unwind

In the novel unwind by Neil Shusterman shows us a world where abortion is banned. As result of that there is a huge population of unwanted children. To deal with the overgrowing population the government have passed a law called the ‘bill of life’. This law states that a child can be signed over by their parents to get unwound which means getting dissected into vivisections. Then their body parts are donated to others in need. In this society one of the main conflict are the AWOL teenagers. This conflict leads the audience to three other conflicts man vs self, man vs nature and man vs society.
Man vs self-conflict is when a person goes through a mental and physical struggle. In the novel Connor who is one of the unwind goes through this conflict. This conflict starts when he decides to run away from his house because he had been signed over to be unwound by his parents. When Connor and his two friends are running away Connor learns to control his overwhelming anger.we know this because when Roland is trying to rape Lisa (Connor’s friend) connor notices and wals away making Lisa angry. At the start we see that Connor is a really rebellious but as he travels with his friends he learns to control over his anger. This was really necessary because later on in the novel this quality helps Connor become the new caption of the -----.

Man vs. Self - Connor

Man vs. Self is a type of conflict where a character in the book is up against themselves through mental and physical struggles. In the book, Connor goes through many struggles and conflicts with himself. From the very beginning of the book he had to make an extremely tough decision; one that would change his life forever. "'We should run away,' Ariana says," (Shusterman 4). Connor's friend Ariana suggests that they should run away to escape his unwinding. He had agreed to leave home and "kick AWOL", leading a new life running away from the Juvey Cops. His decision to leave without Ariana in the end may have