Everyone has something they excel at or enjoy more than other things. Maybe it’s art, history, or very “opinionated” writing. How would you feel if you couldn’t do any of that? Control of Knowledge is a large part of the novel, “The Chrysalids”, which relates to the real world because of religion, education and knowledge, all of which are controlled by a certain group of people in this paperback and today’s society.
Tons of people are very strict and sometimes psychotic when it comes to religion. In Canada we have a choice of what religion we follow, but in numerous countries like North Korea or Iran you are forced to believe in a certain god similar to the people, or you can be stripped of your religious beliefs and told that there are no gods. This is very similar in the book, the people of Labrador all follow the “Waknuk” religion. If you go against things stated in the Waknuk Bible even slightly there will be some serious …show more content…
There are plenty cases of people controlling their children or nations knowledge in a bad way, the one that is most prominent isn’t from the present it is from the past but it is still relevant today, it is the Residential Schools in Canada, which may have started way back, but the last residential school closed in 1996. Most people know what happened with the residential schools and how poorly they were taught and how they were forced to learn a different culture. “The Chrysalids is not entirely like this topic, but it is similar, Children are taught about “Hairy Jack” and “Old Maggie” from the fringes which is used as a threat to make them behave and to tell them what they should think of fringes people, “Be good now, or I'll fetch Old Maggie from the Fringes to you.” They are also taught from home for a majority of their life so their education is
Tons of people are very strict and sometimes psychotic when it comes to religion. In Canada we have a choice of what religion we follow, but in numerous countries like North Korea or Iran you are forced to believe in a certain god similar to the people, or you can be stripped of your religious beliefs and told that there are no gods. This is very similar in the book, the people of Labrador all follow the “Waknuk” religion. If you go against things stated in the Waknuk Bible even slightly there will be some serious …show more content…
There are plenty cases of people controlling their children or nations knowledge in a bad way, the one that is most prominent isn’t from the present it is from the past but it is still relevant today, it is the Residential Schools in Canada, which may have started way back, but the last residential school closed in 1996. Most people know what happened with the residential schools and how poorly they were taught and how they were forced to learn a different culture. “The Chrysalids is not entirely like this topic, but it is similar, Children are taught about “Hairy Jack” and “Old Maggie” from the fringes which is used as a threat to make them behave and to tell them what they should think of fringes people, “Be good now, or I'll fetch Old Maggie from the Fringes to you.” They are also taught from home for a majority of their life so their education is