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The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids is set in Waknuk in a time deep into the distant future. There has been some kind of apocalyptic event, known as the Tribulation, and it has left the people of Waknuk in a 19th...
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The Chrysalids
The conflict of The Chrysalids is very similar to the central conflict of many "post-apocalyptic" or futuristic works--man versus society. David, more than any other characters, represents this...
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The Chrysalids
chrysalis — n , pl chrysalises , chrysalides1. the obtect pupa of a moth or butterfly2. anything in the process of developing[from Latin chrysallis, from Greek khrusallis, from khrusos...
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The Chrysalids
The main theme of The Chrysalids is that we should embrace change instead of fearing it. There are many themes in the book, but the idea that change is not dangerous is an important one. When the...
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The Chrysalids
Let us remember that the bank is first introduced in the first chapter of the novel and is used as a kind of play area for David and it is where he first meets Sophie. David mentions that he uses...
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The Chrysalids
Tribulation gives the leaders an excuse to carefully control everyone and create "Purity of the Race" (ch 6). Tribulation was the holocaust or apocalypse-like incident that wiped out a large part...
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The Chrysalids
The main conflict depicted in the novel The Chrysalids is an external one. The external conflict, man verses man (in this case society), is seen as David strives to find asylum in a place which...
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The Chrysalids
In John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, Uncle Axel is one of the few people in his life that David can trust. Uncle Axel is seemingly more of a father-figure for David than his own father, Joseph. Where...
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The Chrysalids
In Chapter 15, Sophie resurfaces in David's life. When he regains consciousness from his beating for having attacked one of the men in the Fringes for lewdly looking at Rosalind, he finds himself...
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The Chrysalids
In Chapter 4 of The Chrysalids by John Wyndham the crises that occur are a raid; a strange spider-like man; and a challenge about horses. (1) Some of the deviant mutants of Waknuk who have escaped...
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The Chrysalids
Joseph Strorm is cruel in the book The Chrysalids in that he lacks compassion as a human being. He is too rigid in his thinking, not being able to see the value in others who appear different than...
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The Chrysalids
This story is filled with important events, and different readers are going to place emphasis on certain events more than others. For me, the first significant event is David discovering that...
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The Chrysalids
The main difference between the societies of Waknuk and the Fringes is the society’s organizational structure. Waknuk is an agrarian theocracy, and there is generally anarchy in the Fringes....
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The Chrysalids
David's relationship with his father is a strictly ordered one. David's father is the Magistrate of Waknuk. This means that he is responsible fro enforcing all the laws pertaining to deviations and...
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The Chrysalids
David has several dreams that are critical to the story line. However, I think that the question is asking about the dream that David describes in the opening paragraphs of the book. He dreams of a...
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The Chrysalids
For Joseph Strorm, his way is the only way. His father established the rules of Waknuk, declaring anyone unfit who does not fit their narrow view of the world. Joseph Strorm is the heir to Waknuk...
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The Chrysalids
I think one of the biggest similarities you can draw is the way in which religion is portrayed in this future world. I am in no way saying that every religion in our world can be compared to the...
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The Chrysalids
The final few paragraphs of this novel end where the first chapter started. If you remember, the novel begins with David's dream of a strange city with odd flying machines. This example of...
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The Chrysalids
Uncle Axel is David's friend. Among the adults, Uncle Axel is David's best friend. The friendship is deeper that simply an uncle and nephew that like to spend time together. Uncle Axel is a...
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The Chrysalids
In The Chrysalids, there are two books owned by David's grandfather, Elias, to form the basis of this dystopian society. The first is the Bible, and the second is called Repentances, authored by...
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The Chrysalids
David is approximately 16 years old when the story ends. When the story opens, David is ten years old. He tells us that he is about ten when he first realizes that mutants are not evil. That day...
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The Chrysalids
As David discovers from his earliest memories, the gift that he is born with is the ability to telepathically communicate with others of a similar nature, over distance. This is shown at the...
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The Chrysalids
A good overview of The Chrysalids may be found here. Some themes prevalent in the novel include: 1. Isolation and Alienation: David and the "abberrations" are considered as outcasts and alienated...
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The Chrysalids
It is in Chapter Seven where this incident is mentioned. Aunt Harriet comes to David's mother with her new child, having lost two of her children already because of their deviations. Finding out...
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The Chrysalids
It is in Chapter Two that we are given some indications as to the family heritage that David is born into, which in turn helps to explain the unyielding rigidity of his father and why he is such a...
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The Chrysalids
David cannot tell anyone that Sophie has six toes because she and her family would be expelled or killed for not conforming to the True Image. Waknuk is a deeply religious society where laws...
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The Chrysalids
Remember that the climax in terms of the structure of the plot of a novel is defined as the key scene in the story - that tense or exciting or terrifying moment when our emotional involvement is...
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The Chrysalids
John Wyndham's The Chrysalids is about a civilization that has become intolerant to any kind of deviation with regard to the appearance of people or their "abilities." This includes Sophie who has...
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The Chrysalids
It is in Chapter 2 that David describes to us the house in which he lives and the signs that you refer to. The signs are placed in the biggest room - the main living room of the family, and David...
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The Chrysalids
It is in Chapter 14 that Rosalind and David are close enough to the woman from Sealand to be able to communicate with her themselves, rather than relying on Petra to communicate for them. Chapter...
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The Chrysalids
In The Chrysalids, David goes from an innocent little boy to a young man with adult responsibilities. In the beginning of the story, David reflects on a moment that shaped his childhood. It was...
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The Chrysalids
From the perspective of the Walnuk people, Tribulation in The Chrysalids is a kind of punishment or trial, a stage of development imposed to motivate people to cleanse their world of all deviation....
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The Chrysalids
David says that he has loved Rosalind as long as he can remember. All of the telepaths are very close. Being able to read another person’s mind is an intimate thing. David and Rosalind grow to...
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The Chrysalids
The conflict between Rosalind and Sophie concerns jealousy over David. Sophie and Rosalind both have a connection to David, and both are jealous. He can communicate telepathically with Rosalind,...
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The Chrysalids
An example of David’s thoughts on deviation is when he prays to be normal. David worries about Sophie’s deviation, but he has a problem of his own. David has a secret deviation, because he is a...
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The Chrysalids
The rising action is the part of the plot that leads to the climax. This section of the plot comes straight after the exposition, and takes the form of a series of events that ratchet up the...
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The Chrysalids
We are given this information about Elias Strorm, David's grandfather, in Chapter 2 of this great dystopian novel. David gives us some background information describing how his family came to be in...
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The Chrysalids
In The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, David and the other discovered telepaths are escaping to and through the Fringes because they have been discovered and are in danger of torture and murder. Petra,...
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The Chrysalids
I most admire David, after all, he is the hero and thus constructed so as to gain our admiration. He has the ability to rise above his social circumstances and see falsehoods that others believe to...
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The Chrysalids
Waknuk is governed by two main texts: the bible and Nicholson's Repentances. Only Nicholson's Repentances had come out of the wilderness of barbarism, and that only because it had lain for,...
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The Chrysalids
Sophie is an important character because she is David's, and the reader's, first introduction to a Deviant. Waknuk society drills into young people's minds that Deviants (people with genetic...
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The Chrysalids
David and Rosalind are both "Deviants." They have a genetic mutation that gives them telepathic abilities. The entire Waknuk society is scared of any kind of change to the gene pool that falls...
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The Chrysalids
Well, the most obvious example of foreshadowing in this excellent dystopian novel is the very beginning, where David dreams of the city of Sealand that he finally reaches at the end of the novel....
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The Chrysalids
David’s Uncle Axel is very supportive of him, and they have a father-son relationship that is much better than the one between David and his own father. David is much closer with Axel than his own...
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The Chrysalids
John Wender is suspicious of David because his father is Joseph Strorm, the head of their religion. John Wender is Sophie’s father. He has good reason to try to protect Sophie. She is not like...
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The Chrysalids
David Strorm is a hero because: 1. He discovers Sophie's mutation and keeps it secret from his father, the ruling hegemony. He also keeps secret the fact that he's been communicating telepathically...
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The Chrysalids
At the beginning of Chapter 6, David is informed that Sophie and her parents have been captured. After learning this news and having been beaten, David decides to run away from home. This news of...
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The Chrysalids
This incident indicates the absurdity of the situation in which David is living, as one careless remark comes to be misinterpreted so grotesquely. David hurts his hand on a splinter, and goes to...
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The Chrysalids
When Uncle Axel describes Tribulation as nothing more than a "word... A rusted mirror, reflecting nothing," he is explaining how the way in which the powers that be in this dystopian world treat...
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The Chrysalids
David ran away to the Fringes because one of the Telepaths, Anne, married a normal man and then told him about her special powers. He was the one who turned in David’s friend Sophie, so naturally...