Unwind

by Neal Shusterman
published in 2007

At no time in this book are "clappers" described in this book, if I read this book correctly. As I am reading this book the mention a fear of clappers, a cult of some sort. People will actually freak out if someone starts clapping. I know this because an entire school starts freaking out and evacuating when the main characters start clapping to escape. Makes no sense whatsoever. Like I said before, everything makes sense at the end of the book. Clappers are the equivilance to our suicide bombers. Clappers have their bombs infused into their blood that ignite upon stress, so clapping is one method to ignite the bomb. Clappers intend to bring about chaos and change. That is about the extent of what the book describes clappers to be. I'd be scared of people like that too because they have no defined motive. They just have a sense that something has to happen and because of that no one has any idea what kinds of things are running through their heads. Even though I would be scared of people like this, in this book, clappers were described to be against the unwinding of people and the way Shusterman used them to help reach his conclusion was well done and the clappers can't be hated as our terrorists are.