This section opens with Lev in a pawnbroker's. What does this tell you about how his character is changing?
Lev character is changing in ways where he is no longer hiding behind someone and running away from a situation to get help from an adult, instead, he's fighting for someone and himself by loosening up a bit and becoming a bit more aggressive so he can get his way. and also his trust in people has gone down due to knowing that if he trusted people he would be at a higher risk of getting unwound than he was before.
While being transported to possible safety. Some of the kids on the run wonder, "Would it be better to die or be unwound?" If given the choice, which would you choose? Why? This response requires more than one or two sentences! Put forward at least three reasons why you think you do.
I'm my opinion I'd rather die to be honest than die and get taken apart, Reason why is because I'd rather have every part of me still intact so I can die peacefully like others so I know that I died my own person to stay my own person and not to die and go to someone else to be apart of someone who will soon own that part of me, officially making a part of me theirs.
I also don't want to go to someone else just to cause them pain, as shown with Cy-Fi even since he got a part of Tyler's brain his life hasn't been the same and sometimes he switches out into a personality like Tylers and steals things just like Tyler did, doing that hurts Cy-Fi because he doesn't like stealing.
And lastly, I don't want anyone to have any part of me, to begin with, it's my body anyway, so why should people have something that's apart of me when they could have someone else's, I mean think about it there's already been lots of people being unwound so why not go to them to get parts. I honestly just rather die whole, I rather die intact at each end, not a single limb missing.
Another question the kids in the book discuss is, "If every part of you is still alive but inside someone else, are you alive or are you dead?" They also wonder if consciousness can exist even if it's spread out, and if the soul remains intact. What do you think? Read Thomas Hobbes' Ship of Theseus puzzle to help you make a decision. Be sure to reference it in your answer.
https://metaphysicist.com/puzzles/ship_theseus/
In my opinion, based on real-world knowledge and not book knowledge where indeed if you have a certain part of a brain that functions movement or memories then it's possible to have the other person memories or for yourself to lose control because the other person believes their still alive, making it seem that the part that was given to someone else is possibly still alive and active as shown with Cy-fi and Tyler who was a boy that got unwound and found himself attached to Cy-fi but sometimes Cy-fi losses control of himself like Tyler takes control of his body and emotions and thoughts leaving Cy-fi in a panic. But apart from that no. I don't believe that in the real human world knowledge, I hardly believe that if you get a part of someone that already died and that part happens to be a brain or a leg, I doubt that you'd automatically just lose control of your thoughts and legs because even if you get something from someone else that's died, it's basically impossible for them to take control again because their already dead and gone. It's like a sentence from the Ship of Theseus - Once every part had been replaced. Hobbes offered the reassembled ship as the true original. But he may have had his tongue in his cheek about the ambiguous use of language in truth claims. ITis the true original, qua material, but not qua a functioning ship
By this, I'm saying that you can fix someone up with new parts, but it won't be the original parts of someone and the parts that once were alive will never be the same and will never function with their own muscle memory again.
This section of the novel sees Lev and Cy-Fi finally make it to Joplin. As they get closers Cy-Fi's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. What are some of the things he does, or things he likes, that are not his own behaviours or memories?An example of this is when Cyrus or Cy-Fi says that Tyler, the person who is now attached to him like Pumpkin Ice-Cream, where Cyrus doesn't. Another is when they're going to Joplin and they reach a certain street Cyrus walks through the street like he knows it, but he himself has never been to Joplin before.
What was Cy-Ty hiding in his backyard? Pg 185-194In a hole in the ground in his backyard was a briefcase which consisted of different type of jewellery.
The section ends with Cy-Ty reaching his destination. What do you think of his parents' behaviour? What does Lev's support show you about his character?Tyler's parent's act frighten around Cyrus, (Who in the book they called Tyler, due to Tyler being an evidence entity within Cyrus now) because they had thought that he would harm them. And Lev, his support in the story shows that he's not afraid to stick up for himself and other any more, and when it comes to sticking up for himself and others he tends to show a more violent forceful side that we never saw in the start of the book.
