Exploring the Blurb

 Exploring the Blurb

In the not-too-distant future, teens Connor, Risa, and Lev are on the run for their lives. Following the Second Civil War, between pro-choice and pro-life forces, the United States now allows parents to unwind their unwanted and difficult kids between the ages of thirteen and eighteen: Their bodies are surgically taken apart and all the organs and tissue are used in other people. According to the law, the kids aren't considered dead, they're "living in a divided state." But Connor, Risa, and Lev, and thousands of other teens slated for "unwinding", don't see it that way. They choose instead to "kick AWOL," or run away. Unwind follows these three across the country as they travel together, split up, and meet again when their destinies cross in a Harvest Camp where they are slated to be unwound.

1.What do you already know about pro-life and pro-choice groups? What do these terms mean? Is it an issue you have thought about? Pro-life is a group of people who are against abortion and euthanasia, and pro-choice is a group of people who supports aborting their own children.

2.What do you know about organ donation?  Organ donation is a when people donate their own organ for a people who is needing one.

3.Teenagers to be unwound are sent to Harvest Camps. Can you make a connection between the language used to describe this place, and other places people have been sent historically?The name of the camp relates to harvesting children's organs who is unwound

4.What religious connotation does the word 'harvest' evoke? Reaping what you sow

5.The term "living in a divided state" here is really a euphemism for what? It means their soul wandering somewhere else but they're body is alive.
Can you think of other, common euphemisms? Why do people use euphemisms? Instead of saying "Your fired" people use "I'm letting you go". People use euphemism people use it because they don't want the person to get hurt bu their words.

6.What is the definition of legal?  

The definition of Legal is an order that has been approved by law.

7.What about ethical?

Things that is morally right

8.Do you believe that because something is legal, it is also ethical, or morally right?

No,Because some people with bad intention in higher position can decide whether legal or ethically or morally right

9.Can things that are ethically sound ever be illegal? Provide examples.

Yes, but it depends in the situation, an example of that is when child is so hungry that he stole food in a shop.

10.Can you think of examples in history to support your ideas? Provide examples.