Unwind, Neal Shuterman, pg. 1-50 Blake S.

This week I read pages 1-50 in the novel Unwind. Since the beginning of the book I have been intrigued with its ideas and the action never seems to die down. One of the things I find most interesting is the way the story is told. The author separates the different chapters in the book by the different points of view each character offers. As you read the story, you see how all of the lives and thoughts of the characters are bound together by the events. Such an event occurred at the beginning of the novel. Connor had been caught by the police by the highway and decided to run across the crowded street. As he runs a bus crashes and he is hit by a balck truck. Later, when you read from other points of view, you find out that the people in those vehicles are also "unwinds" and are connected in the plot. I find this extremely useful because the reader is able to analyze how each of the characters sees one other and how they react to the same event only in different ways. For example; Connor, the main protagonist in the story, sees being unwound as an insulting and inhuman thing for a parent to do to their child. Connor is very hurt by his parents' decision to unwind him. On the other hand you have Lev. Lev is a very religious kid who has embraced the idea of sacrificing his body to god and almost wants to be unwound. Lev sees this as his purpose in life. Connor says, "Maybe he is over the duty of being tithed. Maybe he is finally starting to see the sense of staying alive." (46) Even by looking at how one of the the characters explains the concept can give us an inside look on what they really think of it.