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Tahereh Mafi

Unravel Me

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

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Chapters 43-51Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 43 Summary

Juliette sits in her room, still astonished that Adam and Warner are brothers. Despite this commonality, the two brothers have made different choices that have led to their lives being very different.

Castle arrives and offers Juliette her first official Omega Point assignment, which she is excited to receive until she learns that the assignment is to interrogate Warner. Castle says Juliette will be less afraid than anyone else, since Warner can’t touch her, and Juliette doesn’t correct him. She wonders how long she can keep Warner’s ability to touch her a secret.

Chapter 44 Summary

Juliette stands in front of Warner’s door, thinking of the accident that led him to realize he could touch her and the kiss (which she used as a distraction, at the end of Shatter Me, in order to grab Warner’s gun and shoot him) that confirmed it. She hasn’t told anyone and now can’t tell Adam that “the one person he hates most in this world—second only to his father” (147) can touch her. The guards at Warner’s door thank her for coming; Warner has been destroying everything in the room and only calmed down once he heard Juliette was coming. Juliette attempts to seem confident despite her nerves.

She muses on the different things, good and bad, that she has seen Warner do and how Anderson tormented him. She hopes he won’t hurt her but is reassured that she can call for help.

Chapter 45 Summary

Warner, in uncharacteristically simple clothing, sits on the floor in the room. He holds up Juliette’s notebook, which she kept in the psychiatric facility, and admits he’s read it many times. This makes Juliette, who wrote those things in isolation, feel vulnerable. Warner begins to read a section in which Juliette writes about the pain of her isolation and soon switches to reciting from memory. As Juliette begs him to stop, Warner reads a passage about Juliette wanting to run until she dies. Juliette tries to push the memories away and Warner confesses that, after reading this section, he wanted to murder whoever she wrote about chasing her.

Juliette asks for the notebook back, but Warner ignores this, instead apologizing for kissing her. He says he didn’t know she didn’t want him to, to which Juliette, astonished, replies that she told him she hated him. Warner, wryly amused, says he hears that often, but what really amuses him is that Juliette found it so easy to try to kill him, even after insisting that she didn’t want to be a murderer. This hits Juliette hard, and she is appalled by the ways she manages to rationalize violence. Suddenly convinced coming there was a mistake, Juliette turns to leave, but Warner begs her to stay. Juliette stays though she isn’t sure why.

Warner talks about the kinship he felt reading Juliette’s notebook, then asks how long it will be before he is killed. Juliette, confused, says they aren’t going to kill him; they’re using him as a hostage to get their men back. This makes Warner laugh. His father doesn’t care enough about him enough to barter for his life. Kidnapping him was a waste of time.

Chapter 46 Summary

Juliette, Kenji, Adam, and James discuss Juliette’s meeting with Warner over lunch though Juliette leaves out the parts about the notebook. She wonders if she should admit that Warner can touch her but can’t bring herself to do so. When Adam rescued her journal from the psychiatric facility in Shatter Me, he respected her privacy while Warner “ransacked [her] mind” (280). She hates that Warner knows her thoughts.

Adam agrees that Anderson likely doesn’t care that Warner has been kidnapped. Kenji says Castle is worried, as it has been two days since the attack, and they haven’t heard anything from The Reestablishment. Adam suggests that this could be because Juliette shot Anderson in both legs. James misunderstands and think it was Kenji who shot Anderson, and Kenji doesn’t correct him, but explains, at James’s question, that you can’t always kill the leader of an enemy movement, as this will lead to chaos. You can only remove the leader when there is a new leader ready to take over. Kenji and James continue talking, but Juliette loses track of the conversation when she notices Adam staring at her. Adam suddenly stands and says that Kenji did him a favor by not killing Anderson when he had the chance but walks away before he can explain what he means.

Chapter 47 Summary

Juliette follows Adam, though she knows she should create emotional space between them. She asks if Adam is okay, which angers him, because he doesn’t know how to react to such a question. They both still love one another. Adam again asks why they can’t be together, but Juliette still insists it’s too dangerous. She shows him her super strength and admits she was the one who shot Anderson. Adam is astonished but still insists that Juliette is a good person. He will always love her.

They don’t notice anyone else is there until Warner, who is being led by Castle, chimes in, taunting Adam for having so little dignity that he would beg for Juliette’s love. Adam shouts at Warner, who tells him that Adam will never deserve Juliette.

Chapter 48 Summary

During a training session, Juliette shows James how easily she can break things. She’s become adept at the skill and Kenji has been encouraging her to attempt projecting her ability from afar. James, who wants to be like Adam, Kenji, and Juliette, attempts to crush a brick but slips and cuts his hand. Kenji is alarmed, but James insists it will “go away,” and when Kenji and Juliette look at his hand, the large gash is already nearly healed. Kenji takes James to the medical bay to meet Sonya and Sara.

Castle appears and asks Juliette if it is true that Warner can touch her, and she admits that he can. Castle asks how this is possible, but Juliette doesn’t reveal that Warner is Adam’s brother. She suddenly realizes, “Warner is one of us” (164), meaning those with Energy.

Chapter 49 Summary

Given Castle’s knowledge about Warner’s ability, he cannot keep Warner prisoner. Juliette protests that Warner tried to kill Adam and Kenji, but Castle made an oath that Omega Point would always be a haven for those with supernatural gifts. Castle asks why Juliette had kept Warner’s ability to touch her a secret, and she admits she didn’t want Adam to know. Castle wishes he could keep her secret—but even if he could, it’s likely that Warner wouldn’t; Warner volunteered the information after seeing Adam and Juliette in the hallway. Castle laughs as he realizes Warner loves Juliette. He doesn’t envy Juliette, and Castle doesn’t even know the worst part: that Warner and Adam are brothers who hate one another.

Chapter 50 Summary

Juliette realizes Warner told Castle about his ability to touch her in to manipulate her and regrets feeling bad for him earlier. She asks Castle to put someone else in charge of interrogating Warner, but Castle refuses. He wishes to use Warner’s feelings for Juliette as leverage, reminding her that Winston and Brendan are still at risk.

Juliette agrees: She won’t fall for Warner’s games and will treat him like a prisoner. She enters Warner’s room and is astonished to find him sleeping in just his underwear. She thinks about how peaceful he looks and decides she can’t write him off as being entirely evil. She is about to leave when she sees her notebook next to his hand. She tries to creep close enough to grab it when she sees a tattoo that says “IGNITE” on Warner’s back, which is covered with scars. She feels sick at the sight of the scars, thinking of the pain that must have caused them.

Warner awakes suddenly. He is startled but tries to act unaffected. When Juliette asks about his scars, he brushes her off, and when she asks about the tattoo, he asks why she’s suddenly so interested in him. The answer becomes clear to Juliette: She doesn’t want to be his enemy anymore. She asks why he’s still trying to manipulate her, which seems to confuse him. She clarifies: Why did he tell Castle he could touch her? Warner says Castle needed to know, even though Juliette disagrees. Warner counters that it shouldn’t matter who knows if Juliette still hates him. Juliette confesses that she doesn’t, even though she has tried to hate him for all the terrible things he’s done. Warner, pained, asks if she wants to be friends, but Juliette doesn’t know. Still, Warner is pleased. He would like to be Juliette’s friend.

Juliette fears that one day she will do something as horrible as the things Warner has done and that nobody will give her the benefit of the doubt. Overcome by this feeling, she flees the room.

Chapter 51 Summary

In a short, italicized journal-style chapter, Juliette wonders how to move forward when a single choice affects your entire life. She asks, “What do we do from here?” (172).

Chapters 43-51 Analysis

In these chapters, Juliette reels from the revelation that Adam and Warner are brothers, which leads her to consider The Influence of Parents and Families on the course of someone’s life. Adam “has no parents but a father who beat him, abused him, abandoned him only to ruin the rest of the world and left him a brand-new brother who is exactly his opposite in every possible way” (227). Though she casts Adam and Warner as opposites, they are similar in important ways: Both brothers hate their father, both have immunity to Juliette’s touch, and both fall in love with her. She “[struggles] to reconcile Adam with his new sibling who is really nothing more than a boy, a child who hates his father and as a result, a child who made a series of very unfortunate decisions in life” (227). The revelation causes Juliette’s increased identification with Warner which, in turn, helps her view Warner with increased sympathy.

These chapters also contain the return of Juliette’s notebook, a continued motif from Shatter Me. Juliette was forced to leave behind her notebook during her escape from Warner’s compound. During Warner’s imprisonment at Omega Point, he reveals that not only has he kept the notebook, but that he has read it many times. Juliette’s scene with Warner in prison awakens the Psychological Effects of Physical Isolation that she experienced previously. Juliette feels vulnerable, knowing that Warner has read her private thoughts that she wrote in a compromised emotional and psychological state. However, this shared knowledge also increases the growing intimacy between them, particularly when Warner quotes passages and discusses how he identifies with Juliette’s thoughts at various moments. Juliette’s experience of feeling like an outcast is something she has never been able to share, and this makes Warner’s admissions particularly compelling. The return of the journal as a symbolic object reinforces the growing similarity between Warner and Juliette, who learn over the course of Unravel Me that they are more alike than they initially realized.

Furthermore, these chapters show a reversal of circumstances from Shatter Me. While in the first book, Juliette was Warner’s prisoner, now Warner is under her power. While Juliette consistently rejected Warner’s authority in Shatter Me, Warner resents being contained by Omega Point but calms considerably when he is being interrogated by Juliette personally. This reversed dynamic foreshadows an even closer connection between the two as the novel progresses.

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