How Is Unwind Relevant Today

Unwind is a dystopian novel written by Neal Shusterman, that refers to a future society and talks about the heartland war. The war explains the constitutional amendment “the bill of life” in which the Parents are choosing whether or not to unwind their children from the age of 13-18. This novel is still relevant today because abortion shows pro-choice and pro-life with unwinding, adoption with storking, and reproductive rights protests in today's society.

Neal Shusterman shows how abortion is relevant today by displaying the conflict about pro-choice and pro-life society has in the novel as well as in today's world. One example that conveys this is “the bill of life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception

Many families and single parents have to put their children up for adoption because they don't have the money to take care of a needed child. But in relation, unwind uses adoption as storking whereas the mother leaves the baby on another person's porch and walks away without getting caught. On Page 148, Conner is thinking to himself on why he saved both Lev and the baby, the author says “ Conner had risked his life to save Lev, just as he had done for the baby on the doorstep. Well, the baby had been saved , but Lev had not, and although he knows he can't be held responsible for Lev's unwinding he feels as if it's his fault” ( Shusterman, pg148). This follows a connection because putting a baby up for adoption is extremely hard no matter the cause. For instance, this quote clearly shows that young women are frightened to have but also take care of a baby because of the responsibilities that are going to be put on them. In the novel, the author uses this type of language to display and connect to what's going on in the actual world. He does this because he wants to show awareness as well as the main conflict that is being revealed to society. “ In the book Unwind by Neal Shusterman, a law passed to where mothers who can no longer can financially support their babies or no longer want their infant, are permitted to leave the unwanted child on someone else's porch, also referred as ‘storking’’( Bartley, Paragraph 1). Since Abortion is illegal, women are scared of having a baby at a young age. Even though it isn't shown in the book, it is shown in the real world. These two words both have a connection because in the novel, they use “storking” as for adoption but they do use it in a different way. Many people, including the government, don't realize the type of problems young women or even single mothers have to face. This is one of the many reasons why