Neale Hesterman Unwind Sparknotes

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Unwind by Neal Shusterman describes a world, taking place shortly after the second civil war, where parents and families are able to “retroactively abort” their children when they are past the age of thirteen. When they turn eighteen, they are no longer within their parent's’ constraints and cannot be unwound. When teenagers are unwound, their body parts and organs become disassembled and can be transplanted into teenagers who require that specific part or organ. Families interpret this as their children’s essence being spread among other teenagers, in which their child will still live on. This book follows every move of the main characters Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward, and Lev Caldar. These three characters work together for most of the book …show more content…

Throughout the story, they split up -- Connor and Risa are with each other for the most part -- and try to save other teens who are too afraid to fight back but want to. Although the three of them periodically separate, they still work together in order to save other rebels who have escaped other cops from unwinding them. The juvey cops that are trying to arrest them are relentless and begin to stop at nothing to arrest them and continue the unwinding process. They reach a warehouse where there are other unwounds being kept in secret. There they meet a boy named Roland who talks and acts tough. He begins to think that Connor, the famous Akron AWOL, was a threat to his position among the others. So, in order to establish his dominance, he begins to play mind games with Connor and begins to involve Risa, Connor’s friends, and the rest of the kids who were supposed to be unwound. With Connor’s leadership, Risa’s survival and medical instincts and skills, and Lev’s decision to be an explosive device, they were able to escape the grasps of the juvenile cops and were able to save themselves from behind unwound. However, this might not have gone the same with the others, and that is where another story …show more content…

Every single page contains some kind of action or drama that keeps me wanting to read more. The love story between Connor and Risa, the action that takes place whenever there are juvey cops and children meant to be unwound, and following the different perspectives of each character really drew me in as a reader and kept my undivided attention throughout the whole book. Unwind went above and beyond my expectations as just a book that most of my classmates enjoyed. This book made me want to read more of this kind of book and I am now reading the sequel to Unwind --

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