During my group discussion about the book Unwind, a science fiction novel by Neal Shusterman, we talked about the protagonist character Connor being a hero in some ways and a criminal in others. Also we discussed his significance as the Akron AWOL and how many kids looked up to him as a hero. Many other questions were posed from in our discussion.
Connor, the hero of the book retitled as the Akron AWOL was very significant because of his change throughout the story. He was a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, Shusterman hints Connor’s delinquent ways, by the end, Connor is a leader and takes the place of the Admiral at the graveyard. This is different from before because he was not as intelligent and did not understand his reason for living since he was bound to be unwound anyways. By the end of the book, he knows what his fate is, to be a leader. It was obvious that Connor already had the role of a leader at the graveyard under the Admiral’s control, but once he escaped the harvest camp, it was clear that he certainly was a leader.
Could Connor be considered a holy figure if he had done so many crimes? This question came up in our discussion. At the end of the story, Roland has Connor in his grasp and is so close to killing him, in spite of their rivalry Roland lets go. He could have easily killed Connor but chose not to. Yet in the book Roland is the antagonist, or bad character. Connor on the other hand has caused the death of a bus driver on accident, took down a juvey cop, took a hostage and stopped and entire freeway. There was controversy over this topic but we came to the decision that Connor’s actions were accidents and he was still a hero.
The book Unwind was such a great novel. I recommend it to everybody because it was really good! I’m glad that I chose this book for my final and too bad there isn’t a sequel to it.
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