Unwinding Your Child

Unwinding your child seems, in the beginning anyway, to be an easy decision. Some parents have children just so they can unwind them. You ask the question of identity. How would you give yourself an identity if you knew you were going to be unwound. Now, I know you don't always know that you were going to be unwound but still the thought of knowing that at any moment all your parents had to do was sign a piece of paper and your off to "Happy Jack Harvest Camp" or one like it. 

We see our three main characters develop throughout the story and we see them try to identify who they are. We start with what seems to be the most important character thought the whole story, Connor. When you are unwound there is the great debates as to whether or not you are just another body part to that person of it they take on your abilities; it seems that you take on their specific abilities. Connor is seen in the beginning as just another Unwind kid who is no good, rule-breaker, and lacks any sort of real important talent. Throughout the novel he gets turned into an authority character. It is overly important to act or be confident in yourself. You don't want to seen as if you a weakling or your unwinding will come a lot sooner. Connor goes thought plenty of tries to escapes to try to break free and no be unwound; and of course he breaks tons of laws and rules though.

Risa is another important character in the book. She is introduced as just another unwind. She was a State Home, or StaHo, kid who was told she would grow up to be nothing. She is taught to play piano and plays it very well which helps her stay alive on occasion. She is caught up with Connor in the beginning when Connor causes an accident and takes her and another boy named Lev. She doesn't care for either one in the beginning and they all seem to hate one another. We see her define herself throughout the novel  by becoming a mother figure to a baby they are forced with, also becoming an "older sister" to Lev. And she becomes a medic in the Graveyard that they are forced into. Later on in the novel she does not become unwound due to how Lev saves them in the end by making her paralyzed which means she cannot be unwound. She would rather be paralyzed from the waist down or otherwise get another half of someone else's body and then later, when healthy, become unwound.

The last kid, Lev, is kind of thrown through a lot. He was told at a very young age that his parents had him for the sole purpose that he could become unwound. When he is kidnapped by Rise and Connor he tells them that he wants to be unwound cause that is what God created him for. Now I believe that's what his parents taught him all through growing up. He changes his opinion though the novel by helping out Connor to become more then just an unwound kid. The biggest turning point through the whole book for him is when he starts really thinking about what will happen to him and he wants to save himself, and the others who saved him from the beginning.