Waknuk Society
Ever wondered what it would feel like to have an extra toe. In the novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, it is a novel about a deviational boy named David that can talk to people him through telepathically transmitted thought shapes. He lives in a post-apocalyptic society called Waknuk. Soon he meets a deviational girl named Sophie who has 6 toes. He promises to keep her extra toe a secret. Everything is well, until a boy named Alan finds out their secret. When they feel that their secret can no longer be a secret, they plan to send Sophie to the fringes. Everything is fine until the arrival of his little sister Petra. David finds out that Petra can also make thing picture, only stronger than David. When Petra’s think pictures …show more content…
So in this manner in chapter Aunt Harriet comes to David’s house to borrow Petra for her baby’s inspection, because her baby is deviational. Joseph Storm does not let her take Petra. Upset she went and jumped into a lake and died. Also in chapter 6 it reads “Well, every part of the definition is as important as any other; and if a child doesn’t come within it, then it isn’t human, and that means it doesn’t have as soul. It is not in the image of God, it is an imitation, and in the imitations there is always some mistake. Only God produces perfection, so although deviations may look like us in many ways, they cannot be really human. They are something quite different.” This means that everyone in the Waknuk society has to be the same, which kills everyone’s individuality. So in this manner strict social conformity led to the destruction of human …show more content…
Anyone that is found guilty against god is banished to the fringes. One of these deviants was Joseph storms brother, who was sent to the fringes because he had abnormally long arms. This made him jealous of his brother and led him to kill joseph in chapter 16 Also, in chapter 5 David was persecuted and then he ran away to the fringes, in result the Waknuk people tortured sally and Catherine killing them both. In this manner aunt Harriet was persecuted by joseph storm which upset her and she jumped into a river. So in this way throughout the book people are persecuted and
Ever wondered what it would feel like to have an extra toe. In the novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, it is a novel about a deviational boy named David that can talk to people him through telepathically transmitted thought shapes. He lives in a post-apocalyptic society called Waknuk. Soon he meets a deviational girl named Sophie who has 6 toes. He promises to keep her extra toe a secret. Everything is well, until a boy named Alan finds out their secret. When they feel that their secret can no longer be a secret, they plan to send Sophie to the fringes. Everything is fine until the arrival of his little sister Petra. David finds out that Petra can also make thing picture, only stronger than David. When Petra’s think pictures …show more content…
So in this manner in chapter Aunt Harriet comes to David’s house to borrow Petra for her baby’s inspection, because her baby is deviational. Joseph Storm does not let her take Petra. Upset she went and jumped into a lake and died. Also in chapter 6 it reads “Well, every part of the definition is as important as any other; and if a child doesn’t come within it, then it isn’t human, and that means it doesn’t have as soul. It is not in the image of God, it is an imitation, and in the imitations there is always some mistake. Only God produces perfection, so although deviations may look like us in many ways, they cannot be really human. They are something quite different.” This means that everyone in the Waknuk society has to be the same, which kills everyone’s individuality. So in this manner strict social conformity led to the destruction of human …show more content…
Anyone that is found guilty against god is banished to the fringes. One of these deviants was Joseph storms brother, who was sent to the fringes because he had abnormally long arms. This made him jealous of his brother and led him to kill joseph in chapter 16 Also, in chapter 5 David was persecuted and then he ran away to the fringes, in result the Waknuk people tortured sally and Catherine killing them both. In this manner aunt Harriet was persecuted by joseph storm which upset her and she jumped into a river. So in this way throughout the book people are persecuted and