Themes

=**Themes** =

Theme (noun) // The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic //


 * 1. "Keep your friends closer, but your enemies closer" **

As Roland shows through out the novel he tries to win over everyone so that he can control them. He does this so he can get to Connor. However also Lev does the same thing at the start of the book by pretending to be allied with Connor and Risa and then going to betray them. The General did the same thing when he was still serving because he pretended to follow what the government believed but instead he created a hide out from runaway unwinds.


 * 2. "Experiences change people" **

This theme is shown in the book by all the characters. They all mature greatly. Lev changed the most in the book he started off as a tithe excited to be unwound and ended up as a clapper fighting against the very thing he used to live for. Also Connor changed a lot as Risa said in the following quote //"It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man." // Connor went from being a young teenager who acts on impulses into a man due to the experiences he faced; from learning his fate, becoming a celebrity in the eyes of unwinds and falling in love


 * 3. "Growing up may not always turn out as thought" **

We chose this as a theme to represent the novel because it shows the life of Lev in many ways and also ours. None of us can expect what happens to us and definitely not for Lev. As shown in this quote// "His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory." //said about Lev he knew his whole life that he was a tithe, which meant that he would be unwound but suddenly his life takes a whole different course and he walks into unknown territories. // "Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up." // We felt that also this quote showed this theme because when you are young one lives in a dream world and then suddenly as they start coming of age, they wake up and realize how it is not so perfect as they imagined it to be.