This discussion was by far the best one we've had. During this discussion there were a lot of level three questions and connections to modern day that came up. We talked about synthetic body parts, suicide bombers, and what our future might be like.
In Unwind, there are people from the ages of 13-17 that can be taken apart and used to save someones life. In our world, we have donors and synthetic body parts. A question that came up was, "Why don't they have advanced synthetic body parts in Unwind?" People in my group said that hospitals didn't need any parts because they already had a bunch of new healthy parts from real humans. This is very scary, because maybe if the world did have too many people, the government might start to make unwinding real. It's very possible. In science we learned about evolution and how Thomas Malthus stated that "if the human population continued to grow unchecked, sooner or later there would be insufficient living space and food for everyone." What if the future was crowded with little resources left? Would people be unwound?
One of the character's in the story, Lev, became a clapper. Clappers are suicide bombers with explosives in their blood. Our group talked about if people could really do that and not be poisoned. It doesn't seem real to me. Terrorists probably have read this book and tried it already. They're most likely dead, maybe Neil Shusternam wrote this book because he knew this would happen.
The future, everyone talks about it. After reading unwind I got some ideas of what our future might be like. In unwind people could get pigment injections to change the colors of their eyes. I remember Shannon talking about getting her eyes purple with stripes, Ebone talking about getting green eyes, and Melissa just not knowing what to say. There might even be pigment injections available right now. Our group talked about how everything we read in unwind is possible. It might just happen, unwinding, pigment injections, and clappers. Only time will tell.
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