Response to Parents- Julia

I think that there are probably a lot of parents who wished that they hadn't chosen to unwind their child. It's like the saying, "You didn't know what you had until it was gone." Or something like that. :) This is kind of what happened to the Admiral. He and his wife realized that they didn't want to unwind their son, only they decided this after he was already unwound. I thought that the party/gathering that they had to remember him with all of his body part recipients was really bittersweet. "There will be no surgeries here, in spite of the rumors, rebuilding Harlan piece by piece was never the plan. But the Dunfrees are putting their son together in the only meaningful way they can." (Shusterman 331). I think that this is so sad, especially when the Admiral hears his son's voice. But I think that the entire point of this part of the story is to show that parents did miss their children after they were unwound, and this is helping the adult population realize that unwinding isn't such a great idea.