Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Unwind, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Inequality, Injustice, and the Law
Anger, Violence, and Radicalization
Activism, Compassion, and Atonement
Morality and Perspective
Summary
Analysis
Connor isn’t imagining things: Lev is now clean-cut again and is at Happy Jack Harvest Camp. He doesn’t see Connor because tithes, who “have a higher calling,” are told not to “look at the terribles.” He pretends to be sensitive and mild as his appointment for unwinding in 13 days gets closer.
Note that Lev is only pretending to be sensitive and mild—this is an explicit indicator that Lev isn’t the actually sensitive and mild tithe the reader met at the beginning of the novel. Importantly, this is because Lev is now consumed by anger, which makes him more likely to act out violently and believe that doing so is the only way to handle his emotions (rather than talking, as Connor has learned to do).
Themes
