Ignorance In Flannery O Connor's The Unwind

Seclude within every guardian’s sinister ideas are one infinitesimal wish that their child would disappear forever. Unwind, a dark, thought-provoking novel emphasize the ignorance of humanity; creating a community with the type of moral justice that vivisects a teenager who wastes thirteen years on being a child. “Set in a future in which abortions are outlawed but parents have the option of signing over their 13- to 17-year-olds to be used as organ donors”(Peters ). Three main characters, Connor, Risa, and Lev have to somehow survive to adulthood while trying to save whoever they come across as well. Symbolism and figurative language are ubiquitous, from the clappers to all the documents meticulously placed at the beginning of each chapter.

Pro-life V.S. Pro-choice; whether society should have the choice to kill the unborn children of the world or to give fetuses one chance to grow and develop This argument doesn’t just apply to humans but animals as well, it is controversial to eat the meat of a baby cow but not a full grown one. To humans it is more ethical to give them a chance in life; then kill them as soon as they grown out of childhood; that is the same idea as Unwind. Giving them a chance to live and throwing it all in their face once the only excuse they get is that they didn’t try hard enough like everyone else. Unwind, a best seller, made of thought-provoking ideas of what makes a society, the dark psychology behind it along with the idea that is the end, is a person valued enough to

There are many lessons that can be taught from the confines of the pages of Shusterman’s novel. Debates can be had about what a war for pro-life would result of and how society would function without the legal opportunity for an abortion. There are many contributions when added up it creates a society made of twisted morals and flocking sheeple. By the end, the characters themselves don’t even know whether they are doing the right thing or not, they don’t know who they are, “No one knows whether you're a monster or a hero.”(365 Shusterman). By the end of any war, the moral line is skewed, scattered and burned to hell as the leaders and soldiers ignore the heartbreak and twisted guts for the betterment of the group, not the person. All this valuable psychology will help start a powerful conversation between students such as the value of a human life, how ethical it is to kill a baby or a teenager, should we give kids the chance and see how they turn out, and the thought process of tithes. Tithes are a special kind of unwind, they volunteer to be “harvested” for God would have wanted them to sacrifice them self for the good of