Unsouled Reading Response

Currently I am reading the book Unsouled by Neil Shusterman. Unsouled is the third and final book in the Unwind trilogy that takes place in a world where parents can choose to have their children ages thirteen to eighteen unwound. Unwinding in this world is the process of the organs removed held until a transplant is needed this includes the brain so technically the child is still alive just in a divided state. The book focuses on multiple escaped teens who face abandonment not only from their parents but also from each other.

A main character named Starkey feels the loneliness two times as much as the other children. He was “storked” as a baby which means his birth parents abandoned him on the door steps of his adoptive parents legally making him their child. Then his adoptive parents decided to unwind him. Also he was abandoned by Connor for being overly violent and aggressive. Connor was an older escaped unwind that kids including Starkey looked up too. 

Starkey is the most troubled of all the children. He hangs four people working at a Unwind Harvest Camp in the cold blood as a part of the Unwind rebellion. He also is creating an army of storks that were going to be unwound in preparation for a battle against the government. Also Starkey enjoys changing his appearance to not be recognized which makes sense because he is a run away but because he feels like he is disowning his past self when he changes his appearance.

Overall the main issue focused on in the Unwind trilogy is abandonment. The book also focuses on its affects on the children. Starkey is a specially good example but all the children deal with it in some way even those who are not unwinds themself but are helping with the effort.