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Tuesday 26 February 2019

Exploring the Blurb

In English we have been doing a novel study. The book we are studying is Unwind. One of our task was to examine the blurb of the book. Here is my work:

Unwind blurb: The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called "unwinding". Unwinding is now common, and accepted , practice in society

In the not-too-distant future, teens Connor, Risa, and Lev are on the run for their lives. Following the Second Civil War, between pro-choice and pro-life forces, the United States now allows parents to unwind their unwanted and difficult kids between the ages of thirteen and eighteen: Their bodies are surgically taken apart and all the organs and tissue are used in other people. According to the law, the kids aren't considered dead, they're "living in a divided state." But Connor, Risa, and Lev, and thousands of other teens slated for "unwinding", don't see it that way. They choose instead to "kick AWOL," or run away. Unwind follows these three across the country as they travel together, split up, and meet again when their destinies cross in a Harvest Camp where they are slated to be unwound.


  1. What do you already know about pro-life and pro-choice groups? What do these terms mean? Is it an issue you have thought about? Pro-life is when people believe that everyone has the right to live and pro-choice is believing that things like abortion are okay.
  2. What do you know about organ donation?  That people can chose to donate their organs when they die
  3. Teenagers to be unwound are sent to Harvest Camps. Can you make a connection between the language used to describe this place, and other places people have been sent historically? Other place people could have been sent are concentration camps in world war
  4. What religious connotation does the word 'harvest' evoke? I'm not sure
  5. The term "living in a divided state" here is really a euphemism for what? Can you think of other, common euphemisms? Why do people use euphemisms?
  6. What is the definition of legal?  your allowed to do it
  7. What about ethical? if it is morally right
  8. Do you believe that because something is legal, it is also ethical, or morally right? no there are plenty of legal things I do not necessarily think are ethical.
  9. Can things that are ethically sound ever be illegal? Provide examples. I don't really know
  10. Can you think of examples in history to support your ideas? Provide examples.

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