TITLE: JOURNEY OF LIFE WITH ADVERSITIES
Throughout history, mankind has made many different types of journeys. These journeys experienced in life have taught people to cope with difficulties whilst seeking to reach an ultimate destination. Inner journeys such as self-discovery are experienced throughout a person’s life; physical journeys are also experienced, allowing the traveller to have new perspectives on the way they view the world, and allowing the person to benefit from obstacles and challenges by learning ways in which to handle them. Through the use of many literary and visual techniques, the journey of life is travelled regardless of the hardships faced throughout it. The Chrysalids (TC) a novel written by John Wyndham and …show more content…
The Chrysalids, is a novel that explores the difference in worldview by physical journeys, which is experienced throughout the protagonist David Strorm. David believed viewed the world he lived in to be very perfect and natural whilst it was very far from that, he believed his world to be utopian, when his world was actually dystopian. When his mother Emily Strorm had rejected Aunt Harriet’s idea of swapping their babies so Aunt Harriet could get the normality certificate for her child. Emily asks David’s father Joseph Strorm to take Aunt Harriet out of their house, David is watching this with pure shock. His mother didn’t help her own, blood related sister because she thought that it was going to be like sinning, the words that Aunt Harriet had spoken before she had left the Strorm house was stuck in the back of David’s mind throughout the novel. “I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body.... And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken...
Throughout history, mankind has made many different types of journeys. These journeys experienced in life have taught people to cope with difficulties whilst seeking to reach an ultimate destination. Inner journeys such as self-discovery are experienced throughout a person’s life; physical journeys are also experienced, allowing the traveller to have new perspectives on the way they view the world, and allowing the person to benefit from obstacles and challenges by learning ways in which to handle them. Through the use of many literary and visual techniques, the journey of life is travelled regardless of the hardships faced throughout it. The Chrysalids (TC) a novel written by John Wyndham and …show more content…
The Chrysalids, is a novel that explores the difference in worldview by physical journeys, which is experienced throughout the protagonist David Strorm. David believed viewed the world he lived in to be very perfect and natural whilst it was very far from that, he believed his world to be utopian, when his world was actually dystopian. When his mother Emily Strorm had rejected Aunt Harriet’s idea of swapping their babies so Aunt Harriet could get the normality certificate for her child. Emily asks David’s father Joseph Strorm to take Aunt Harriet out of their house, David is watching this with pure shock. His mother didn’t help her own, blood related sister because she thought that it was going to be like sinning, the words that Aunt Harriet had spoken before she had left the Strorm house was stuck in the back of David’s mind throughout the novel. “I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body.... And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken...