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stacyja
stacyja
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High School - 11th Grade

Compare and contrast the themes of Beka Lamb and Chrysalids?

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Posted by stacyja on Friday October 10, 2008 at 9:29 AM and tagged with beka lamb and chrysalids, the darling.

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  1. anawatsup
    anawatsup Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    i know the themes in beka lamb but not the other thing. beka lamb has in change, death, friendship, society and political something. peace

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    Posted by anawatsup on Tuesday November 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM

  2. shamz
    shamz Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    When comparing the themes of beka lamb and the chrisalids i find that they both deal with the same fact of life. Being the love of friends and family. In both books we find that the main characters loses a friend. In beka lamb Beka lost toycie and in the chrysalids David and his telepathic friends lost Anne, a telepath.

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    Posted by shamz on Tuesday January 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM

  3. keziapets
    keziapets Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    well beka lamb is way different from the chrysalids because the chrysalids deals with people who have super natural powers while beka lamb talks abiout the turning point in a young girls life but they are kind of simular in a way. because they both talk about seeing through your promblem and getting through them

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    Posted by keziapets on Thursday February 5, 2009 at 5:08 PM

  4. danibrocks
    danibrocks Student
    College - Freshman

    Beka Lamb raises the themes;

    political change ( most importantly)

    social prejudice (creoles not accepted by the white)

    madness ( as it relates to toycie)

    growing up ( beka trys to find herself)

    death ( toycie dies)

    social change

    women in society (they were expected to be submissive)

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    Posted by danibrocks on Friday February 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM

  5. lezama
    lezama Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    The Themes of beka lamb and the chrysalids are very simiiar especially when you look at the role of women in society and social prejudice.

    In Beka Lamb women are the ones who are seen as the care givers and the ones to take care of the home. The majority of them do not work and even having an education for the lower class is untold or unheard of.

    In The Chrysalids women are seen as the same and are given most of the punishment when it comes to producing "deviants"

    Here you see a similarity because in Beka Lamb Toysie is seen as solely responsible for her pregnancy and has to take the social shame as well as being expelled from school. Women in the Chrysalids are given "penances" for producing deviants

    The Theme of prejudice is explored in Beka Lamb as racial prejudice as she is black and the society looks down on her to be another statistic as many of the other women in society have become.

    this theme is explored in The Chysalids as all deviants are seen as not human enough to be around other "non deviants" and women who produce deviants are also shown prejudice as society looks apon them as being unable to give birth to normal children. This is seen when aunt Hariot commits sucide because of the number of deviant babies she gave birth to society even her husband looked down on her.

    So the themes of Beka Lamb and The Chysalids are very closely linked.

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    Posted by lezama on Sunday April 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM

  6. jodi-ann
    jodi-ann Student
    High School - 11th Grade

    Both novels protrays the same themes and almost the same issues are highlighted in both texts. In Beka Lamb the issue of religion was very dominant. When Beka best friend Toycie got pregnant she had to left school, because the school was a catholic school and to top it off she even got expelled because of the beliefs of that school. While in Chrysalids religion was very dominant. In this novel David who is the protaganist had alot of this to deal with. His father was seen as one of the main religious man in the novel. David's best friend Sophie was a deviant and was seen as a threat to the community of Waknuk. Even though David knew about Sophie's default he had to keep it as a secret inorder to safe her from the community of Waknuk. In both novels the theme of friendship was also highlighted very strongly. In the Chrysalids, David and Sophie had a strong friendship going on. It was so important to David that he had decides to keep a secret for his best friend that automatically cause conflicts between him and his family. He had to run away from home just to keep this secret fo his friend. While in Beka Lamb, Beka was almost faced with the same situation only that her best friend Toycie was engaged in an intimate relationship with Emilio, which eventually leads to pregnancy. Beka had to keep this as secret  so that Toycie's teacher and family didn't know but unfortunately things didn't go as how they would have wanted.

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    Posted by jodi-ann on Tuesday September 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM