1. How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort claim as they're being led to their "death"? If you've seen it and it happens around you. Also being unwound is normalised in society in the novel because they brainwash the kids aged 13-18 that being unwound isn't dying it's just living in a divided state.
2. Why do you think shutersman has chosen three characters to tell their story? So it can show different perspectives from all of the kids and cops etc. For example Connor didn't want to be unwound because he knows hes basically dying but Lev did because in his culture they call and look at it differently. They call it a tithe and believe that nothings wrong with it. Lev also was thinking on the way of getting unwound (or his tithing) that he was the chosen one and his time has come, like he was hyping himself up before a sports match or a running race.
3. Lev is a tithe. This means that he is 10% offering to their church, what are your thoughts on this? I just think it's just another way of making unwindings okay or normalised.
4. Rita is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and how have the state decided she is no longer useful, do you think that the state should be able to tell if ones life is useful or not at birth? The state can't full on predict but they can have an educated guess or assumtion because the state of their upbringing and living conditions as they grow up.
5. Connors parents have chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parents view their children? Why do you think this? They view their children from day one and figure out how they behave, well that was the case with Connor. They judge their kids from the day they we're born to fugure if they should unwind their kid or not. They could keep the kid because he/she is smart and well behaved or could unwind the kid because he gets into fights and has bad grades or simply just badly behaved.
6. Pastor dan presents as being conflicted. What journeys might he have to encourage Lev during his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run? He encouraged him because he knew being a tithe was a hard thing to do or commit to, even though he had no choice. He told him to run because he had te opportunity and it would of been the better option to get out of being s tithe and run away.
sup zion his writing is really good i like where you put it in paragraph.
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