UNWIND Graveyard

G R A V E Y A R D

Which job in the graveyard does Risa get assigned to? How does this come about? P201
She gets assigned the job of being a medic. Just as she steps out of the line with the boring - to say the least- job of dishwasher, the boy that Connor punched in the face to get out of being in the same crate as Roland walks up behind her. Connor had broken his nose, and she instructed him on how to stop the bleeding. Risa was then promoted to medic.

Why doesn't Connor volunteer for "work"? P205

Because to him, it seems like the admiral is using them all for his own personal gain. Most of the unwinds however don't really care, because, as Hayden said "I'd rather be used whole than in pieces". Even if they aren't getting paid for the work that they're doing, it's still better than the alternative.

"About six girls- all seventeen years old, it looks like," says Hayden. "I guess no one wants to be a house-girl for more than a year."

"This place isn't a refuge, it's a slave market. Why doesn't anyone see that?"

"Who says they don't see it? It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.

How does Roland unsettle Connor? P206-207

He firstly informs him that Cleaver is teaching him how to fly. He then tells Connor about his theory on the admiral. Roland told Connor that he doesn't think it's a camp for saving unwinds, but instead a camp for the admiral to choose new body parts for himself from. Connor doesn't exactly believe him, but he doesn't entirely shoot his theory down.

P208-209 detail Lev's arrival, and Connor's reaction. Make sure you fill in your character profiles for both characters.
Lev's arrival was the same as Connor, Risa, Hayden, Roland and everyone else's arrival. A big group of them arrived in an old unregistered jet, in this case and old Fed-Ex jet, packed into crates in groups of four. Connor was both relieved and infuriated. He remembered how Lev had betrayed him and Risa, but he also remembered how devastated he was when he thought he had been unwound.

P214-215 Connor learns the truth about the Admiral here. How does the Admiral gain Connor's trust?
By giving him a true and logical explanation to all the numerous odd things he'd heard about him. The admiral explains to Connor that the so called teeth he got from an unwind were dentures, and the picture of the kid on his desk was his son, who's teeth he got his dentures modelled to look as similar as possible to.

What, according to the Admiral, is it that Connor is becoming famous for in the Graveyard?p212
Mostly for his skill in fixing broken things, but also his reputation for being impulsive and getting into fights.

What happens to the Goldens?p217
Someone killed the Goldens by locking them in a crate with no air holes. Connor suspects it was Roland, but as we later find out it's actually Lev, Mai, Cleaver and Blaine, who have much bigger plans in store than killing five kids.

How does Roland begin to assert his power in the Graveyard? (you'll need to look throughout the section)
He begins to share his theories about the admiral with all the other kids in the graveyard. He tells them about how he believes the admirals teeth and other parts of the admiral aren't really his, and scares some of them into believing that they're next. This of course isn't true, and at this stage I'm not sure whether Roland believes it himself or not, not that it really matters since he seems to be very persuasive, and the others very gullible.

P222-226 give us an insight into how the Unwinding Bill was passed into law. Summarise what happened, then explain whether or not you think it is plausible.  

It started with the Heartland war, a war fought between two sides; Pro life and pro choice. However, as the admiral explains, there were actually three sides in the war. Pro life, pro choice, and the remains of the American military, who were tasked to stop the other two sides from destroying each other. The bill of life, started as a joke, no one took it seriously, but then that same year a scientist won the Nobel Prize for perfecting a process called neurografting, meaning they could officially use every single part of a human's body -every single cell- in a transplant. As the war got worse, they brought both sides to a table and came up with a solution. The third side (the American military) proposed the idea of unwinding in the hopes of shocking both sides into seeing reason, but unfortunately neither side saw a problem with it, and therefore The Bill of Life was passed and the war came to an end.

The Admiral was there when the Bill of Life was signed - do you think this detracts from the believability of the commonplace nature of Unwinding?

If the admiral was there when the bill was signed, it means it happened a lot more recently than I thought, but for younger generations I suppose it probably still seems fairly ordinary, because they don't know any different.

In your opinion, do you think the book should have a few more generations between those who signed the Bill, and the present state in the novel?
I think it would be interesting to get the perspective of someone who was around Connor, Risa and Lev's age when the bill was passed. Because they would've lived their entire lives having nothing to worry about, and then all of a sudden get thrown into the possibility of being sent to their deaths by their own parents. However, I feel like most parents of children of that age when the bill was passed wouldn't agree with it -if I were them that would seem barbaric- and opinions probably changed over the generations.

What job does Lev volunteer to do? P236

He volunteers to work on an oil pipeline along with Mai and Blaine until they turn 18. What Connor and Risa don't know is that it's part of their plan, and that job was called specifically called because Mai, Blaine, Cleaver and Lev all knew no one in their right mind would choose it.

Which part of Harlan Dunfree does Emby have? P240

He has one of his lungs, the one which gives Emby asthma.

Chapter 39 is from Roland's point of view. Why do you think Shusterman changes the narrative here? What do we learn in this short chapter?

We find out that he really didn't kill the Goldens- however he did pull a lot of questionable pranks on people. Roland is a horrible person but apparently he isn't horrible enough to be a killer.

By the end of this section, things at the Graveyard have deteriorated, with the unwinds turning on the Admiral, and tearing the place apart. Which character is beaten to death on p250?

Cleaver, who Connor soon finds out is the real murderer. He doesn't find out who his accomplices are though.

What does the Admiral refuse on p255? What is the doctor's reaction to this?

He refuses to get a heart transplant, because he refuses to support the act of unwinding in any way, even if it decreases his chances of surviving drastically.

Why does Roland have the Juvey-Cops called?

Because he thinks he can bribe them into capturing Connor and Risa but let him go, if he tells them where they can find hundreds of rogue unwinds.

P259 Why doesn't his plan happen?

Because the Juvey-Cops already knew about the graveyard, and the hundreds of unwinds, and the fact that it was being run by the admiral. They just didn't care. If the unwinds were out of their way and off the streets, it isn't their problem.