Reading Resopnse

Astor Meredith-Goujon

September 14, 2014

UnSouled

            “UnSouled” by Neal Shusterman is the third book in the Unwind trilogy. The first two books were “UnWind” and “UnWholly”. The trilogy is about three kids: Conner, Levi (who goes by Lev) and Risa. In the second book a fourth kid is introduced: Camus Comprix (who goes by Cam). They live in a world where kids that are not wanted are “unwound” which is when all of the their body parts are dismantled but kept alive and are transplanted into other people. It’s called living in a divided state. The book takes place a little farther into the future. There are two types of kids who get unwound; AWOL unwinds and tithes. Tithes are kids who’s parents decided they would be unwound from birth and AWOL unwinds who’s parents sign an unwind order when they’re usually a teenager and it was on a whim. Usually this happens when the kid is acting up and causing trouble. Cam is made up of all unwinds and is the cause of much conflict. Conner and Lev are trying to find the wife of the man who created the technology for unwinding so that they can get information on how to end unwinding. Risa is hiding with one of the people that Lev met on his journey to meet Conner in the first book. This book was a real cliffhanger and I’m not sure what happened. At the end of the book the kids found who they were looking for and she gave them an organ printer and that was the end. The events after could have gone two ways: one that the organ printer was rejected and: two it was accepted and unwinding stopped.

            One of the reasons the first scenario could have happened is because it had already been rejected. The woman they found was the widow of the guy who created the technology to make unwinding possible who is. Originally the technology wasn’t for unwinding. So when that’s what it was used for the guy immediately wanted to change that. So he made an organ printer to replace unwinding. But there was already a system set up so that unwinding could happen. The government didn’t want to change so they rejected the organ printer. This could happen again. Even more so because it’s a kid who is proposing that it is used and that kid is one of the most infamous people in the country.

            But on the other hand it might work. This kid has a lot of influence on unwinds and probably people who are afraid of getting unwound and that is a lot of people. So there might be another teen uprising like there was in the events leading up to the first book of the series. There are a lot more kids then there are grown ups that would fight the kids. But they were taken out last time so I don’t know if it would work if it was tried again. Another reason it might work is because there are a lot of grown ups who are against unwinding and they might help the kids who are unwinds.

            In the end I think that the organ machine would be rejected and an uprising would fail because the government is just too powerful and they already shut down one uprising and I’m sure they could do it again.