https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2 Prompt: Is unwinding murder? en-us 2018-10-23 01:52:46 UTC 2018-10-23 13:47:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png julia_brown2 https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295770140 The definition of murder is "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another." Being killed is ending a life, which could be any person or animal. In order to be murdered, one's life is terminated intentionally.]]> 2018-10-23 03:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295770140 julia_brown2 https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295773019 "How wonderful it is that she can dismiss her responsibility so easily?" (Shusterman 55)

Unwind picks up after a war was fought over the issue of abortion. When the war ended abortion was illegal, but it came with a price. When a child turns 13, they are eligible to be unwound until their 18th birthday. The decision to unwind a child rests in the hands of their parents. Like the quote from above, parents can "dismiss [their] responsibility easily." All they are required to do is sign a form to send their child to be harvested. At the harvest camp, they are sent to have their body parts harvested: "Unwound into nothing - [their] bones, [their] flesh, [their] mind, shredded and recycled" (Shusterman 148). Most children wish they could resist their unwinding, but nothing can be undone after the order is signed. Is this order murder?

"How could it be, when unwinds aren't really dead?" (Shusterman 124)

]]> 2018-10-23 03:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295773019 julia_brown2 https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295780811 Unwinding is not the regular relaxation we would refer to. To be unwound is just a medical procedure. I would not consider the act of unwinding to be murder; however, I do think the process is murder. When the parents sign the order to have their kid unwinded, they are ending their child's life. Just like the definition, the order form is premeditated like a normal murder. Murder is not a desired act, and there will always be a victim. The kids in the book who are sent to be unwound are victims. There were numerous times where they spent time thinking if they had a soul just like everyone else. Connor was told in order to have a soul you must be loved: "Did they ever love him? Certainly they did when he was little. And just because they stopped, it didn't mean his soul was stolen away.." (Shusterman 174). In order for someone to die, I believe their soul must die or leave their body. ]]> 2018-10-23 04:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295780811 julia_brown2 https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295784317 Unwinding and abortion are the same thing in my eyes. The lives of a baby or child are in the hands of humans. I believe all people have souls, just like the kids in Unwind. Despite all the body parts still being alive, your soul makes you unique. When they harvested their body, they are breaking apart the union of one person. Once the body is in different pieces, the soul is no longer there.

The way the characters describe unwinding in the novel makes it appear as not that bad. However, I believe that it is unethical and it is murder. The actual procedure might not be murder, but the concept is. Adults are murdering children because they simply don't want them. But I disagree that the acual medical procedure is murder. The way the proccess is completed fits the definition of murder. From the moment of conception, there is a soul: "The unborn have souls. They have they have them from the moment they get made -the law says'" (Shusterman 172). Once a person's body has been torn apart, I do not think they are still living. Taking away someone's right to life is murdering them, and it is a decision no human should be able to make.

"We have a right to our lives." (Shusterman 333)]]> 2018-10-23 04:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/julia_brown2/6rnrc8zxuvs2/wish/295784317