Part Six-Unwound
For your ease of mind, there are a variety of harvest camps to choose from.
Each facility is privately owned, state licensed, and federally funded by your tax dollars. Regardless of the site you choose, you can feel confident that your Unwind will receive the finest possible care from our board-certified staff as they make their transition to a divided state.
-From The Parents' Unwinding Handbook
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While at Harvest Camp, cameras film what the unwinds do at all times. This is an Orwellian concept, and happens in 1984. It is also increasingly popular in our world to have 24hr CCTV coverage of most places.
Rehabilitation Centres and Prisons: The group counselling, daily physical activities and strict diet are similar to many rehab centres for people recovering from substance abuse, or a mental health issue. They are also quite similar to many modern prisons.
The Happy Jack Harvest Camp looked like a hotel in Hawaii, sunny, filled with palm trees and surrounded with a beautiful view, the interior filled with bright pastel colours and staff clothed in summer Hawaiian clothing.
What is the exact percentage of the Unwind that you have to keep alive? Why is it not 100%, as Risa believes? P269
The exact amount of body parts to be kept alive is 99.44% this due to the appendix having no purpose in the body.
What do the unwinds call the place where unwinding occurs? P271
They call it the "Chop shop", this is because of the place where chopping the body parts occur.
Lev too is at Happy Jack, but as a tithe. Why is this?
When Lev volunteered for the pipeline job he was caught but it has been decided to keep him as a tithe since they blamed Connor for his escape.
On p278 Connor and Roland finally, have the fight that's been brewing between them. What does each character realise during this?
That fighting doesn't solve anything and has no point in doing since their both getting unwind anyway.
P284 - What group has Lev joined, who recruited him, and when will they follow out their plan?
Lev got recruited by a group called the "clappers", suicide bombers that have explosive blood that can be detonated by clapping. Lev had no control of the plan only Blaine had the say.
Roland is called for unwinding on p286. Why is this?
He thought it was the reason for hitting one of the staff with a volleyball but it was because his blood type AB was really rare.
Chapter 61 is arguably the most confronting chapter in the book. Here we have Roland's first person narrative of being unwound. Do you think this chapter is necessary?
I think this is necessary for the story to educate the audience on what it's like to be unwound.
Why do you think Shusterman chose to have Roland's experience detailed? So the readers gain information on what's going to happen to the soul during the procedure and know what it feels like during that time. He also could've done this to show more of Roland's past so readers can change their mind towards him or towards unwinding.
Do his memories alter how you view him?
After reading the chapter my hate towards Roland decreased although it didn't make me stop hating him. No matter what happens his attitude and behaviour towards other people in the past still makes me despise him.
Why does Lev decide not to clap? P310
The stronger side of Lev wasn't allowing him to detonate the bomb because he knows what he's doing is wrong. Connor also is part of the reason since he and Lev had history and Lev wanted to save him like he had saved Lev.
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