Neal Shusterman's Unwind

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Neal Shusterman wrote the novel Unwind in the year 2007. He sets the novel in a society that believes killing their unbehaved children is right. Connor is an Unwind in his society. His parents have decided that he doesn’t mean anything to them because he periodically misbehaves. Instead, his parents are completely fine with their other son, who is considered “perfect” because he doesn’t misbehave every once in awhile, and they decide to Unwind Connor. Shusterman develops the character, Connor, in Unwind through what he says about him, and what other people in the novel say to or about him. Unwinding is when children’s parents sign a paper for their children to basically be killed. When they are unwound they are sent to a harvest camp to be torn apart piece by piece while they're awake and their body parts are given …show more content…
The way Connor responds to him being unwound is exactly how any other person would react when he finds out his parents have signed him up to be taken apart. He runs away from his house all by himself and tries his hardest to survive until he’s 18 and free to have control over what happens to his own body. When he sees that storked baby, he runs to save it’s life and puts his own life on the line. When he meets Lev he tries to help him, even though he’s “supposed to be unwound”, because he believes it’s right. He responds to his “perfect society” by helping people who can’t help themselves, and puts his own life on the line. Shusterman demonstrates, “‘You can’t change laws without first changing human nature’... ‘You can’t change human nature without first changing the law’”(pg 51).There are many laws that Connor and all of the other Unwinds that do not agree with the laws and they would be more than willing to change. That’s why Connor goes out of his way to save anybody that he believes needs to be
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