Choice Book Essay

The biggest psychological portion of the book has to come from the character Cyrus Finch. He goes by CyFi for short and is also sometimes referred to as just Cy. He is one of the few mentioned characters that has received a body part from an Unwind. Unfortunately, often times the parts people receive from Unwinds keep or retain tricks or habits the original owners or people had, and Cyrus is an individual who received a part like this. Now, an important fact about CyFi is that he’s smart, and he talks a lot. But he “talks funny” according to Lev. CyFi explains that he is umber and used to be called “black” in times past, and that he talks that way to respect his ancestors, adding to the fact that past experiences (in this case learning about his ancestors) can change how people act. One day, he is talking to Lev about how smart he is and how losing his right temporal lobe and gaining someone else’s has affected him. He says to Lev (the numbers are his IQ), “My dads made sure I got an entire temporal lobe from a single donor. But that kid wasn’t as smart as me. He wasn’t no dummy but he didn’t have the 155. The last brain scan put me at 130. That’s in the top 5 percent of the population, and still considered genius. Just not with a capital G.” (126). Usually, a person will only receive bits and pieces of the brain, but CyFi’s dads paid an excessive amount of money to get a whole and intact temporal lobe and it is obvious that CyFi loves and is proud of his dads by the way he talks about them. Something else he feels strongly about is stealing. Cy hates it and is adamant against even the very thought of stealing. And while it is strange just how strongly he feels about stealing, it is soon explained.
After traveling with CyFi for a...

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...rything. And storking’s in the Bible too… Moses. Moses was put in a basket in the Nile and was found by Pharaoh’s daughter. He was the first storked baby, and look what happened to him!” (72). Lev, only thirteen years old, must have had someone tell him this.
All in all, Neal Shusterman has written a riveting book that can be brought to light through different lenses. When looking at it through the socio-economic lens, one can see how those with power should choose how they use their power wisely. With the psychological lens, the book can be used to effectively support the fact that everyone acts differently due to the things they know and have learned. Lastly, with the spiritual lens, the book really leads up to the idea that religion is a choice best made for oneself, and no one else. Lenses help to show different aspects of a book that people don’t always notice.