Megan Beuter Blog Post 2

The book I am reading is UnWholly, the second book in the Unwind trilogy, by Neal Shusterman. I have read 284 pages in the book. The main characters are Connor, Risa, Lev, Starkey, Miracolina, and Camus. Starkey plots against Connor, and has began a Stork club that causes separation in the group of "Whollies". Risa went off in an ambulance in her wheelchair, to be sure that a "Wholly" teenager from the graveyard came back alive. But Risa doesn't ever return. Connor, as you know from the last book, is trying to govern the graveyard and save some soon-to-be unwinds from their homes just a day before the Juvenal cops would show up at their door. Miracolina is a tithe, but she is "saved" from her own fate just like a couple other teen-tithes. However, she doesn't accept this turn of events, nor does she accept the "un brainwashing" as she calls it. She finds a way to escape the hideout, and sets her plan into action as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Lev, the clapper who didn't clap, spends his time with Pastor Dan, whom only is referred to as "pastor" by Lev, and his older brother Marcus. However it doesn't last and Lev finds that some members of the ADR [Anti-Divisional Resistance] have made Lev appear as a "God-like" role model to the tithes who were saved by the ADR. Camus, preferably called Cam, is very unlike all the other characters. He is what some call a "Rewind." All of his parts come from more than a hundred unwinds. He has an intricate design of skin and hair colors that are arranged into a sort of "patch work quilt." Yet despite him being programmed with all the knowledge he could ever need, he had to make sense of all of it and pull it all together in order to function. I love this book. It holds my attention and keeps me fully engaged in the story. I always find myself unable to find a good place to stop. It also brings forth ideas that I hadn't thought much about before. The author wrote this to get the readers to think about the possible outcomes that could come from huge debates, that could eventually lead to war, such as abortion vs. no abortion. The book is centered around the "Heartland War," which was a war that fought over life rights. I think this is his motivation because this is his second book with the same theme. The theme of this book is unwinding, which is "the process through which an individual is dismantled. By law 99.4 percent of a person must be used and kept alive in transplant." Unwinding can happen between the ages of 13-17, as of the end of the Unwind book. The author wanted us to think about how the "war" between abortion vs. no abortion could possibly end in the very near future. Camus is the most interesting character because at the beginning he could barely talk and now he can do nearly everything perfectly. He becomes able to use his knowledge that was programmed to make decisions about and for himself. "I am more than the parts I am made of!" (pg. 144). Camus says this, and it is important because it is a point in the book where you have to decide for yourself whether he is indeed just parts or if he is an actual person.