Unwind Destination

Unwind:

Destinations

This section opens with Lev in a pawnbroker's. What does this tell you about how his character is changing?

Well Lev has been living a sort of normal life, he does not like his parents at all.

He would know that he could buy stuff instead of stealing certain things, but now that he is living the life where he is at right now, and not with his family, he would be going desperate for food and all sorts. He is pretty smart with what he is doing, he is selling things that he had stolen just like, jewels and stuff like that just to afford food.

While being transported to possible safety, some of the kids on the run wonder, "Would it be better to die or be unwound?" If given the choice, which would you choose? Why? This response requires more than one or two sentences! Put forward at least three reasons why you think what you do.

I mean in my opinion, I would be unwound because I would rather help people who are in need with different types of body parts or organs.

If I was to die then to be unwound, I would probably die as a normal human being would, but me showing my braveness is what I really want to show.

I would probably think to myself why my parents would have to want me to become an unwind, then to just not have me live my life in peace for the rest of my life.

But I would respect them if it was for the reason to give my organs, to the people who are in need, and to also let me know for my opinion.

Another question the kids in the book discuss is, "If every part of you is still alive but inside someone else, are you alive or are you dead?" They also wonder if consciousness can exist even if it's spread out, and if the soul remains intact. What do you think? Read Thomas Hobbes' Ship of Theseus puzzle to help you make a decision. Be sure to reference it in your answer! http://metaphysicist.com/puzzles/ship_theseus/

I believe that if you have your own body parts in someone else's body, in my opinion can mean you are alive in them because they have whats yours.

You might think I'm weird because being alive in someone else's body would just be double lives in one, but what I'm saying is that, your just alive in them not doing certain moves but like somehow controlling their minds from where they really need to go. In the book there was a donor who gave a person a part of their brain, and the donor would somehow do what they want the receiver to do not really forcing him, but trying to find a way but not in a harmful type of way.

This section of the novel sees Lev and Cy-Fi finally make it to Joplin. As they get closer, Cy-Fi's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. What are some of the things he does, or things he likes, that are not his own behaviours or memories?

Well Cyrus would always start to twitch as they get closer to Joplin which is the destination they needed to go just to complete what the unwind person in his head was showing him to do.
He would go from place to place just to get to where he needed to go.
As soon as he got to his destination things started to go through with him, and then things were back to where he doesn't feel anything.

What was Cy-Ty hiding in his backyard? Pg 185-194
The things that were hiding in Taylor's backyard was all the thing he had stolen, which were loads of rich jewels which were the matters of Cyrus twitching, and also coming to Joplin for.
And about all that was the reason why Taylor needed to get back to Joplin, to apologise to his parents.


The section ends with Cy-Ty reaching his destination. What do you think of his parents' behaviour? What does Lev's support show you about his character?
I think that his parents behaviour was actually quite different to my prespective, and was very nice to accept his apology which was a good thing to do.
Lev's support shows me that he is a true helper, and would become a better person in the future if he would keep doing what he is doing.

10 Worst countries for Child Labour.

Child Labour is where children, are sent to a type of slavery to pay off certain things that their own families need, or the employment of children in an industry or business.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=13U2Q_SNbVZ4XTxkuN9Bp9DXzx4Hz6vHu&ll=5.700230346427368%2C52.31562550000001&z=3

My map is showing 10 places of the worst countries to have child labour, and I have marked all 10 places, the link above would show how many children are in child labour in those 10 marked places, and would show photos.

Why are we learning about child labour?
 I believe for myself that there could be a good reason for us to learn about child labour, and I believe that we should experience all the sad things around the world that is happening, and that we should do something about.
Social Science is where we learn about the world and what certain things are happening just like child labour what we are learning about now.
(I may be wrong) 

Unwind Storked Workshop

Storked- Workshop Discussion:

• Storking is a legal process, but does that make it the right thing to do? It doesn't make it the right thing to do, but I believe the reason why it may be legal, because they may know a mother's life. They could be young or they are just not ready to have kids.
• Is it the mother’s responsibility to care for the child? I believe it is the mother's responsibility to take care of their child, because it is their child and they have to do their best to take care of what they have got given.
• Can Connor offer the baby a better future than it would have if left there? Yes, because having the baby just left their on the doorstep is not a life a baby could be able to handle to live, someone may have seen it out their doorstep but you never know if they would just leave the storked baby there want to live, but Conner would have given the baby a better future, because he has empathy for storked babies, or just normal babies.
• What risks does picking up the baby put on Connor, Risa and Lev? The risk they have to go through is too of course keep the baby alive, and try find as many food for the baby, and not make the baby cry and get their attention.
• What impact does Connors past have on his decision?
  Well Conner's past has been different from the way he is now, because he had experience different things

for example, the time he had seen a storked baby with no one even picking the baby up and just walking

around the baby. And now that Conner knows what to do when he sees a storked baby, is to maybe

pick him up and try do his best to do something good to the baby.

Unwind Transit, Questions

Unwind Part Three-Transit.

In the course of the book, Connor and Risa get separated from Lev, who travels for a time with another character. Why do you think Shusterman chose to split the narrative into two distinct threads? What do you think this achieves? How does this affect the evolution of the characters?

My thoughts of why he separated them, maybe because by making the book so interesting, and splitting the main characters, having their own parts in the book, and to include a lot more people in it, by not just chucking them in the book but having to introduce them in book by the main characters.

On p125 & 129  the novel touches on same-sex relationships. Has the attitude toward same-sex couples changed (for better or worse) in this futuristic society? Explain your response.  
Well being together, or loving your same-sex in not really a bad thing, or a big deal.

Some people just do it because they just do not like the opposite gender, or they are not into them.

In the future society, anybody can be whatever they want, and I think it will be better if they would be able to live the life they want to live.

P130 begins our journey into understanding a little more about Cy-Fi. Through his character, what do you learn about the effects of unwinding on both the donor and receiver?  

Well for a donor, they would give and offer other people their own organs and any type of other body parts, sometimes donor's may not know that they are dead, because they are being unwound and also don't notice anything that is happening.
Of course the receiver would get given, any type of the unwound's body part and organs. but the donor may not know that they are dead, because the important organ that they give can be given with some control of the donor, just like the brain.

What is the real reason Cy-Fi need to get to Joplin, Mo? Pg 131

Well Cy-Fi has had a donor giving him some of the unwound's brain, his name was Taylor. Cy-Fi was still experiencing all the things he shouldn't be happening to him happening.
The reason why is that was because Taylor, Cy-Fi had to follow what Taylor needed to do.
Which was to get to Joplin, so really Taylor may have been the reason why Cy-Fi had to get to Joplin.

What is the significance of Connor holding in his anger around Roland? Pg 147

Because if Conner did lose his temper, and go crazy on Roland which Roland I think wants Conner to do, Conner would may have done something in a way the could get Roland to do something bad to him.

Connor's anger and lack of impulse control is often a problem for him, until he learns to control and channel his emotions. Do you ever feel like your impulses are stronger than your will? What strategies do you use to control your feelings? Do they work?
Well I never feel like my impulses are stronger then my will, but when it happens I never know that it really gets to me.
Things annoying often happens, for example I would always try to do what they tell me to do, until the moment they tell me I'm doing it wrong when I really know what I am doing.
The way I control the bad feelings are the weirdest ways, just like day dreaming about stuff that makes me happy.
Sometimes it doesn't work but I BELIEVE that my feelings would always be on the good side.

Unwind: Storked

Unwind Storked:

1. Risa overhears two nurses debating law and human nature. Which argument do you think is the stronger? Why do you think this? Write a paragraph explaining your thoughts on law and human nature.

"You can't change laws without first changing human nature." - Nurse Greta

This is a small quote from the book, what I think about this quote, is that it has real meaning to it.

Without changing the way we act, we can't change the laws. It is a good thing to change our human nature, so that we know how to act as we grow older with maturity, and a great life ahead.

There is a similar quote to this it says,

"You can't change human nature without first changing the law." - Nurse Young.

By the information that I have given, this quote can be pronounce the opposite.

This section opens with a mother abandoning her newborn infant on the doorstep of a house in a good neighbourhood. As she leaves, she thinks "How wonderful it is that she can get a second chance. How wonderful it is that she can dismiss her responsibility so easily."

2. In your opinion, by allowing new mothers to give up their children so readily, does it take away from the value of a child?  

In my opinion, I feel like having a mother to give up on their own child shouldn't be allowed in the society, and I also would want to share that, children should not have value either way, by having a mother to have an abortion or just giving up the child.

New born babies, left out in front of random peoples front doors isn't what a baby should experience.

By I definitely agree that new mothers have their own rights in their world to either keep their own child or not.

3. What is the role of a mother? Do you think the title of mother is something that should be earned, or a natural right of the woman who gave birth?

A role of a mother in my opinion, should be earned as a caring, loving mother to her children/child.

Some mothers around the world, sometimes have different decisions when they give birth, some mothers can be young and won't be able to take care of their children/child, or other various reasons.

I believe all mothers love their children, and would always succeed as a mother, by taking such good care of them as they grow up and learn from the best, and would be able to do what they have been learnt.

4. What skills or attributes do Connor and Risa have that work well together?

Conner and Risa are two different people, Conner was a sad person, knowing that his life was stolen at the age of sixteen, but he would always try to experience love with another person.

Risa on the other hand was a type of person that enjoys playing instruments, the main instrument she loved to play was piano.
They are both different, in the book their was a time in the book Ch8 where Risa and Conner had an argument to set up Lev's adherence and to see if he would runaway, soon after all that happened, Risa realizes that Conner is clever.

5. Connor and Lev have very different experiences with storking. How has this helped shape each of their attitudes toward the society they live in?

What I know of about Conner's life when he had experience storked children.
Ever since a baby was left out around doorsteps, Conner would see people walk around the baby until the baby dies, and so on Conner would always care for them.
But Lev on the other hand has never been thinking about it lately.

6. Connor is concerned the baby won't be loved, and ultimately will die, so he takes it. What does this show us about him as a person?  

It definitely shows us he is a loving and caring person for what he had experience with storked babies, he is a type of person that knows how life should be lived, and to show that life is priceless and should always be taken care of.

7. What makes Lev realise he doesn't want to be unwound? P79

I think Lev did not want to be unwound because Pastor Dan called, saying that he Convinced Lev's parents that he was kidnapped, which was somehow God's Will.
Lev was getting to the bit where he was about to be mad at him, Lev still says he is a tithe because he wants and needs to be.
But soon, Lev now realises that he had been played, that he wasn't running away from the kidnappers that day that he did, but he was running away from himself, his parents, and his tithing.

8. Each of the other characters on the run has a tragic background story. Why were Hayden, Roland and Mai set to be unwound? Which, do you think, is the most tragic? Explain your response.


From my point of view, all these three characters have tragic stories.
But the main person I really admire is Hayden, because the life he has been through has been such a bad experience.
His parents would always argue and fight, they would have Hayden unwound then to have either of them in custody. The way they are treating their own child isn't what I think called Parents or Loving Parents.

9. What tattoo does Roland have?

Roland has a Tiger Shark Tattoo on his arm.

Dystopian Literature

Dystopian Literature:

According to the Science-Fiction Dictionary Brave New Words, dystopian literature is "an imagined society or state of affairs in which conditions are extremely bad, especially in which these conditions result from the continuation of some current trend to an extreme." 

 

Name three synonyms for dystopia.

1. Antonym of utopia
2. Suffer
3. Nasty

What is the antonym for dystopia?

1. Extremely Good
2. A good place

Dystopian Origins and characteristics

Dystopia is a relatively new genre, but has deeply rooted origins dating back to Thomas More's 1516 text Utopia. Dystopia fiction often comes about when major events happen in the world (WWII, the rise of communism, major advances in technology).  

Defining features of dystopia include:

• Full Government control
• Citizens relinquishing all rights
• Seemingly perfect societies with a dark side to them
• The rise of technology, and how it overtakes humanity
• Citizens have a fear of the outside world
• Citizens worship one leader
• Citizens live in a dehumanised state

Types of Dystopian Controls:

• Corporate control: One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media.  
• Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials.  
• Technological control: Society is controlled by technology—through computers, robots, and/or scientific means.  
• Philosophical/religious control: Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government.  

Which dystopian novels have you read?  

I have never have been reading any type of dystopian novels, but I have heard of some of them and I feel like I have watch some.

How many others can you name?  

I know one famous favourite dystopian novel, which is called "The Hunger Games" I have not red the book but have watch the movie.

FAMOUS DYSTOPIAN TEXTS:

• 1984 - George Orwell - often seen as the definitive text - 'Big Brother is watching you
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - once again an earlier example of dystopian literature
• A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess - Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation was banned in the U.K for twenty-five years until 1999 due to its "ultra-violence' and copycat crimes. Burgess claims he regrets ever having published the book.  

Examining the Cover

Must Do Questions:

Looking at the original cover to the right, answer the following questions, remember to explain why you think that for each answer:

• How do you think this story will be written? By the looks of the cover I feel like the story will be written in some type of way that can somehow change peoples emotion, because the way it looks it sort of looks like a transformation from normal to powerful.
• Why do you think the story is entitled as it is? Maybe because the way the title is named and the what everything looks outside the covers of the book, goes well with what the story is telling.
• Where do you think the story will take place? I feel like the story will take place in a very dark scary cave or place, I think that because the cover of the book and black and red which seems scary.
• What time period do you think the story is set in? I believe this story was set in I think 2006 or 2007, and I say that because this story was before the hunger games was published in 2008 which should be written 1 or 2 years before the hunger games.

Human Rights

What I already knew:
That everyone around the world don't have human rights and that they can be still slaves or be torture and maybe not have been educated.
And they won't be successful in life and won't even be able to get a job.

What I found interesting:
Around the whole world I did not know that a lot of people did not have human rights, and that we are so lucky we are living in a country where there are no slaves, and most of us with human rights don't know the rest of the people are struggling with no jobs or being educated.

What I'd like to learn:
How does it feel without human rights and what will happen if I don't have human rights.