CyFi - Julia

Next I am going to write about CyFi because I found him to be very interesting in Unwind. His situation in the book is very unique and fascinating.


"'It's a he,' Cy saiys. 'I don't know his name. He musta kept his name in another part of his brain. All I got was his right temporal lobe. That's only an eighth of the cerebral cortex, so I'm seven-eighths me, and one-eighth him... He's not a bad kid. He's just hurting. Hurting real bad. He's got this urge to grab things- like an addiction, y'know? Shiny things mostly. It's not that he really wants them, it's just that he kind of needs to snap 'em up. I figure he's a kleptomaniac. That means... ah, hell, you know what it means.' 'So, he talks to you?' 'No, not really. I didn't get the part of him that uses words. I get feelings mostly. Sometimes images, but usually just feelings.'" (Shusterman 137-138)


I thought this part was especially interesting. It gave an opposite sort of side to what happens to an Unwind, the true explanation as to how they aren't "dead." This part continued to get climactic as CyFi went back to Joplin, and then to the kid's house to see his parents. This part was rather creepy to me. I couldn't stop imagining if this was me, and I had part of someone else's brain and they could control some of me. This would be awful and scary, which is exactly how CyFi was feeling. I'm surprised that something like this hadn't happened before, and the government hadn't had some way to control this so it didn't happen to someone else. I just found this part of the book completely fascinating, mostly because I just kept on imagining what it would be like if somebody could control some of my brain too, and what would happen if they could. I thought that Neal Shusterman did a great job of putting this into the book, because it wasn't really necessary or a key part to the book, but it added so much and gave another side to the Unwinding mystery that was taking place.