1. Abandonment
Definition: An act or fact of abandoning or being abandoned.
People can feel abandoned in all sorts of situations. Basically, if you are abandoned, it means that someone has stopped to support you or to look after you.
Connor and Risa both experienced abandonment. They both knew how abandonment feels like.
Connor felt abandonment when Ariana decided not to come with him to run away.
"So you're not coming?"
"I want to, I really, really want to... but I can't."
"So everything we talked about was just a lie."
Risa felt abandonment when she was abandoned by the headmaster by unwinding her to lessen the population.
"We have to make room for every new ward."
"You do understand, don't you?"
"I'm being unwound?"
Silence. It's more of an answer than if they had said "yes."
2. Morality
Definition: Concerning the difference between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour.
In Unwind many people questions who gets to take a person's life? Is it fine to take a person's life without their consent? A constant question that the readers often think about when reading Unwind. Is it fine to take their life by being forceful about it? what about brainwashing them to think that it is good to let someone else take your life?.
When Risa's headmaster decided to unwind Risa. Risa thought is it okay for her headmaster to take away her life without her saying so. Risa thought about the choice of her headmaster to unwind her.
"You're a good musician, but..."
"As I said, you've reached your potential."
"As far as you can go."
"Perhaps if you had chosen a less competitive course of study."
Connor encountered the situation that his parents were gonna unwind him.
He turns to his father looking at him. Not just looking, but staring. He's going to tell me now, Connor thinks. He's going to tell me they're unwinding me, then break down in tears, going on and on about how sorry sorry sorry he is about it all. If he does, Connor just might accept the apology.
Lev is forced to believe that it was good to be unwind that it's an offering to the god.
The party is all for him. It's all about him. And he's determined to have the best time of his life.
"You don't have to bring anything," Lev had told them
"There are no presents at a tithing party. Just come and have a good time. I know I will."
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