Monday, May 31, 2010

Unwind Part 5/5

In this section of the book I read pages 263-335. In the beginning of this section Connor, Risa, Roland and Lev are all at the harvest camp but don't know about the others being there with them. when Connor gets to the camp he is not treated like a normal unwind. He is taken on a walk around the harvest camp skipping the orientation. This walk is like showing all the other unwinds that the all powerful AWOL has been captured and that all hope has been lost. This just make the other unwinds feel more rebellious and in the presence of a hero. When Risa is brought to "Happy jacks Camp" she is treated like a normal unwind and is brought through the orientation. When she is interviewed they find out she is a good piano player so she is put in the Happy Jack Band that plays on the roof of the chop shop while the unwinds that are to be unwound that day are brought down the path. Risa does not feel it is the right thing to do and can't stand to look at them as they walk by. The only reason she has not dropped out of the band is because being in the band makes it so they wont unwind you for as long as they can. Lev went back to being a tithe when he got to the camp. Tithes were treated special, they had there own places to sleep and got good food. They had a schedule they followed every day and they had all the help and people they needed to be comfortable. Lev is against the whole idea of kids being unwound, so he becomes friends with two other kids that believe it is wrong also. One of the kids has the supplies to make them into clappers. clappers are people that put explosives into there bloodstream so that when they want at any moment they can clap there hands very hard and ignite the explosives and be a human stick of TNT. Lev and the two others become clappers and plan to blow up the chop shop. One day lev sees Connor and runs over to talk to him, then a counselor runs over to break them apart and get Lev back to his room. When the counselor talks to him about it he tells Lev that Connor will unwound tomorrow at one so he wont be able to disrupt Lev any more. When Lev finds this out he go in a panic. He decides that he needs to explode the chop shop before one in order to save Connor. The next day they sneak into the chop shop and do not explode it in time. Connor had just walked through the doors when the first explosion happened. Then the second clapper exploded taking down the rest of the shop. Lev doesn't have the guts to blow him self up but he sees Connor walking out of the rubble so he runs over to him and helps put pressure on his mangled arm and his eye that was missing. When the roof caved in the band was on top playing for Connors arrival. the band fell through the roof and Risa was trapped under a pillar that had fallen on her torso. Later on Connor wakes up and he is in the hospital with a new arm and a new eyeball. Risa has been awake the whole time and she is diagnosed with being paralyzed from the waist down. She could get it all replace with the parts of an unwind but because of her beliefs she will not take the transplant. Lev confessed to being a clapper and he is all over the news as the clapper that did not clap and instead save many lives. he was put in a padded room and strapped to a chair so he couldn't clap. They slowly gave him transfusions to take out the explosive stuff in his body. Because of this incident it created a lot of awareness in the public and there was a lot of rebellion and protests against unwinding. In the end Connor and Risa became boyfriend and girlfriend and Lev live on as the "clapper that didn't clap."

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