Post #1- Dakota Doyle 10/15/2012
I am reading the book "Unwind”. The author of this book
is Neal Shusterman. I am currently on chapter 14. (pg.255) So far this book is
about three kids- Lev, Connor, Risa. Lev was planned to be unwound from his
birth, Risa is has no parent and is being unwound so the orphanage doesn’t have
to pay extra money, and Connor has trouble in school and with the law. The
parents of all three of these kids have signed a paper to have them unwound.
After Conor finds out about his parents decisions he decides to run away, he
hops in a semi, and the driver drives him across the state overnight. The next
day his father calls his cell phone, which he then used to track Conor. Lev is
in the car on the way to the harvest camp when he sees a ton of cops up ahead;
they are all chasing after one person (Connor). Risa is in a school bus that soon
crashed because of all of this commotion. The three of these EWOL's,
unknowingly how, meet up, and now they are on the run. Their first plan was to
change their looks. They went door to door saying that they were doing a
fundraiser for their school, and they were collecting food and clothes for the
homeless. But, after Risa picks up a storked baby, at a random door step the
three are now faced with a much bigger problem than they were before! I think
this is a good book, because the author writes it like he is actually in the
situation, and it is easy to understand. I think the author wrote this story to
show that your life will not always go as planned, and sometimes you are going
to have to do the unexpected. The big idea in this story is that when you are
in trouble or a fight for your survival you have to do some things that you
would have never thought about doing before. In my opinion the best character
is Lev. He was taken hostage at the beginning of the book. Now, he is doing his
best to earn Connor and Risa's trust, but on the bus he wrote a note saying he
was kidnapped by unwinds, so someone will soon find it and report it. "You can't change laws without first
changing human nature" was said during this story. I think that this is a
cool quote, because if you really think about it, it makes 100% sense. Some of
the Questions that I have are- Will they make it until they are 18? Has anyone
caught on to them yet? What are Lev's parents thinking? What are harvest camps
like?
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