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This appears to be a "yes" or "no" question. Without knowing a specific sequence that is being referenced in this question, the answer should be based on the entire book. If that time frame is...
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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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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 Tribulation must have been an incredibly violent set of events that essentially brought a cataclysmic end to the world as people knew it back then. The Waknuk people know about fires, floods,...
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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 is a 1955 science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham. Its post-apocalyptic world is one which forces an extreme amount of outward conformity on its members and kills those...
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Michael's primary reason for staying back to retrieve Rachel is that they love each other. While it is a secondary plot line, the romantic relationships between David/Rosalind and Michael/Rachel...
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The primary thing that Petra does that is forbidden is to communicate telepathically as a deviant Blasphemy. Other than that, in Chapter 11, Petra rides her pony into the forbidden forest area....
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Actually, you are completely right. As the story develops, his goal does change accordingly, but you have identified his raison d'etre for the first section of the novel. It is clear that when he...
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Very insightful question! Well, I guess it depends on who you ask. In the novel, the woman from Sealand definitely thinks that Waknuk deserves to die, and in fact, that it is inevitable. Consider...
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David, Rosalind, Petra, and Michael go to the Fringes after they are exposed as deviants. David’s society is one in which an apocalypse of some kind has left everyone so frightened of offending...
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I believe that David Strorm goes through two main categories of transformation in The Chyrsalids. One transformation is an emotional, allegiance change. The other is a physical change. Let's...
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The people of the Fringes are treated badly in David's society, considered enemies to the people because they are mutated and raid the community from time to time. David begins to question the...
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Anne wants to marry a normal man because she wants to have a normal life. Let's explore the text and see what reason is offered. Anne, who is thirteen when she is first introduced, is the oldest...
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I can't pick a single quote. I'm sorry. I had to pick two, because I feel that they are both equally important to the story and the message that it conveys. The first quote is the following: "The...
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I believe that the "people" that the question references are the members of the Waknuk society. The people in the Waknuk society are sheltering themselves from and actively fighting against...
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Sophie is an outcast because she has six toes. In her society, anyone who is different is taken from the family and expelled to the Fringes to live among heathens. Her family protects her by...
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When we meet David at the beginning of the book he is an innocent boy still trying to understand the world. While he has been taught Nicholson's Repentances and this community's interpretation of...
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Both Huxley and Wyndham write about dystopian societies in order to provide commentary on our society. Both novels touch on similar themes: 1) Science and Technology's impact on our world Huxley's...
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Hello! In 'The Chrysalids,' we learn that both David and Sophie belong to a religious totalitarian society. David lives in Waknuk, which is situated in Labrador. This society lives by a strict set...
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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 reason that the animal attack on Petra is so dangerous is because of her response. Because Petra is a telepath, her cry for help was not an auditory scream. During the attack, she let out a...
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In "The Chrysalids," David Wyndham opens the novel with narration from David who is describing dreams that he often has. He tells us that he shares these dreams with his oldest sister, Mary. She...
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I think there are plenty of examples of irony in this text. Remember that irony is the gap between appearance and reality. It is incredibly ironic that it is amongst the children of one of the most...
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In John Wyndham's novel, The Chrysalids, Joseph Strorm (notice the spelling of his last name) is the epitome of a cruel father for many reasons. First, he is very rigid and set in his ways. He...
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David is very close with his cousin Rosalind. She is not a direct full cousin. She is the daughter of his half-uncle Angus. Even though they are half-cousins they are very close because they...
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There are a few moments in The Chysalids that I feel are significant turning points. One turning point occurs early in the story. That is when David discovers Sophie's extra toe. It's a turning...
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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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At the beginning of John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, I would suggest that one of David's most outstanding characteristics is his innocence and the trusting nature that comes with it. His innocence is...
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'For ours is a superior variant, and we are only just beginning. We are able to think-together ... we are not dogmatists teaching God how He should have ordered the world. 'The essential...
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Joseph Storm is repeatedly refered to as an incredibly zealous man who is always eager to show his industrious nature in every aspect of his life. You might like to read Chapter Two where he is...
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In Chapter 8 of The Chrysalids, Uncle Axel seeks to build David's self-esteem after the fears he has had. His mother's sister, Aunt Harriet, took her life because she had given birth to another...
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The main event in Chapter 11 is when Petra, unknowingly, sends out a distress call telephathically that is so strong that all of the telepaths feel they must go and answer it straight away. This,...
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I don't think that the author does anything overly special to keep the suspense high at this point. Readers have been reading 11 previous chapters that are about David and his group of friends...
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I often think I am alone in thinking of David as not being the most impressive hero in this novel. Let me explain and justify my viewpoint. If we consider the story, which is of course told from...
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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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David and six others (one has died) talk in what he calls "thought shapes." Because of the prohibition against "Mutants" they feel uneasy in their community, worried that they may be discovered....
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There are three most prominent modes through which moral values are instilled in the citizens of Waknuk. One starts earliest with the youngest children. They learn to be terrified of the...
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The signs you refer to actually appear in Chapter 2, and not just in the kitchen, but in the big room in the Storm's house. Note how important these "truths" are to this community, that such signs...
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The Sealand woman doesn't explicitly say that her society is more pleasant or idealistic than the Waknuk's society or the Fringe's society. She says that it is a natural progression. She says...
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The people of Waknuk kill deviations and mutations for two interconnected and mutually supporting reasons, one practical and one religious or ideological. The practical reason is that they live in...
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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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In the book, David received help from several people but I think the three whose help had the most impact were his open-minded Uncle Axel, his sister Petra and Michael. After Uncle Axel found David...
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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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From David we can learn to be open-minded about the world and the people in it, and not blindly follow the will of our parents. Children are definitely impacted by their parents’ beliefs....
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In Chapter 4 David is discovered by Uncle Axel chatting away to his other telepath friends. David tells his Uncle Axel his secret - that he is able to communicate in his mind with others like him -...
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David values fairness and friendship, and this makes him a good narrator because it is different from his society’s values of conformity and order. David is an appropriate narrator because his...
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The main reason the strict religious code was able to survive is that anyone who did not follow it was expelled. The church controls everything in Waknuk. They determine what is “God’s...
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I remember studying this book in school myself and thinking that this woman was very arrogant. You might want to analyse the series of sermons that she gives the children regarding evolution and...
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If I had to pick one, single theme that I feel is most prevalent in The Chrysalids, I would say that the theme of discrimination is most apparent. The discrimination that the novel contains though...