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Unwind blurb: The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called "unwinding". Unwinding is now common, and accepted , practice in society

In the not-too-distant future, teens Connor, Risa, and Lev are on the run for their lives. Following the Second Civil War, between pro-choice and pro-life forces, the United States now allows parents to unwind their unwanted and difficult kids between the ages of thirteen and eighteen: Their bodies are surgically taken apart and all the organs and tissue are used in other people. According to the law, the kids aren't considered dead, they're "living in a divided state." But Connor, Risa, and Lev, and thousands of other teens slated for "unwinding", don't see it that way. They choose instead to "kick AWOL," or run away. Unwind follows these three across the country as they travel together, split up, and meet again when their destinies cross in a Harvest Camp where they are slated to be unwound.

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 is when people believe that everyone has the right to live and pro-choice is believing that abortion is okay.
2. What do you know about organ donation?  That if someone is sick or dying and their organs are healthy, they can choose to donate them to other people.
3. 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? The other place could be concentration camps in ww2
4. What religious connotation does the word 'harvest' evoke? Harvesting organs or limbs. I dont know
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?
6. What is the definition of legal? Something you can do without getting in trouble
7. What about ethical? It being morally right.
8. Do you believe that because something is legal, it is also ethical, or morally right? no there are plenty of legal things I do not necessarily think are ethical.
9. Can things that are ethically sound ever be illegal? Provide examples. If it matches up to your morals then I guess so. I don't really know any examples
10. Can you think of examples in history to support your ideas? Provide examples.