Unwind Neal Shusterman - Questions Part 2 Storked

 Questions Part 2

Storked

"You can't change laws without first changing human nature." - Nurse Greta 

"You can't change human nature without first changing the law." -Nurse Young 

1. What is the story based on a nursery rhyme that circulates among the youth? 

Humptey Dumptey. That a kid named Humphery was taken to be unwound after his parents couldn’t agree on custody rights and thought it was fair to get him unwound instead. After the unwinding and divorse, the parents got back together and then missed their kid so they found all his pieces and put him back together again.

2. Risa overhears two nurses debating law and human nature. Which argument do you think is stronger? Why do you think this? Write a paragraph explaining your thoughts on law and human nature. 

3. This section opens with a mother abandoning her newborn infant on the doorstep of a house in a good neighbourhood. As she leaves, she thinks "How wonderful it is that she can get a second chance. How wonderful it is that she can dismiss her responsibility so easily."  In your opinion, by allowing new mothers to give up their children so readily, does it take away from the value of a child?

Giving children up so readily takes away the value of a child as they cannot possibly be sure that the doorstep that the child is at is completely safe for it.

4. What is the role of a mother? Do you think the title of mother is something that should be earned, or a natural right of the woman who gave birth?

I think that being called a mother needs to be earned and is not a natural right they get.

5. What skills or attributes do Connor and Risa have that work well together?

I think their skills to look after themselves and how they are both quite street wise. 

6. Connor and Lev have very different experiences with storking. How has this helped shape each of their attitudes toward the society they live in?

Lev feels like being stroked is a gift. Connor feels empathy for children being stoked because his trauma with a baby being stroked then dying in their hands. 

7. Connor is concerned the baby won't be loved, and ultimately will die, so he takes it. What does this show us about him as a person?  

He is very empathetic with stoked babies because of his past with stoked babies.

8. What makes Lev realise he doesn't want to be unwound? P79 

Pastor Dan convinces him that he shouldn’t have been tithed at all and that he should do something with his life.

9. Each of the other characters on the run has a tragic background story. Why were Hayden, Roland and Mai set to be unwound? Which, do you think, is the most tragic? Explain your response. 

Hayden was unwould because his parents got a divorce and coulnd agree on the custody rights but only could agree that if only one of them could have them it wouldn be fair so they got him unwound. 

10. What tattoo does Roland have?

Roland has a tattoo of a shark on his arm