and have a moment with Admiral and his wife, but these are not the same thoughts of a parent placing the Unwind order. The parents do not want their child and see them as a life without purpose; therefore, they kill them. Connor's parents were not even aware that their child had escaped because he was unwanted, and even if they were informed, they most likely would not have cared. Lev's parents, on the other hand, knew he had escaped being unwound and were offered the opportunity to claim custody of him again. Lev was a tithe, which meant he was being unwound as a religious contribution and were unwinds who were good, but his parents still declined the offer of getting custody of him again. With this being said, I believe the parents are murderers of their own children when they place an Unwind order.

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The definiton of murder is "to kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation". On the back of the book, Shusterman states, "Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end." I think this is a good defintion for what unwinding is. In order to be unwound, a child's parents place an Unwind order. Connor and Lev are both unwinds in the novel, and their orders were placed by their parents. Risa is a student at Ohio State, where the headmaster their ordered her unwind because she was too old to be offered education there. The orders come with three sheets, one for the parents, one for the authorities, and one for the unwind. On the order is a date of when the unwinding will take place. When comparing unwinding to the defintion of murder, it does not qualify as murder from the unlawful perspective, but it fits in the aspect that it is premeditated. It is totally legal for a parent to chose to have their child unwound once of age; therefore, it is not an unlawful killing. Unwinding is a planned killing because they parents plan to place the order and are given a set date as to when their child will be unwound.