The Choice is Yours
How would you like to alter the future? Let me say, you already do. Every day, you do something whether it's sitting on a couch, going to school, taking care of family, etc. But whatever you choose, something else follows in the path from what you chose earlier that day. For instance if you go to school, you will learn something, if you take care of family, that family member will thank you. Every day, you make a choice. And every day, you have a choice. Whatever choice you choose, something else follows it whether it’s good or bad, but whenever we make a change, make a choice, do an action, it can have an impact (big or small) on someone else. The dystopian novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman is about teenagers (Connor, Risa, …show more content…
Near the end of the book, Lev and two other friends decide to blow up (by putting explosive liquid into their hands- clapping them allows the liquid to explode) the place where the juvey cops take unwinds to get unwound, except for the fact that Lev could not bring himself to do it, Shusterman uses actions to put the reader in a very intense moment and feeling anxious about the scene, but slowing it down to what seems like seconds, “”He holds his hands up before him. He holds his hands up before him. He holds his hands up before him. And he cannot bring them together. He wants to. He needs to. But he can't (310)." By showing that Lev is not able to detonate and harm himself along with everyone there, the reader has understood that Lev has changed and is not only thinking about himself, but processing what would happen to others from his actions. When Lev actually has to make a life or death choice, and fast, the impact of the chaos going on (since the other two friends already detonated) and being in Lev’s perspective, the book almost slows down for the reader just for those few seconds. This allows the readers to focus on and really grasp what’s at stake here. Shusterman includes this brief slow moment to make us really grasp what is happening there and what the characters are going through. This also shows that because …show more content…
She introduces the character Nelson by surrounding his backstory with many actions that has molded him into the person he is today. An example of this is when Connor was running away because he was about to be unwound, but then crosses paths with some juvey cops and later shoots a juvey cop with his own tranq gun (a weapon that does not kill a person, just makes them pass out), and all of this leads to how Nelson is living today, but all that changed on the day the Akron AWOL took him out with his own tranq gun. The text states, “Nearly a year later, he can't get the image of Connor Lassiter out of his mind: that smug, arrogant look on his face as he shot the tranq bullet into Nelson's leg. (120)” This shows the readers a bit of how he was feeling when Connor shot him that day, but what happened to him afterwards was much worse than anyone could expect, “So Connor Lassiter became legend and Nelson lost his job, and self-respect. Even his wife left him. (120)" and, “If the Juvenile authority didn't want him, he would be in business for himself. (120)”. By using both of the passages, Shusterman uses the feelings and actions of Nelson to give the reader a feel for what it’s like to have your wife/husband leave you, looses your job, and be on your own for life. It is hard to imagine that in a place like ours, people will not take a person
How would you like to alter the future? Let me say, you already do. Every day, you do something whether it's sitting on a couch, going to school, taking care of family, etc. But whatever you choose, something else follows in the path from what you chose earlier that day. For instance if you go to school, you will learn something, if you take care of family, that family member will thank you. Every day, you make a choice. And every day, you have a choice. Whatever choice you choose, something else follows it whether it’s good or bad, but whenever we make a change, make a choice, do an action, it can have an impact (big or small) on someone else. The dystopian novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman is about teenagers (Connor, Risa, …show more content…
Near the end of the book, Lev and two other friends decide to blow up (by putting explosive liquid into their hands- clapping them allows the liquid to explode) the place where the juvey cops take unwinds to get unwound, except for the fact that Lev could not bring himself to do it, Shusterman uses actions to put the reader in a very intense moment and feeling anxious about the scene, but slowing it down to what seems like seconds, “”He holds his hands up before him. He holds his hands up before him. He holds his hands up before him. And he cannot bring them together. He wants to. He needs to. But he can't (310)." By showing that Lev is not able to detonate and harm himself along with everyone there, the reader has understood that Lev has changed and is not only thinking about himself, but processing what would happen to others from his actions. When Lev actually has to make a life or death choice, and fast, the impact of the chaos going on (since the other two friends already detonated) and being in Lev’s perspective, the book almost slows down for the reader just for those few seconds. This allows the readers to focus on and really grasp what’s at stake here. Shusterman includes this brief slow moment to make us really grasp what is happening there and what the characters are going through. This also shows that because …show more content…
She introduces the character Nelson by surrounding his backstory with many actions that has molded him into the person he is today. An example of this is when Connor was running away because he was about to be unwound, but then crosses paths with some juvey cops and later shoots a juvey cop with his own tranq gun (a weapon that does not kill a person, just makes them pass out), and all of this leads to how Nelson is living today, but all that changed on the day the Akron AWOL took him out with his own tranq gun. The text states, “Nearly a year later, he can't get the image of Connor Lassiter out of his mind: that smug, arrogant look on his face as he shot the tranq bullet into Nelson's leg. (120)” This shows the readers a bit of how he was feeling when Connor shot him that day, but what happened to him afterwards was much worse than anyone could expect, “So Connor Lassiter became legend and Nelson lost his job, and self-respect. Even his wife left him. (120)" and, “If the Juvenile authority didn't want him, he would be in business for himself. (120)”. By using both of the passages, Shusterman uses the feelings and actions of Nelson to give the reader a feel for what it’s like to have your wife/husband leave you, looses your job, and be on your own for life. It is hard to imagine that in a place like ours, people will not take a person