The government
is coming to take you away! Government control is a common
dystopian theme, as it is feared greatly by many people on this
planet. Some people, such as the residents of North Korea, already
are in complete government control and brainwashing. A recurring
idea in government control is the
governmentwiping out a certain percentage of people to keep the
population down, which is usually the people with less intelligence
than average. In
Neal
Shustermans Unwind the parents get to choose if they want to
get rid of their child between the ages of 13 and 18, but theres a
catch. The unwind doesnt necessarily die, rather his/her body
parts are put up for sale, and a bit of the unwinds consciousness
gets put into each part. In Henry Slesars Examination Day
children at the age of twelve
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The first time
Pastor Dan told Lev to run, Lev tried to come up with every way
possible to prove to himself that he wasnt told to run from the
Unwinding. After all, its hard to undo a life full of brainwashing
in one event. The second time he gets to talk to Pastor Dan though,
he gets angry when he finds out his suspicions are correct. For the
rest of the book from that moment on, we see a completely different
version of Lev in his actions and thinking. For example, before Lev
had his talk with Pastor Dan at the school, he thought negatively
on people who were bad. It did bother him, though, when kids
called him things like "dirty Unwind." As if he was like those
other kids, whose parents signed the unwind order to get rid of
them. (Shusterman 25) Later in the book he lives the life of a
dirty unwind and later almost goes through the terrible sin of
being a clapper. Dickie may be a happy and jolly kid who just wants
to do good in life, but if he survived the test, I could see him
undergoing a transformation in character like Lev
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