The society in Unwind is not a perfect society because State Homes need more funding, Storking is unsafe, and the Unwinding system has a lot of holes in it. The society in Unwind is far from perfect. It functions well but that's not always perfect because functioning well and functioning perfectly are very different things.
First of all, State Homes need more funding, for many different reasons, one of them being that the kids grow up having to be great at something in order to survive. You can see this happening to Risa at the beginning of the book. “Five mistakes. Every one of them is small, subtle, but they are mistakes nonetheless. It would have been fine if any of the other kids' performances were less than stellar, but the others shined.”…show more content… Any unqualified person could be storked, and they'd be breaking the law if they didn't take care of the baby. This actually happened in the book, when Didi was Storked to that family. “The door of the house opens. Theres a fat little kid at the door- six, maybe seven. He stares down at the baby. 'Aw, no way!' then he turns and calls back into the house, 'Mom! We've been Storked again!'” (Shusterman 62). This baby was Storked to an ungreatful and probably unqualified family (seeing as they're child is fat), and if Conner and Risa hadn't taken the baby away that family probably would have put it in a StaHo. In the book there is also an example of a family that illegally Re-Storked a baby. “the baby had been passed around the neighborhood for two whole weeks- each morning, left on someone else's doorstep... only now it's not looking too good.” (Shusterman 74). Storking is also unsafe because if Conner and Risa were able to run up to a house and claim to be the parents of Didi then take the baby, that means that anyone could do that to steal a baby. Also, in that quote, it tells you exactly how dangerous it is. A baby died after 2 weeks of going around a neighborhood. It died because no one wanted take care of
