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According to the dictionary definition of murder, unwinding is not murder.

"Then we proposed the idea of unwinding, which would terminate unwanteds without actually ending their lives" (224).

Murder: verb. kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.

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1. It is legal.

2. The bodies and souls of the unwinds are alive.

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It is legal to have a child unwound between the age of 13-18.

"'Because Unwinds aren't really dead. They're still alive... sort of. I mean, they have to use every single part of us somewhere, right? That's the law'" (167).

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"'The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state'" (24).

–The truck driver can perform card tricks with his new hand that he couldn't do before his transplant (13).

–The part of the brain from Cy-Fi's transplant can still control his thoughts, words, and actions (134).

"This boy in the corner of his head doesn't talk to him in words. He feels. He emotes" (185).

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Abuse: noun. unjust or corrupt practice

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Both the Unwinds and the recipients of their body parts are negatively affected by unwinding.

"There is no peace in CyFi's head...Cy will lose it. He'll lose everything. His mind will spill out of his ears and down the drains of the streets of Joplin" (185).

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CyFi is forever damaged after his encounter with Tyler. 

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CyFi is forever damaged after his encounter with Tyler. 

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"Wherever his journey takes him, it doesn't matter, because he has already arrived there in his heart. He's become like the that briefcase on the ground–full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines" (193).

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Connor and Risa have no choice in their unwindings, and they are both petrified of being unwound. This fear begins both of their missions. Although they are successfully survive, they miserably live in fear for months as they move from place to place in hiding.

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Deceit: noun. the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.

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Religious groups are convinced that having a child with the intention of having them unwound at age 13 is honorable. The government has its citizens convinced that unwinding is moral.

"''You're special, his parents always told him. 'Your life will be to serve God, and mankind'" (31).

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Even the name itself–Happy Jack–is deceiving. The government acts as if the harvest camps are happy, honorable places. In actuality, children are being sent their to have their bodies taken apart without their consent.

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Although unwinding is abuse and deceit, it is not murder. 

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Although unwinding is abuse and deceit, it is not murder. 

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It is legal and the bodies and souls of Unwinds are preserved; therefore, unwinding cannot be technically defined as murder.

However, ethically unwinding is wrong and torturous to all involved.

Because of unwinding, the dignity of human life was stripped, and the idea of humanity became more about this loophole to killing undesirable people and less about the soul of each person.