The Chrysalids

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what is the setting of the novel chrysalids?

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Posted by j-adams on April 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM and tagged with chrysalids, the chrysalids

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The novel "The Chrysalids" is set in a future version of Newfoundland/Labrador Canada. Waknuk is in Labrador.

Posted by eathelc on April 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM

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Waknuk is an inland village in southwest Labrador. It contains all the Norm people.

A large island to the notheast known as Greenland is rumored to have an amazonian culture with bizzare habits

Sealand is home to a socially and technologically advanced society where telephaty is the norm and is encouraged and developed.

Fringes is on the outskirts of Wuknuk Here is where the people considered to be deviants are sent. Even though the people of Wuknuk try to get rid od the deviant people by sending them to the Fringes the truth is they can not escape them because they are part of Waknuk , whether thr like it or not

Posted by tinkerbel on May 1, 2009 at 6:27 AM

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Chrysalids in is newflundland in canada after a nuclear war. it is a small community that contains  only "normal" people, or so they think. judging by the fact that there is a turn pike it could possibly be somehwere around st.johns. davids uncle is a sailor so it also points to newfound land

Posted by a-willis on December 3, 2009 at 11:35 PM

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