Character Analysis: Unwind

It was like seeing a man walking to his own execution. This was an offense that warranted jail time. Before the Captain would get his side of the story, he spoke to the man’s leading petty officer and chief to get their accounts on the man’s character. They told their story of how he was a good worker with a great attitude.

Authors in many instances use the main elements in the story such as setting and narrative to prove a point in the story. For example, writers often use characters, their actions, and their interaction with other characters to support or prove a theme. In the short story “Our Thirteenth Summer”, Barry Callaghan effectively uses characters to develop the theme that childhood is fragile and easily influenced. One of the ways that Callaghan makes effective use of characters to develop the theme is by describing the tension between Bobbie and his parents. This usage of characters supports the theme because Bobbie’s childhood is no longer free to do what he wishes, but has to bow down to his parents’

The main protagonist in Unwind is Connor Lassiter, a sixteen year old rebel who found his unwind order form when looking for a stapler in his dad office. Connor was a rebellious teenager who got into fights with his parents and at school. He is stubborn, impulsive, and very easily angered, which means he often loses his temper. He has three emergency modes, while most people have two. Fight or Flight. Connors has fight, flight, or screw up royally. As the stores progress Connor becomes more rational and is able to control his anger, of course this is with the help of Risa. Now in the whole series the main antagonist is the whole idea of being unwound. However each book has their own antagonist other than being unwound, in Unwind its Roland Taggart. When Roland and Connor first meet they both have a mutual dislike for one another. Roland is very similar to Connor in the sense that they were both troublemaker, expect Roland was much worse than Connor. Roland was sent to be unwound because he beat up his stepdad for beating up his mom, which in turn his mom sided with the stepdad. Roland puts up a tough front but he is just as scared as everyone else when it comes to being unwinding.

The novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman is about three teens who are set to be a part of the unwinding society. A significant character in the novel is Connor and he shows his significance through the thought provoking idea of survival. In the novel, Connor shows his survival through three key events. These events are when Connor goes to kidnap Lev to save him from being tithed, when Connor is running from the police and his father in the bus crash and when he takes over the graveyard to help save as many teens as possible from being unwound.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines takes place in 1940’s, a time period of segregation. This was a time when blacks were often at fault for a crime they did not commit, such as what transpired in this book. A man named Jefferson was convicted of a crime he did not commit and was insulted during court. Now his family, friends, and even Jefferson himself were trying to prove the white community wrong about their beliefs that a black man is unequal and lacks dignity against Jefferson and the black community. Not only is Jefferson going through a period of suffering on death row, but others, like Grant Wiggins and Miss Emma, are also facing their struggles and they will try to prove others wrong and redeem themselves through knowledge,

A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines tells the story of a black man, Jefferson, with unequal rights, being accused of killing a white man. Although, the accusation was far from being right, he is a black man, and blacks were treated unfairly. Throughout the journey of the trial, Jefferson and Grant became very close, and they both learned a lot from each other and the trial. Grant learns the lesson of being a man, because he develops feelings, and becomes humble.

Oh how he missed Eden . Yet before the his eyes could feast on the girl he so missed, Westley noticed something inconceivable. A barrage of pirate vessels in the distance. Skull and crossbones flown on each ship, shrouding the sea in a deep black shadow. Suddenly, the pirate general emerged, as if this one ship pillaged time itself. “King Black Beard” It seemed his name slid off every man's tongue on Wesley's ship, as if the words were heavy ash, leaving a swell of smoke in one's mouth. Battle alarms silenced the brave soldiers, yet they were one ship vs many. Defeat was inevitable. Nothing could stop the band of marauders from destroying the ship. It seemed no one would survive. For each soldier had heard the pirates policy, NO PRISONERS. A single shot was fired, and then suddenly a clash of bullets followed. The Unsinkable was lost to the great blue

Unwind is a novel written by Neal Shusterman . Which is about three runaways who sceduled to be put to rest or unwound. The whole novel is narrated in third person but changes throughout the book depending on the situation. The story takes place in Akron,Ohio in an urban like atmosprere but same as the narrator this changes throughout the story also. In this story you'll see the characters going through things within themselves causing internal conflict.

Admiral Dunfee, similarly, is affected by his past. When the novel first introduces the Admiral, he is portrayed as a cold-hearted dictator in charge of hundreds of Unwinds, but there is a reason the Admiral comes off as distant. When the Unwinds first arrive at The Graveyard, they are expected to

Has there ever been a situation where you did not have the ability to come to terms with reality and gave in to the pressure. Well, the ability not being able to cope with a situation is something that can greatly vary from person to person. Some people have had the discipline in life to withstand great amounts of emotional, physical, and/or mental pressure. Where others can crack with the slightest amount of pressure placed on them. What truly decides a person’s ability to cope and deal with a situation comes from their upbringing and who they are as a person.

In the book Free to Fall by Lauren Miller the quote, "Character is what you are in the dark", Dwight Lyman Moody, is best represented by the characters, Rory Vaughn and North Pascal. My interpretation of the quote is, you are most yourself when you are alone. They are both in situations where they cannot be themselves to the public and alone are completely different people. Rory can hear "the doubt", a voice children have been told is a mental illness all their lives.

Being an “other” in America is difficult, as the Huang family accurately portrays in Fresh off The Boat. The struggle of keeping a balance between an American identity and a Chinese identity is a burden on individuals. The series is based on the experiences of Eddie Huang, a Chinese-American man, and his family. As a first-person account, his experiences cannot be applied to all Asian Americans. Despite this, there are common characteristics that arise with having an Asian American identity.

Before I really get into the character analysis, you sort of have to understand what this series is about, and what Cam is. In the series Unwind, it's a different world, where parents cannot abort a baby, but when their child turns 13 they can decide to unwind it. Unwinding is the process where they take all of the parts from a living human apart. People can then use those parts. They can use everything (skin, cells, tissue, arms, blood,).