Unwind Blog #1 Elissa Briones

I think hiding from the enemy relates to the book because technically the kids are running from their enemy aka unwinding place. Just like in life people run or hide from their enemy "their problems" all the time. There are a lot of people that will not face their problems but try to hide from them by covering them up and forgetting about them. Connor, Risa, and Lev are doing the same thing in the book. They are hiding and running away from their problem instead of facing it and dealing with the consequences. Just like in World War II, the Jews would hide and hide and hide all the time from he Nazi's so they wouldn't be taken to the concentration camps. In a book called Among the Enemy: Hiding in Plain Sight in Nazi Germany, it states true events that happened to this young Jewish boy. He flees from this ghetto days before the killing squad comes in and kills people. This relates to our book because the kid flees from the Ghetto to hides from the Nazi's so he will not die. "Risa fixes her eyes on the front door of the bus, holds her breath, and races toward that door" This quote is from when the bus taking Risa to the Unwind place crashes and she runs for the door to runaway. "He pushes past them and into the woods." This quote is from when Connor goes back to get Lev and picks him up and runs into the woods where he seen Risa run to. This ties into hiding from the enemy because the kids take off running into the woods to hide and runaway from the cops and the unwind place.