Unwind Supplemental by https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2019-04-03 12:16:05 UTC 2019-04-03 13:54:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Unwind By Neal Shusterman mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023075 Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007. Print.]]> 2019-04-03 12:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023075 Theme mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023314 Unwind is based around the moral dilemma considering the question: is a person still alive if he or she is not complete or living his or her own life?  ]]> 2019-04-03 12:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023314 Quote 1: The Bill of Life mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023518 “The Bill of Life States that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. However, between the ages of 13 and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively ‘abort’ a child … on the condition that the child’s life doesn’t ‘technically’ end. The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called unwinding” (Shusterman 1). ]]> 2019-04-03 12:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023518 Quote 1 Reflection mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023732 The Bill of Life is the outcome of the war called the Heartland War. It essentially is a compromise between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice advocates over the abortion conflict. Initially, I did not understand how this is considered a compromise because it seems that life does end when unwound. After reading the novel, I still stand on this view that life ends, but I can understand how people would rationalize that life does not end. Because parts of the unwinds live on within the people who receive their parts, and personality lives on, it makes it easier for people to be okay with ripping their children apart. ]]> 2019-04-03 12:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348023732 Quote 2: Connor mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348026890 “‘AWOL …’ she says. ‘What does that mean, anyway?’ 
‘It’s an old military term or something,’ Connor says. ‘It means ‘absent without leave.’”(Shusterman 5)

]]> 2019-04-03 12:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348026890 Quote 2 Reflection mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348030341 While reading this, the term AWOL sent chills through my body. AWOL gives off an eerie vibe because it does accurately describe the position of the unwinds. “Absent without leave” as applied to the unwinds explains the absence of the children’s present, but they technically do not leave. The unwinds presence remains within the people their body parts are given, and their personality even shows through in the recipients of the unwound. The without leave aspect of AWOL is what makes the idea of unwinding rational to those who could be disturbed by the idea. The unwinsds are still here, just not in their original form. ]]> 2019-04-03 12:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348030341 Quote 3: Reflection mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348030929 The idea that people are born to be tithes is the truly most heart-wrenching aspect of the acceptance of unwinding. Lev was born to be unwound; essentially, he was born with his only purpose to serve society as an organ farm. The idea that society accepts this and even celebrates birth for the intention of donating organs is extremely disturbing, and it had me questioning again how the Pro-Life side agreed to unwinding as a compromise. It seems that aside from the death part, a life predecided for death and enslavement to a death date seems enough for a Pro-Life outrage alone. ]]> 2019-04-03 12:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348030929 Quote 3: Lev mignonantoine2 https://padlet.com/mignonantoine2/4vquyuyvox1e/wish/348030944 “He knew he was a tithe from the time he was little. ‘You’re special,’ his parents had always told him. ‘Your life will be to serve God, and mankind’” (Shusterman 31) 

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