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The Admiral’s helicopter pilot and right-hand man. He’s a greasy man with long hair, and unbeknownst to the Admiral, is a recruiter for the clappers. Indeed, nobody suspects him; even though Connor doesn’t like him much, Cleaver is nothing more than a background figure in Connor’s mind. Cleaver recruits Blaine and Mai and leads them in murdering the Goldens before orchestrating an attack with Lev on the Happy Jack Harvest Camp. Cleaver dies in the riot outside the Admiral’s airplane, as he’s the only adult around for the teens to direct their anger toward. Rather than being scared or sad, however, he dies insisting that he loves chaos—even if the chaos, in this case, brings about his own demise.
Cleaver Quotes in Unwind
The Unwind quotes below are all either spoken by Cleaver or refer to Cleaver. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 35
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He could join them just out of spite, but that’s not enough—not this time. There must be more. Yet, as he stands there, Lev realizes that there is more. It’s invisible, but it’s there, like the deadly charge lurking in a downed power line. Anger, but not just anger: a will to act on it as well.
“All right, I’m in.” Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn’t realized how much he missed that feeling.
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Chapter 57
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Lev was terrified of these people, and yet he felt a kinship with them. They understood the misery of being betrayed by life. They understood what it felt like to have less than nothing inside you. And when they told Lev how important he was in the scheme of things, Lev felt, for the first time in a long time, truly important.
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Cleaver Quotes in Unwind
The Unwind quotes below are all either spoken by Cleaver or refer to Cleaver. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 35
Quotes
He could join them just out of spite, but that’s not enough—not this time. There must be more. Yet, as he stands there, Lev realizes that there is more. It’s invisible, but it’s there, like the deadly charge lurking in a downed power line. Anger, but not just anger: a will to act on it as well.
“All right, I’m in.” Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn’t realized how much he missed that feeling.
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Chapter 57
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Lev was terrified of these people, and yet he felt a kinship with them. They understood the misery of being betrayed by life. They understood what it felt like to have less than nothing inside you. And when they told Lev how important he was in the scheme of things, Lev felt, for the first time in a long time, truly important.
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