Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Unwind 4:

This setion of the book is called gravyard, and it is part five of the story. The new unwinds face a tribunal of sorts with the top three that were chosen by the Admiral to find a job for them. Connor gets mechanic, Risa is assigned medic and Roland is learning how to fly a helicopter from "Cleaver" another high-up that is not an unwind like the other high-ups. During the course of a month the unwinds get used living in the Graveyard, where they had jobs. Also people grow suspicious of the Admiral because of his abnormally white teeth which they think are from a Unwind. Rumors fly that the Admiral is just here to pick and choose Unwinds. A few days later Lev shows up. No one knows how he got there but he looks so different that Connor did not reconize him right away. A few days later the Admiral chooses Connor to fix a coffeemaker. Admiral says that he hears of Connor a lot because of his fights, but he always fixes the problem. But the coffee maker could not be fixed, but the admiral knew this, and he secratly wanted to have a conversation with Connor. The Admiral explains that Connor's feelings of unease around him are based on rumors. The Admiral wears dentures and he started this because his son was unwound, and that he made a huge mistake by giving his son up. The Admiral also shows him 5 dead people, who werer his top 5, the 3 that gave the tribunals, and 2 others newly arrived people meet. The Admiral wants Connor to find out who killed these people. and he wants connor to be a spy. The Admiral also tells Conner the whole truth about the Heartland War and how the Bill of Life came to be. Lev meets up with Cleaver, and two other kids who want to shake up things in the world. In the next few days Risa notices something going on with both Connor and Lev and tries to get to the bottom of it. Lev and his gang sign up for a job on an oil rig in Alaska. The Admiral admits to Emby, one of the people in Connor's crate when they arrived in the Graveyard has his son Harlan's lung. He sends Emby to his ex-wife to meet other parts of Harlan. It is then revealed that Harlan is the basis of an urban legend Humphrey Dunfee. After the inhabitants of the Graveyard realize people are missing, they begin to forom a mob. Someone unplugs the power line which shuts down all power in the plane the Admiral and Risa are in, making the temperature soar to around 100. While this is happening Connor is trying to get a confession out of Roland that he killed the top 5. When word reaches Connor about the mob he rushes over to try and help, leaving Roland. Connor gets the mob to stop and opens the door to a dying Admiral. He had a heart attack because of the heat in the plane. He rushes to Roland since he is the only one who can fly a helicopter since the mob killed Cleaver because he was associated with the Admiral after he makes a comment about suffocating. Connor figures out he killed the Goldens, the top 5. They fly a helicopter to a hospital to try and save the Admiral. Admiral doesn't want a Unwound kids heart so they do what doctors did before the Heartland Wars. Roland turns in Connor, Risa, the people who live in the Graveyard and inadvertently himself. Then Juvey-cops take away Roland, Risa and Connor to a harvest camp. And it seems as though this is the end for the unwinds.

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