Sympathy For Roland In Unwind By Neal Shusterman

The novel “End of Days” by Eric Walters starts off with a Soviet satellite’s travels. It first traveled to Jupiter and eventually left our solar system. The satellite reached a huge asteroid with the diameter of 500 kilometers roughly 1/6 the diameter of the moon. The satellite orbited the asteroid, just by accident the satellite’s messages were received on earth. Those messages revealed that the satellite was on its way home and the asteroid was coming with it. If it hit earth all of life on earth cease, if it missed then the earth would be pushed too close to the sun and life would never be able to survive on Earth again. An organization called the International Aerospace Research Institute planned to use the nuclear weapons of every nuclear-capable

Have you ever read or heard a story that made your heart hammer, your knees grow weak, and leave you jumping at shadows? Well, Edgar Allan Poe, a mystery and horror story writer, has written some of the most descriptive and eerie murder stories that can leave you quaking. One of his most sinister works is the “Tell-Tale Heart”. Edgar Allan Poe uses time, repetition, noises, setting, and imagery to effectively create a spooky and disturbing atmosphere in his works. These aspects creates the realistically scary feeling...but how does he apply all that in his writing?

On September 11th 2001, 70 years old Rita Laser lost her brother. Along with Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber who as well lost someone special to them in the attack. Many of the victims families hid in silence after the attack, full of sadness, the government was trying to get revenge for the victims that were lost in the attack. However Rita Laser had a different outlook, she and others did not want revenge by killing other, her, Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber were all trying to install peace into the world not start a war. In Sue Halpern’s “A Peaceful Mourning” describes that in the aftermath of the attack they have all devoted their lives into advocating peace throughout the world, in their lost one’s name.

In the novel The Promise, written by Chaim Potok, a multi-layered plot with vivid word choices, well thought out characters, and suspense adds up to create an amazing book. The Promise is centered around the life of a young Jewish man named Reuven. It consists of three books, the first concentrates on the summer where Reuven and Rachel date each other and Reuven meets Rachel's cousin Michael. By the end of the summer, Michael enrolls in a mental treatment center. During the second book, Reuven continues his education at seminary and Michael's condition worsens. Reuven's time at the seminary grows more challenging as his professor, Rav Kalman, clearly does not agree with Reuven's beliefs on certain issues. Lastly, the third focuses around the finishing of Reuven's education and Michael reunites with his family. Rav Kalman and Reuven eventually find a common ground between each other and respect each others position on certain topics of their faith.

Unwind is a book filled with three main characters who are escaping their “fate” of being unwound. Unwinding is a process in which every part of a child between the ages thirteen to eighteen is removed and donated to others in need of a healthy limb or organ. Connor is one of the main characters, he found out that he was going to be unwound because he found a bill his parent’s paid to go to the Bahamas, without him. He decides to rebel against his destiny and runs away from home, encountering some other characters and conflicts along the way.

or this project we viewed the original 1957 version of Twelve Angry Men, an American Drama, adapted from the teleplay written by Reginald Rose with the same name starring Henry Fonda as the lead role.

In my book Torn by David Massey a girl nicknamed Buffy applied for the united states army as a medic. Buffy was sent to Afghanistan where she found herself going on daily missions where she was fighting and suppose to be saving people's lives. Instead Buffy was putting people's live on the line. she had tried to manipulate IEDs, negotiate with children that wanted to killer her, and stood up to many highly ranked military officers. Throughout this all she was seeing weird things that only kept on confusing her more and more as she sou and heard more about them.

In the article “In Pursuit Of Unhappiness” by Darrin McMahon (2005) he informs the reader that you don't have to make it a happy new year you could make someone else's year happy. McMahon supports his claim with using quotes from a lot of different people.His purpose is to tell the reader that you don't need to have a happy you could make someone else's year happy. McMahon supports his claim by using quotes from many different people. His purpose is to educate the reader that you don't need to be happy in order to make your year happy.McMahon uses a didactic relationship with his audience of middle aged americans. I agree with McMahon and how don't alwasy have to have a happy new year instead you could make some one elses year happy.In my

The phrase “bankrupt General Motors,” which we expect to hear uttered on Monday, leaves Americans my age in economic shock. The words are as melodramatic as “Mom’s nude photos.” And, indeed, if we want to understand what doomed the American automobile, we should give up on economics and turn to melodrama.

According to Egan, “Never let the kids see you sweat” (2006, p.1). The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan was announced as “a classical disaster tale” by the New York Times. This book was written to inform everyone about the untold story of those who survived the American Dust Bowl. The story documents how the darkest years of the Great Depression affected the economy and the people’s living environment as well. Egan’s book explains the importance of the Great Depression. Within this theme, Egan explores the struggle of survival and the broken promises made by the government.

Social change comes from a societies understanding and acceptance of controversial topics, laws that enforce social norms and the politics that play a role in such change. The author Gerald Rosenberg of “The Hollow Hope” believes that the Supreme Court is able to bring about social change. Rosenburg main argument seemed to be questioning if a courts ruling that had once been accepted and had standing for several years were to be over turned, would the environment outside of the courtroom suddenly change and be accepting of their division.

The book in Contempt was written by Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is a famous environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author on the subject of corporate sustainability. In his book, Paul Hawken charges business and industry as, one, the major culprit in causing the deterioration of the biosphere, and, two, the only institution that is large, pervasive and powerful enough, to really lead humankind out of this situation. The book focus on the total of damage to the ecosystem and the risks that it poses for mankind. Environmental risks comes from in the extinction of many different species, and many species have already become extinct due to human. All and every species is a part of the ecosystem and each species play a role in the global system. When

The first example is how noise levels affect children. “Noise levels also indirectly influence children’s cognitive development via their effect on the adults and teachers who interact with children.” (Source F). Other people do not think noise can affect children but in some cases it can. The next example also deals with loud noise but it goes into depth about the things that happen in the body. “Children exposed to chronic loud noise also experience a rise in blood pressure and stress hormones. And children as young as four are less motivated to perform on challenging language and pre-reading tasks under conditions of exposure to chronic noises” (Source F). This shows how noise levels can affect things like stress hormones which can make the child act differently then they normally would. In the book Unwind, Roland changes from the beginning of the book to the end. “Like Connor, Roland got into fights at school…That’s not what did him in, thought. Roland had beaten up his stepfather for beating his mom…” (Shusterman 99). “Roland looks at the hand that came so close to taking Connor’s life. He wasn’t able to go through with it-and he seems just as surprised as Connor” (Shusterman 279). Even though Roland was unwound, he has changed completely. Anyone who has read the book would have expected Connor to die because Roland is capable of killing him. In the end, Roland did not kill Connor because he is not the same person he was from the beginning of the book. Another example from the book is when Pastor Dan tells Lev that he is not responsible for what he has done or almost done. “‘You may be responsible for your actions,’ Pastor Dan says… ‘That was my fault-and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe.” (Shusterman 328). Pastor Dan explains to Lev that the people around him have caused him to become what he was, a clapper. The examples

In the novel Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, the common theme tackle adversity when times get rough is conveyed throughout the story. Many events that occur often show many adversity the slaves had to overcome by accepting horrific punishments. For instance, when Sarny the protagonist of the story begins to learn new letters and words from Nightjohn, she gets very excited that she scribbled the word “Bag” in the dirt, but was caught doing so by the slaves’ master Clel Waller. “ Tell what your doing… I didn’t say anything… What are you scribbling in the dirt… I thought I’ll lie (Paulsen 62). Sarny was caught scribbling the new word, and she tried to avoid the trouble she had just created, by lying to Waller. Although, Sarny had thought for a mere second that her

LGBTQ social movements have evolved over time from liberationist politics of the 1970s to an enormous contemporary focus on gay and lesbian marriage rights, a controversial and arguably assimilationist priority for mainstream LGBTQ advocacy groups. Different forms of activism have approached assimilationism versus societal reformation or preservation of unique constructions of queer identities with a myriad of arguments. In “The Trouble with Normal” by Michael Warner, the author focuses primarily on a criticism of gay marriage rights activism in which he posits that all marriage is “selective legitimacy.” He points to other LGBT movements and issues as more worthy of pursuing, particularly intersectional pursuits of equal rights for people regardless of coupled status. In “Marital Discord: Understanding the Contested Place of Marriage in the Lesbian and Gay Movement” authors Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor give a snapshot history of LGBTQ activism since the 1970s and offer similar arguments as Warner about the heteronormative and neoliberal nature of placing the fight for legal marriage rights at the forefront of LGBTQ activism, although they do also introduce emerging improvements with the increasingly intersectional awareness of modern advocacy efforts.