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Human Right: Unwind In today’s world, choices are considered a God-given right and life considered precious. Human rights are the rights inhere to all human beings. But in some places in the world, people are not so fortunate earning these basic rights. Where they are being deprived, loosing their freedom and equality rights. The novel Unwind by Neal Shurterman describes a future second civil war in the United States, better known as “The Heartland War.” Shusterman imagines a world in which debates over abortion ultimately lead to armed conflict, in which pro-choice and pro-life armies clash. Eventually the country came into agreement or compromised called the Bill of Life where they abolish abortion. Coming from this abolished law came a …show more content…

Some violations of human rights are occurring right now as you read. A Sudanese Christian wife and mother, who was eight months pregnant was arrested and sentence to public flogging followed by execution. An Islamic court in Khartoum found her guilty of apostasy, which is leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. Acting in accordance with Islamic law, it’s a crime punishable by death. There are countless similar reported cases where human rights are violated. Pope Francis said, "The persecution of Christians today is even greater than in the first centuries of the Church, and there are more Christian martyrs today than in that era." In Egypt, while Christians were ushering in the 2011 New Years, Islamic terrorists bombed the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, killing 23 worshippers and injuring about 100 people. Just like in the novel Unwind, the teens have no human rights when it comes to becoming unwound because they have no say on what to do with their body or even to oppose. If the teens were to try to start some kind of protest they are most likely to killed or arrested and become immediately unwound. In addition, human rights are evident in real life as well as in the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman. (Raymond

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As dystopian novels, Anthem by Ayn Rand and Unwind by Neil Shusterman are bound to have similarities within their driving forces. Despite taking place in disparate societies, what links these two novels together is the concept of insubordination and resilliance. Within Anthem, the protagonist, Equality 7-2521, blindly walks through a post-modern, underlying oppressive society where individualism is bracketed off with evil or selfish ideas and commodities that led the previous world to crumble; thus leading to a civilization lacking self-awareness. A place where all citizens of the society refer to themselves as "we", are given names which lack much personality, and are indistinguishable to one another. "We are one in all and all in one.

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For example in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel he tells us first hand how his human rights were violated. For example in during the holocaust “jews were not allowed to leave their residences for three days under the penalty of death.” (pg10) This is in the direct violation of article 13 of the UDHR. Article 13 states that any person that wants to leave any were what so ever including their residence whenever they feel necessary.

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The novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman takes place in a futuristic, dystopian United States. In this society there was previously a war fought over reproductive rights, the solution the came up with was “unwinding”. Unwinding is where they take your body apart, and sell it off as organ transplants, but it’s the parents who chose to unwind their kids. The three main characters are Connor, Risa, and Lev. Each are about to be unwound when their journey’s meet in an unexpected way.

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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

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The people on the pro-life side wanted to get rid of abortion while pro-choice wanted there to be a choice, so the result was a worst-case scenario which would keep it fair. The outcome of having a fair compromise was unwinding children from the ages thirteen to eighteen so they wouldn’t be killed before birth and given a chance to prove their worthiness unless they would be unwinded. As stated in “The Bill of Life” unwinding means “the process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive” which would benefit the sides, and making it the sole reason the society became a dystopia from its attempt to criticize an important controversial topic which separated many. In order to transition the society in Unwind from the present dystopia to a functional and fair society, children need to be cared for and not left. To get this to happen people who aren’t ready to have children must be careful and think more about what they are doing before they regret it and stork their

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In the book Unwind By Neal Shusterman It takes place in a future but not the future we think of with hover crafts and aliens. The most interesting thing is how human life is dealt with. Storking is a common practice in this society. This is when somebody puts a baby on a porch, knocks and it is someone else 's problem... unless you are caught and then you must take it back. Unwinding people is also a common practice.

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The book tries to give a serious perspective, but it is hard to believe that the nation would be full-out divided over something like abortion. It's not easy to divide a nation to the point of a stand-still. After the horrors and tragedies of the American Civil War, it would require a matter of high importance to deem war necessary within the nation once again. I just can't picture abortion justifying a war. Anyway, it happened, and resulted in the compromise of unwinding.

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Unwind is a novel about the fates of three teenagers during a dystopian future where people practice unwinding. Unwinding was created after the Heartland War, which was like a second American Civil War, except is fought over abortion. A group came together to solve the issue, and unwinding was born. Unwinding is retroactive abortion. When a child reaches age 13, their parents can send an order for them to be unwound, which is irrevocable.

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