First Lit Discussion

      Our first lit discussion was fairly successful. Everyone was engaged and contributed to the discussion. In our discussion we talked about the characters and how we felt about them. We talked about each character's personalities and how they became unwinds.
      We talked about why Lev would want to be unwound so bad. I don't understand why parents would raise their child, then have them salvaged for body parts when they are old enough. I think that Lev is very confused. One minute unwinding seems like a dream to him, but when pastor Dan tell him to run, he is suddenly confused. We think that Lev is a little crazy in the head and deserves to be be unwound.
      We also talked about the storking initiative, a law that lets teenage parents to put their child on someones doorstep. When someone opens the door and sees the baby, it would legally be theirs. I thought that was kind of wrong. Someone else said that it was better than moms just killing their child. What if someone already had been storked many times. How would that family support all the children. There was a part of the story when Connor said that he had been storked, "...the baby had been passed around the whole neighborhood" The baby eventually died because the people in the neighborhood just kept putting the baby on someone else's doorstop. The baby was basically tortured to death.
      So far everyone in our group thinks that Risa is the smartest character. Risa has helped Connor out of a lot of tough situations throughout the story. She got them clothes, food, and thought of some good ideas to help them to survive. She's the reason that they got out of that school. If it wasn't for Risa, Connor would have been unwound a long time ago.
      Connor is a very interesting character in the story. He sometimes goes on auto pilot and does lots of stupid things that could have gotten him unwound. He grabbed Lev out of the car, picked up a storked baby, and also picked fights with other unwinds. Even though Conner has done some stupid things, he still is very useful and keeps Risa company.