Theme #4

My book club book was Turnabout, Haddix. The lesson or theme I learned was, Some things in life aren't as good as they may seem. An example in the book was on pg 16, Dr. Jimson, the co-leader of Project Turnabout, said that they wouldn't be able to visit their families, because their families believed that they had their bodies donated to science. The only reason I would want to live forever or unage, would so I would be able to spend more time with my family. But here, they don't even allow you to visit your family. On pg 83, this was a flashback Melly was remembering. When she turned 100, (from 101) she totally forgot all her memories of the past year. Dr. Jimson explained,  "Because the brain is unaging too, following the first time around," Dr. Jimson said. "It's like we hit the rewind and record buttons at the same time. So she's recording over her old memories." p.83 I think that I would want to remember everything that happened in my life, before I started to unage and get younger. So many people want to live forever or become younger, but everyone thinks it's going to be amazing. Well in Turnabout, the author included all these consequences and bad things that could happen to Melly and Anny Beth, because they were part of the project Turnabout.