Unwind Character Analysis

SUMMARY-In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini fights as a bombardier in World War II. Louie ends up crashing one of his planes and is forced to face the brutal struggles of the ocean. Finding land after 47 days of being stranded, Louie becomes a prisoner of war to the Japanese. He is beaten, starved, and worked to near death where he learns how to survive anything that is thrown at him. He becomes resilient which is what led him to survive.

In Unwind, Connor and Risa changed from at first running away from the juvey cops, and being scared. But after their meeting with Sonia and sending a letter to their parents, they understood that they couldn’t hold on to the past. So Connor and Risa traveled to the graveyard where they met the admiral and Roland, (a troublemaker that ended up almost killing them) where they found their purpose in helping other unwinds turn eighteen. After all the interactions with the government, and Lev blowing up Happy Jack, Connor and Risa stand up against the government to try to stop unwinding forever.

Unwinds are taught to be look down upon, and basically are said to be and have descriptions such as, useless, unintellectual, bully, trouble maker, disappointment, etc. "In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, but this isn't a perfect world", this quote is from Connor when he's thinking about how the world isn't perfect in his eyes, as mothers don't want their babies. Connor knows his world isn't perfect, as he thinks he is an example of that. In Unwind it really shows how the norm or in the specific case of the book society itself thinks unwinds should be unwound, but the people that are being unwound think oppositely. In a real world situation it seems justified that you wouldn't want to have yourself taken apart for not acting a certain way the society might want you to, but in Connor's case it isn't justified by society. There are many unwinds which are selected by their parents to be unwound at an early age such as five or six. Most younger teens and adolescents are wanted to be unwound by their parents due to them doing something wrong once, which is really unfair as one mistake can literally cost your life. There are also babies which are to be unwound at their birth, which are called tithes, which are children to which are to be unwound when they're born usually due to parents which have religious beliefs, which is something one of the main

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.

In Unwind the reader notices how ignoring what’s happening around you, or accepting the things that have become typical in the world isn’t always the right thing to do. Connor, Risa and Lev all have certain skills that set them apart from the others, allowing the reader to connect to different characters on different levels. Each character in the story served a specific purpose in showing the importance of teamwork, observance, protecting oneself, and being kind to others, to show the reader how one's life is all dependent on the small decisions we

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The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

"Anything Goes" is a comedy, romance, and drama filled musical. In this play there are several different characters with their own plots and problems. All the plots later intertwine somehow as the characters interact with each other. The main character, Reno is a stage performer who is the main performer in "The Angels", a group of "evangelist" showgirls. Reno is in love with Billy. Billy is a businessman working for Elisha Whitney. Billy is also in love with a girl named Hope Harcore. Hope is engaged to a wealthy English man named Lord Evelyn, but she secretly loves Billy. Billy is supposed to be in New York doing work after he drops Elisha's passport off, but then he realizes Hope is on the boat. He sneaks onto the boat using an extra passport and ticket from a "pastor" who is actually a famous mobster named Moon Face Martin. He is trying to win Hope over. Reno and Moon are helping Billy stay under cover while getting to Hope. All of these characters interact which each other as they are all on the same boat and all have different purposes. In a turn of events, Reno and Evelyn fall in love. This helps Hope and Billy be able to get married, but Hope's mom, Evangeline, insists Hope marries Evelyn for his money. Elisha ends up receiving a large profit for a deal and Evangeline Harcore changes her mind. A triple marriage ceremony concludes the musical as Hope and Billy, Reno and Evelyn, and Evangeline and Elisha become married couples. This show is filled with plot twists,

All refugees, the circumstances notwithstanding, face immense hardship throughout their lives. In time, these hardships give way to new opportunities, dreams, and perspectives, as even in the face of suffering, one always retains their intrinsic self. Kim Ha, the protagonist in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, experienced this through her family’s daring escape from war-torn South Vietnam. Consequently, Inside Out and Back Again serves as a fitting title for her story.

Arn Chorn-Pond is the main character in the book “Never fall down”. At the start of the book we meet Arn as a kind and slick person, but later when he and his family gets forced to follow Khmer Rouge. Under these four years he becomes a man and learn to hide his emotions. From kind, slick and a young boy that doesn’t know much, he becomes an intelligent, kind man with the heart on the right place and a real fighter.

The contemporary classic novel Speak, profounds a girl, Melinda Sordino, entering freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Unlike regular students, Melinda isolates herself from the society after a devastating event that she had experienced. Through her perspective, we enter her world of depression as she struggles her way through the school year. From her eyes we see the way she sees life, hear the ways others described her and enter her mind on how she thinks of the world. On a journey of gaining back herself, bad things turn worse, as that one person enters her life again. ‘It’, who made her fall into misery, ‘It’ who destroyed her once happy life. Melinda fights not only with herself, but It, the school, the world. The only thing that she feels comfortable in doing is art, where she drew trees to Anderson will definitely make you laugh throughout her book, however along holds undeniable sadness as we watch Melinda heals her way through her trauma that doesn’t seem to leave her.

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.

The structure in Unwind by Neal Shusterman is different than any other I have seen before. This books starts out with giving a little bit of background focusing on the three main characters until they all meet up. Connor is first introduced as a crazy sixteen year-old boy who discovered that he was to be Unwound. He runs away and hides in a cargo truck until he was found by his dad and the police. He ultimately has to make quick decisions to run across the interstate and pull another Unwind out of a car. Secondly, Risa is shown playing the piano in her State Home. The person in charge or whatever finds her inadequate and has her sent to be Unwound. While on a bus to her new Harvest Camp, a commotion occurs in the street causing the bus to flip

The actors that I will be discussing is Jenna Taylor, who plays Savannah Honeycutt. Another actor that I will be discussing is Charlotte Malone, who plays Hayley Quinn. Last but not less Alexis Bryner, who plays Norleen Sprunt. Savannah Honeycutt is the daughter that is successful and don’t have a boyfriend because of her mother. Hayley Quinn is the daughter in law that is the braid to be. Norleen Sprunt is the mother that is always in your business. The three characters that I choose was great characters. I choose these three characters because they were the funniest out through the play. They stay in scene with ever change that made. Even though they were the main focus of the play, other characters was funny. In every scene something happened

In the novel Catch Me If You Can by Frank William Abagnale, Frank is a well defined static character. Even though he faces different challenges throughout the novel, he remains the same a the end of the story as he was in the beginning. Being said this, he still continued to run away from his problems and did cons. He is a confident individual who ran away from home at a young age to find a life for himself. Frank is a smart, young and charismatic boy. During his early teen years, his parents started to go through a divorce, which left him torn between whom to choose to stay with. After learning about the divorce that was about to take place, Frank decides to runaway. Frank states, “One June morning of 1964, I woke up and knew it was time to go.