Unwind By Neale Hesterman Analysis

Unwind, by Neal Shusterman is based in the near future after a second civil war which was fought over abortions. The story is based around three different characters, Conor a troublesome boy who gets into too many fights, Risa a girl raised by the state ward who is no longer making the state cuts, and Lev the tenth child of a family who gives 10% of everything they own. All three are to be unwinded. Unwinding is a process when a child who is thirteen to eighteen years old, has their limbs, tissues, blood, organs or any vital part of the body harvested and given to someone who needs them. The reason this is done is because of a compromise that ended the second civil war. The compromise was called The Bill of Life and stated that a life could