Is running away a good idea? In thé dystopian novel Unwind by Nate Shusterman it tells thé story of Connor, Risa, and Lev and their journey to escaping thé feared procedure of unwinding. In dystopian story Thé dystopian novel Thé Giver by Lois Lowry is thé story of Jonas who is selected to be thé receiver but then he finds out shocking and bad things about his community and how he escapes from it. Both of these stories use character archetypes and setting that leads to symbols to establish the theme of you should always have hope and never lose hope. First, in thé book Unwind, Neal Shusterman uses thé mentor archetype to show how you should never give up hope. In thé story, Lev is a tithe which is someone who’s parents, since thé moment …show more content…
Jonas, thé protagonist for thé Giver, is planning to escape from his community. But, there’s one problem. Thé Giver tells Jonas that he can’t go with him when he says “No. I have to stay here,” Thé Giver said firmly “I want to Jonas. If I go with you, and together we take away all their protection from thé memories, Jonas thé community will be left with no one to help them. They’ll be thrown into chaos. They’ll destroy themselves. I can’t go.”(156) Thé Giver is telling him that they’ll (thé community) will need him more than Jonas does. Thé Giver represents a mentor because he has guided thé character all throughout thé story and now he’s telling him that he must go on his journey alone, which usually a mentor doesn’t go on thé journey. This evidence represents thé craft move because thé Giver might possibly be choosing to not go with Jonas not only because the community will need thé Giver but also because he might want to boost Jonas’s self esteem to make him say to himself “I got this” then if he were to get that self esteem he could then develop hope for his journey and make himself believe that he can do it. Lowry uses this to show theme because she wants thé reader to realize that no matter if your alone or don’t know what to do, you should never give up