Part One - Triplicate II Novel Study II English

"I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless." - Samson Ward

1 How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort of claim as they're being led to their "death"?
I really don't think brainwashing is really involved as it's just really common senes that they're using, they know that they won't wake up to see another day and having common senes makes people fear that. So to them "Living in a divided state" is also like never waking up again and never achieving that one thing in life they've always wanted to, so to them it's like dying. because when you die, you don't wake up. so even if a part of them is going somewhere else, their not going to really experience anything that, that part of them is doing.

2 Why, do you think, has Shusterman chosen to have three characters tell their story?
To show us the story between a normal kid, an orphan kid, and a religious kid and how they react and work together to survive from being unwound.

3 Lev is a tithe. This means that he is the 10% that his family will give back to the church as an offering. What are your thoughts on this?
Honestly, I don't know what to think, I mean religious people have many different rules from non-reglious people, and just the thought of knowing you're going to die at a certain age just freaks me out. because what if there's something he really wants to do but has to give that up because he was told to. It's kinda sad knowing that you'll never see your loved one's again just because your parents said that you're doing a great thing for the family and for the church. to me, it just sounds like their just trying to get rid of him, they're a king and a queen and he's just the pawn in their game, he's their little pawn to just sacrifice to win the game.

4 Risa is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and now the state have deiced she is no longer useful. Do you think that the state should ever be able to determine if one life is more useful than another?
Probably. I guess it just depends on how they act and what they wish to do for a job... but then again it's the state and no ones gonna wanna deny the state due to how much power they have.

5 Connor's parents have chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parents view their children? Why do you think this?
Parents who unwind their children view their children as basically nothing, they neglect and toss them to the side. because they're just going to die anyway. So there would be no point in their eyes to pay attention to them, or really give them the love they needed. to parents their just objects waiting to get thrown out and recycled for better use.

6 Pastor Dan presents as being conflicted. What reasons might he have to encourage Lev in his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run?
At the start, he encourages Lev due to religious reasons, and he encourages Lev to run later on because he felt something for Lev, guilt. because he hasn't experienced everything in life that he should have the chance to experience, and probably that he feels that no child should feel happy about the fact that their dying.