English Unwind Questions Part 1 (Triplicate)

Name three Synonyms in dystopia
1. Anti-utopia
2. Apocalypse
3. Dystopy

What is a antonym for dystopia?
1. Utopia

Which dystopian novels have I read?
The only book I can think of that I have read is the Hunger Games.

How many others can I name?
Like I said before I can not think of any other dystopian books.

Examining The Cover

How Do You Think The Story Will Be Written? I think it will be written from a third person perspective.

Why do I think the story is as entitled as it is. I get the idea that there is DNA on the front because when they get unwound they get DNA taken out.

Where do you think the story will take place? I thought ti would take place in a big city im not sure why it is just in my head it sounds like the unwinding factory would be big.

What time period do I think this was based around? I think think that it is based around the two thousands because it does not sound like there is much futuristic stuff there.

Exploring The Blurb

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: When someone thinks that women should not have the choice to keep or abort the baby. Pro-Choice: Is when abortion is a moral choice.
2. What do you know about organ donation? Organ donation is when someone who has Volunteered to give someone else on of there organs.
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? One thing that I can link is that when they go to the Harvest Camp none of the kids will leave the place alive because they are used there and they get there organs taken. 
4. What religious connotation does the word 'harvest' evoke? To em the word harvest reminds me of going and collecting something that has grown.
5. The term "living in a divided state" here is really a euphemism for what? Can you think of other, common euphemisms? Why do people use euphemisms? Living in a divided state is an euphemisms for being killed and your organs used for someone else.
6. What is the definition of legal? When something has been approved by the law. 
7. What about ethical? Something that is morally right.
8. Do you believe that because something is legal, it is also ethical, or morally right? No I don't a lot of laws might not be right.
9. Can things that are ethically sound ever be illegal? Provide examples. They could because someone could finally see the other side of it. 
10. Can you think of examples in history to support your ideas? Provide examples. I could not think of anything for this.

Part One-Triplicate

1.  How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort of claim as they’re being led to their "death"? From when they are born they are told that if you are getting unwound it is for a good cause and that they will be helping people.  
2. Why, do you think, has Shusterman chosen to have three characters tell their story? I think that it is good that they have told each persons story because we find out where they come from and what there back story is. 
3. Lev is a tithe. This means that he is the 10% that his family will give back to the church as an offering. What are your thoughts on this? I think that it is not right because his family have been telling him that he is doing something for god and they threw him a big party but I don't think he knows that he wont come back. 
4. Rita is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and now the state have decided she is no longer useful. Do you think that the state should ever be able to determine if one life is more useful than another? No it is not fair because everyone should have a chance to do well in life. 
5. Connor's parents have chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parents view their children? Why do you think this? I think that they view the children as if they cant change once they make a mistake and once they have ordered the unwind they just try to forget about him. 
6. Pastor Dan presents as being conflicted. What reasons might he have to encourage Lev in his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run? Because pastor Dan understands what is really going to happen to him.
7. What is the story based on a nursery rhyme that circulates among the youth? Humphrey