Is unwinding murder? by Brianna Barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4 en-us 2018-10-11 14:01:38 UTC 2024-11-19 07:09:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png The process brianna_barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/291762454 In chapter 61, Roland faces his life being unwound, literally. This chapter goes through the whole process of unwinding with Roland. It explains his point of view for how it happens, what he feels(mentally), and how he remained cognant and alive during the whole 3 hours. It is described that you feel no physical pain, and are completely clueless to how you are being taken apart. Roland describes a "discomfort, a tickling sensation, but no pain (Shusterman 290)." At the end of the process, as they are taking away the parts of the brain, Roland starts to have memory tweaks. Until every part is completely taken away, He can still think, as if his conscience was still there. 
"I...I...I can't remember my name, but...but...
right temporal
...but I'm still here (Shusterman 293)."  
]]> 2018-10-11 14:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/291762454 What is unwinding? brianna_barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/291813583 This novel takes a turn on the future and brings the reader to a darker time of America, after the second civil war. This war, Heartland War, was fought over the right to life. The ultimate ending of the war resulted in a process called "unwinding." Parents can send their kids to be unwind from the ages of 13-17. This process involves dismantling one's body completely. 100 % of all the body parts are completely taken apart and used for transplants for anyone that needs a specific part. Now the question is, are you still alive after being unwound? ]]> 2018-10-11 16:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/291813583 Author's Opinion brianna_barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/291824334 In this quote by the author, Neil Shusterman, he is describing how the unwinds are not even recongnized as who they were after the process is complete. This shows that unwinds are treated as "unwanted" by the rest of society, and therefore are vanished altogether like the "flame of a candle." This can further be translated in how the unwinding process happens. One minute you are a live, warm flame, and then you dissapear. The wick of the candle is your conscience. The flame represents your soul and your body at its full state. Although this flame can be burnt out, and the fundamentals that make up your body are gone, this candle has the ability to be lite again.]]> 2018-10-11 16:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/291824334 In a divided state brianna_barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/293945362 "I didn't get the part of him that uses words. I get feelings mostly. Sometimes images, but usually just feelings. Urges. When I get an urge and I don't know where it's coming from, I know it's from him (Shusterman 138)."

In Unwind there is proof that your "divided state" is still alive in some way. In this quote from one of the characters, CyFi, who is admitting that he sometimes can feel and see images of the boy who he received a a partial brain transplant from. Although he can still feel him, the boy who was unwound is unaware of what happened. CyFi mentions he only got his right temporal lobe, so he is "seven-eights of himself, and one-eight of him." The boy doesnt know that he has been unwound or that he is even apart of another body, but still wants to think and act like he is through CyFi. This is a crucial diadvantage of the unwinding process, but shows that you can still be alive in some form.
]]> 2018-10-17 16:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/293945362 No, unwinding is not technically murder brianna_barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/294123648 2018-10-17 22:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/294123648 How you can be put back together brianna_barry https://padlet.com/brianna_barry/rg8yamm9vbd4/wish/294123912 In chapter 69 of Unwind, we meet a character whose name was only mentioned in rumors by others. His name is Harlan Dunfree, or as others would call him, Humphrey Dunfee. This is a boy who was unwound, but the decision was later regreted by his parents. In effort to bring back their son they searched for every single person who recieved had a part of Harlan through transplants. In this chapter we finally see the outcome of their journey. 
"And as the admiral and his wife watch, something amazing happens. The conversations begain to converge! Like water vapor crystalizing into the magnificent, unique form of a snowflake, the babble of voices coalesces into a single conversation (Shusterman 334)."  

This is what happens when all of the body parts are put in one area. The person who was unwound will start to come back to existence, only spread out through hundreds of people. This proves being unwound does not kill you completely, but stretches your life away. 
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