Imagine you’re a normal person. You go to school, hang out with your friends, and watch your siblings. You’re just an average kid. You know that your society unwinds people, but you never thought one day you’d be one of them. Your parents, out of the blue, tell you that you’re going to be unwound. The first thing you think is that you hate your parents. Why would they unwind you? You have been nothing but good to them! Then you think about what unwinding is. Your body parts are all going to different people, and you will still be “alive”, but it won’t be the same a being a whole person. This is what it’s like to be in Unwind by Neal Shusterman. In Unwind, three teens are fighting for their freedom. Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward, and Lev Calder …show more content…
One detail to support the fact that he’s hot-headed is “And Lev feels the kid poke him in the side. Lev knows it’s not a gun- he knows it’s just the kid’s finger, but this is clearly an unstable individual, and he doesn’t want to set him off.” The “kid” is Connor, and this shows how he’s unstable and impulsive, which causes him to make reckless decisions, but, in the end, his reckless decisions save many of the Unwind’s lives. Risa is also a main character in the story. She very intelligent and quick-witted because she stayed in a StaHo, which is like a state home for orphans. StaHos’ are usually very crowded places, so you had to learn how to be smart and fend for yourself. One detail to support the fact that she’s quick-witted and smart is ‘Three minutes later, Risa walks away from the house with a bag of clothes and canned food. “That was amazing,” says Connor, who had been watching with Lev from the edge of the woods. “What can I say? I’m an artist,” she says. It’s like playing the piano; you just have to know which keys to strike in people.” This is a good quote to describe Risa because it shows how she can change her attitude and personality to get what she needs. Lev is a strange character. He was consumed by pride because all of his life, he thought it was his “duty” …show more content…
Three connections I made were one text to society and two text to world.One connection I made was that Unwinds sometimes think other people think they are not good enough to live. That’s how some kids feel in many schools. They don’t feel accepted into the community, and it hurts so much that some people can feel suicidal. In Unwind, some kids might feel like they deserve to be unwound. Both societies have people who think they are not good enough to live. One other connection I made was text to world. When I thought of the Heartland War, I immediately thought about World War Two. In the Heartland War, the “Bill of Life” was passed, saying that people could Unwind their children if they wanted to. In World War Two, if Adolf Hitler would’ve won, our society might have been similar to this, because Hitler wanted to take over the world. He would have gotten to bend people against their will, much like the parents and their children in Unwind. I believe this connection was especially important because if the Axis powers would have won, our society could have been similar to this one. The last connection is similar to the second one. In the story, they reference clappers a lot. Clappers are very similar to suicide bombers today. In the book, clappers try to explode along with thousands of people, kind of like bombers. One bomber incident is 9/11. The bombers killed themselves to hurt America,
I chose to do a man named Connor, from the book Unwind. In the book, Connor has been signed away to be unwound, but he ran away so he would not die. Connor always believed that unwinding was a bad and morally wrong thing to do. He thought that it was murder, and that they were stripping people of their body, and that that was wrong. So he decided to do something about it.
Three main character that he shows compassion through in different ways are, Reuven, Mr. Malter and Reb Sanders. To begin with, Reuven shows great companion for other, even in his teenage years. He demonstrates throughout the book that he really cares for others and that he takes their burden upon himself. He shows how he actually suffers with others with their hardships and he never only thinks about himself. For example, when Reuven learns that his little friend Billy did not get his eye sight back, the book says, “I felt myself break out into cold sweat.
correlates to the condition of society during the fifties, and conveys a momentous idea that the people living during this time should have faith in God and hope for the betterment of society in times of hardships, and should not focus on the injustice in the world. First, the reference to the death of millions of innocent people in the bombings of London, Hiroshima, and Dresden outrightly relates to the suffering that people have experienced both during and after the war, because many people innocent perished in WWII for no reason. In addition, David’s death also parallels to the post-WWII era, and relates to J.B. and Sarah’s responses to his death to the pain and devastation that families suffered when their young children who served as soldiers died in World War II. J.B. and Sarah’s discussion during their Thanksgiving meal is yet another parallel to the postwar era and portrays the two different outlooks that people had on life after the war. Finally, MacLeish uses J.B. to relate to the people living during the postwar era by concluding the play with J.B. and Sarah finding comfort in love and rebuilding their life together as a family to convey the message that they should try to alleviate their hardships and sorrow by viewing the situation optimistically and by seeking love in the
This independent reading assignment is dedicated to Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut experienced many hardships during and as a result of his time in the military, including World War II, which he portrays through the protagonist of Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse-Five, however, not only introduces these military experiences and the internal conflicts that follow, but also alters the chronological sequence in which they occur. Billy is an optometry student that gets drafted into the military and sent to Luxembourg to fight in the Battle of Bulge against Germany. Though he remains unscathed, he is now mentally unstable and becomes “unstuck in time” (Vonnegut 30). This means that he is able to perceive
"In Slaughterhouse Five, -- Or the Children's Crusade, Vonnegut delivers a complete treatise on the World War II bombing of Dresden. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a very young infantry scout* who is captured in the Battle of the Bulge and quartered in a Dresden slaughterhouse where he and other prisoners are employed in the production of a vitamin supplement for pregnant women. During the February 13, 1945, firebombing by Allied aircraft, the prisoners take shelter in an underground meat locker. When they emerge, the city has been levelled and they are forced to dig corpses out of the rubble. The story of Billy Pilgrim is the story of Kurt Vonnegut who was captured and survived the firestorm in which 135,000 German civilians perished, more than the number of deaths in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Robert Scholes sums up the theme of Slaughterhouse Five in the New York Times Book Review, writing: 'Be kind. Don't hurt. Death is coming for all of us anyway, and it is better to be Lot's wife looking back through salty eyes than the Deity that destroyed those cities of the plain in order to save them.' The reviewer concludes that 'Slaughterhouse Five is an extraordinary success. It is a book we need to read, and to reread.' "The popularity of Slaughterhouse Five is due, in part, to its timeliness; it deals with many issues that were vital to the late sixties: war, ecology, overpopulation, and consumerism. Klinkowitz, writing in Literary Subversions.New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism, sees larger reasons for the book's success: 'Kurt Vonnegut's fiction of the 1960s is the popular artifact which may be the fairest example of American cultural change. . . . Shunned as distastefully low-brow . . . and insufficiently commercial to suit the exploitative tastes of high-power publishers, Vonnegut's fiction limped along for years on the genuinely democratic basis of family magazine and pulp paperback circulation. Then in the late 1960s, as the culture as a whole exploded, Vonnegut was able to write and publish a novel, Slaughterhouse Five, which so perfectly caught America's transformative mood that its story and structure became best-selling metaphors for the new age. '"Writing in Critique, Wayne D. McGinnis comments that in Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut 'avoids framing his story in linear narration, choosing a circular structure.
In the dystopian short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursala K. LeGuin and the dystopian novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman both authors challenge readers to consider the sacrifices made in pursuit of a utopian society. In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” the citizens sacrifice a child’s happiness and freedom in order to gain happiness and freedom for themselves. In Unwind, the citizens sacrifice their children if they choose in order to gain happiness. Although both authors employ the use of strict conformity among citizens, Ursala K LeGuin warns the reader against the dangers of greed and staying silent, while Neal Shusterman cautions the reader against the dangers of blindly following one’s government.
War always seems to have no end. A war between countries can cross the world, whether it is considered a world war or not. No one can be saved from the reaches of a violent war, not even those locked in a safe haven. War looms over all who recognize it. For some, knowing the war will be their future provides a reason for living, but for others the war represents the snatching of their lives without their consent. Every reaction to war in A Separate Peace is different, as in life. In the novel, about boys coming of age during World War II, John Knowles uses character development, negative diction, and setting to argue that war forever changes the way we see the world and forces us to mature rapidly.
In the beginning, there named a young man, Allan. He is smart, brave, loving, and someone who they may say an extrovert type of person. He is an outgoing person and very companionable. He has a girlfriend back home and she’s the reason why he worked in the Anne Forbes.
Slaughterhouse Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut is an anti war novel told by the narrator who is a minor character in the story. Slaughterhouse-Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who has come "unstuck in time. "The bombing of Dresden is what destroyed Billy. Dresden’s destruction shows the destruction of people who fought in the war: the all the people who died. Some people, like the main character, Billy Pilgrim, are not able to function normally like before because of what they saw, because of their experience. Throughout the book, Billy starts hallucinating about his experiences with the Tralfamadorians: he wants to escape the world which was destroyed by war, a war that he does not and cannot understand. Vonnegut uses the technique of repetition.. The main repetition is “so it goes” which is told after anything related to death, he also uses other repetitions throughout the book. The major theme of the story is the Destructiveness of War. Vonnegut uses repetition to reinforce the theme of the story.
Living in a world where they have successfully created human clones for organ donations, is not a great achievement to mankind in any way, shape, or form. It makes you wonder, where exactly do you draw the line between the advancement of technology and the dehumanization that occurs because of it?" Never Let Me Go is a Novel based in the main character Kathy’s memories of her experience in Hailsham and after she left. Hailsham is a boarding school for children who have been cloned from people considered as low life’s or unsuccessful, the only purpose given too these children are for them to develop into adults and donate as many of their mature organs as they can till they die, or as the students and guardians refer to it “complete”. The author focuses on the sick ways of our current society and warns us about the possible future that may be introduced and excepted, Kazuo Ishiguro writes with the intent of teaching and affecting the reader on an emotional level at the same time.
Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque’s novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front”. War is by far the most horrible thing that the human race has to go through. The participants in the war suffer irreversible damage by the atrocities they witness and the things they go through.
...ainting symbolize the need for patriotism and unity in a country during war on and off the battlefront. These two prominent texts support each other’s points of fighting for human’s unalienable rights and liberties through writing and visualization. The connection between the to conclude that war may not be just but it is the act of physical force or even any action that can bring together a country and achieve the liberties they deserve. This is a message that can apply to any human today, when someone infringes on another’s liberties then they need to stand up and fight back in order to stop the other from doing it again.
... More lives have been lost in the 21st century then in any century before; therefore foreshadowing that in the years to come we probably should not be so hopeful for real peace. Maybe those heart broken mothers an fathers should not expect to see their children’s deaths as useful. Maybe those orphaned babies should not be given false hope that one day they will be able to go to school without hearing gun shots as if birds were chirping.
William Golding illustrates World War II through young boys in this novel. Technology is one of the major destructors of a civilization. Jealousy is another destructor that ruins the good nature between men and brings out the beast from within. The author has chosen to show the evil in man though young boys to allow the world to understand how unethical the war was. The symbols, character, and setting are shown to correlate with the outside world. The novel just reinforces the idea of the savage within each and every human being.
War is a machine that extracts young men and women from reality. It twists their morals until they do not know what is right or wrong. This level of dehumanization and objectification is clearly argued in Ron Kovic’s Born on the Fourth of July: “He had never been anything but a thing to them, a thing to put a uniform on and train to kill, a young thing to run through the meat-grinder, a cheap small nothing thing to make mincemeat out of” (165). War is the “meat-grinder.” Soldiers only matter because they can kill. War tears apart the people fighting it. Coming out of the war Kovic does not know what to do. He is lost. This aimless feeling is similar to the experiences of Jake and the Gang in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. The protagonist, Jake Barnes, and his entourage wander the streets of Paris and Madrid with no purpose. After war, the real w...