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What are human deviations called? |
Blasphemy |
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How does Joseph strorm react to deviations |
He doesn't like them; burns the crops and kills the animals |
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What is wild country? |
Was a place where the chances of breeding true was less than 50%; after Waknuk |
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What are the Fringes? |
Was a mysterious place where "the devil struts his wide estate and laws of God are mocked"; blasphemies are sent there; after wild country |
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What are the badlands? |
Outside of the Fringes. These lands are still dangerously radioactive, and it is believed that anyone who sets foot there will die. |
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Give a description of uncle axel |
1. Married to David's aunt, Elizabeth 2. He was a sailor; tall with tanned skin 3. His leg was injured |
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Describe David's schooling |
Half a dozen students being taught to read and write and do some sums by several old women |
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What is significant about the steam engines |
Considered advanced and unusual technology for waknuk |
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Who are the old people |
The people who lived before tribulation |
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Why does John wender regard David with suspicion |
Because he was the son of Joseph strorm |
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What info does uncle axel discover about David |
He finds David talking to himself and he discovers that David and Rosalind are telepathic |
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What does David become aware of during his convo with uncle axel |
Aware of the threat he lives under. He must promise to never tell anyone about his telepathic ability |
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What does David notice about one of the captured fringed leaders |
He looks exactly like his father except with long legs and arms; he is Joseph's brother |
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What was David's reaction to seeing spider man |
"He stood staring" "all the colour drained away and his face turned blotchy grey" |
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Why does Angus want the great horses |
For farming and work |
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Describe the size of the horse |
26 hands at the shoulder, could do work of 2-3 normal horses for less than double the feed |
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Where is waknuk located |
Labrador |
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What was the author and title of the book that survived tribulation |
Nicholson's repentances |
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What other books survived from the time of the old people |
The bible |
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What are ethics |
Ethics were thaught by an old man on sunday afternoons. Ethics are why you should and shouldn't do things |
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Who sees the different footprint on the rock? |
Alan ervin |
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Why does Sophie hit alan |
Alan was beating up David |
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What do the wenders decide to do |
They decide to take Sophie and go away |
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How does ms.wender feel about david |
She wants to take David with her, but she can't because he would put Sophie in more danger |
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What did ms.wender do that was unfamiliar to david |
She hugged him him closely in a way his own mother never did |
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What does ms.wender ask David to do |
To stay in the house overnight to give them some time to get away |
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How does the inspector attempt to help david |
By telling David's father not to use his whip |
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How does Joseph persuade David to tell where Sophie is |
By using another whip or stick on David's back |
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Of what does David attempt to convince the other telepaths |
That a person with a small deviation wasn't monstrosity |
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What does the inspector bring with him |
A bag of sweets to persuade David in the convo |
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How are the wenders found |
They were picked up by patrol; unrelated to the info David gave |
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What are uncle axels views about running away |
He advises David not to run away because be knew he won't live |
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According to uncle axel, why do people get become angry at new ideas |
Because they are afraid that what happened to them (nuclear bomb) would happen again |
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What do sailors say about sailing to the east |
Sailing to the east is no good cuz either the sea goes on forever or comes to a sudden end and you sail over the edge |
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Describe some of the strange things sailors have seen |
Distorted plant life, strange "nameless" animals, jungle of deviations |
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Describe the area where nothing grows |
Eastern seaboard area |
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What probably has caused the damage the sailor's have seen |
Nuclear weapons and bombs |
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In real life, what see are the sailor's referring to |
Atlantic Ocean |
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What does uncle axel say about the "true image" |
"Nobody knows what the true image is, the definition comes from one book,nicholson's repentances |
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What does uncle axel learn from David |
There are 8 people that can connect telepathically with David. There was 9 but one stopped suddenly |
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Why is no mention made of Petras birth |
Until the inspector issues a certificate of normalcy |
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What cause is there for concern with regards Petras inspection |
2 previous births by David's mom have been unacknowledged |
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What does Harriet visit David's mom |
She wants to switch her new born baby with Petra, to get a normalcy certificate |
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How does David's mother respond to harriets request |
She refuses and calls her baby a monster |
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What does Harriet do as a result |
Likely commits sucide by drowning herself in the river |
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About what does David begin to worry as he talks to uncle axel |
What they've done to Sophie |
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Quote the lines that contain uncle axels advice to david |
"We've got to belive that God is sane Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that |
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What are wyndhams views? |
To not focus on the past and what happened in the past. Be yourself and act for the world that exists not the past |
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Who are the other members of David's special group |
Walter Brent, which got killed by a falling tree. Rosalind, micheal, Sally and Katherine, mark Anne and racheal (sisters) |
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What does uncle axel say makes a man |
"What makes a man is mind" |
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of education according to david |
Advanyage: it helps him understand things more clearly Disadvantages: he had to keep is Knowledge to himself and restrain himself from correcting the elders |
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What is the first hint that Petra is not ordinary |
"I didn't know" David said to Rosalind "I have no idea she was one of us" |
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How are Petras communications different from the others |
None of them could command like that. She's something much more than they are |
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About what does David dream this time |
He dreams of Petra, not the calf or Sophie that his father is Going to kill |
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What does olc Jacob advice doing with any deviation |
Burning them as they are |
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Why does old Jacob belive that deviations are increasing in number |
Because people are just being fined for concealment. He wants harsher treatment for deviations |
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Give 2 reasons why Annes marriage is frightening to everyone else |
1. She married a norm 2. They were afraid that she would accidentally tell Alan about the rest of the group |
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How do the rest of the group feel about marriage to a norm |
"It'd be like tying yourself for a life to a criple" |
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Why is uncle axel worried about Anne being in love with a norm |
He's worried that she would be a threat to the rest of the group |
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How does uncle axel suggest they deal with anne |
He suggests murdering her |
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Why can David and Rosalind not see each other openly |
Because the strorm family and the Morton family don't like each other |
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What happens to Alan? Anne? |
Alan was shot in the neck with an arrow and Anne hanged herself |
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What fortunate accident regarding Annes letter to Alan prevents the group from being exposed |
Racheal takes away the letter Anne wrote it denounced all the others and accused them of murdering Alan. Racheal burned the letter after reading it |
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What 2 forbidden things does Petra do |
1. Rode her pony off the Strom land 2. She went exploring in the woods |
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Why is the strength of Petras call dangerous to the group |
The intensity prevents all the others to communicate |
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What causes Petra to call for help |
Her pony was attacked by a deviations creature |
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How does David greet the stranger |
Asks to see his identity Tag to prove that he isn't an outlaw |
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Who killed the deviation creator that attacked Petras pony |
Rosalind |
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What is the strangers name |
Jerome skinner |
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What makes the man suspicious of the group |
He suspects they r spies from the Fringes he also didn't hear any screaming as the others claim they did |
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What does the group decide they cannot do |
They cannot all respond to Petra and meet again in the same place at the same time |
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How does David determine that Petra can revive thaught shapes |
By playing the "think things" game |
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What new info does Petra give the group |
She detects " others" that are very far away |
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Who is joe darley? Why is he asking questions |
He's an informant of the inspector |
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What did Anne do before she died that endangerd the group |
She told Alan about all of them |
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What did uncle axel do as a result |
He shot Alan-he saw the way Alan looked at them in church and he knew that he knew |
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What other info is provided about banishment to the Fringes |
People are sterilized before being sent to the Fringes; so they won't have more mutant babies |
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What do David and the group decide to do to Petra If necessary |
Hide her away or kill her |
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What causes the groups fight |
Sally and Katherine got taken away |
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Who is best planned for the escape |
Rosalind |
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What has Rosalind brought with her? How is this symbolically important? |
The 2 great horses |
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Who assists Rosalind in her escape? |
Her mom |
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With Whom Are rosailand, Petra And David communicating for info |
Micheal (he warns David about the posses being sent after him |
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Who do we know about the guns used in waknuk |
Loud, heavy, useless if you run out of gunpowder and slow the reload |
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What does rosailand do that she finds to be traumatic |
She kills a man who had found their trail |
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What is happening to Sally and Katherine |
They are being tortured |
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About what are the authorities most upset about regarding the group |
That nothing physically shows |
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What advantage do the telepaths have over normal human |
They can secretly plan |
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What does Petra mention for the second time |
The far away lady making "think shapes" |
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From where are the thaught shapes coming |
Sealand- new Zealand |
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Why does David know about this land |
It's the same place that he would dream about as a child |
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What technique does wydham use to end the chapter |
He introduces a new problem to make the reader eager to read more |
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What area have the 3 travellers reached |
Wold county |
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Who or what is most important right now? Why? |
Petra;they are supposed to keep her safe |
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What had happened to Sally and Katherine |
They both got tortured and they were unconscious for so long that they thaught they died |
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David explains to Petra why people hurt other people. Quote the lines? |
"The more stupid they are the more like everyone else they think ought to be. Once they becaome afraid they become cruel and want to hurt people that are different |
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What does Petra tell David about Sealand |
Everyone there can make think pictures- and nobody wants to hurt anybody for doing it |
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What happens to david at the end of the chapter |
He has a Fringes person jump on him from a tree |
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Explain the difference between external rosailand and the real one |
External Rosailand is practical and capable And inner rosailand was gentle and soft |
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Who has captured the group |
The Fringes people |
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Where do the Fringes people think the devil dwells |
In waknuk |
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What does the Fringes man mean by saying "life is change" |
Change is central to life and it's arragant to try and stop it |
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What does the Fringes man mean by " they try to strangle the life out of life" |
Their solution to life is death |
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Who are the new people |
The Sealand people |
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Why do Sealanders belive they are superior to the old people |
They think the old people were ingenious half humans |
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How does the spider man introduce himself to david |
He asks David if he remembers him. He explains that his certificate was revoked when he was 3 or 4 years old |
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What does spider man intend to do with rosailand |
Marry her and have children |
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Why did David say that Sophie's clothes were "almost indecent" |
Because there was no protective cross stitched to her dress |
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What is the relationship between Gordon and Sophie |
Gordon is fond of Sophie and she appears to be in love with him |
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Describe Sophie's cave |
Entrance had a skin curtain; water dripped from the roof into a bucktes; fire hallow with a draft hole; mattes of branches and skins; utensils bowls, bow and arrow |
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Who is the last group member still communicating with them |
Micheal |
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What 2 groups are soon coming to the Fringes area to be with David's group |
Micheals group The Sealand people |
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What did Sophie mean when she told David "this is the Fringes" |
She is reminding David that the ways things are handled in waknuk are not the ways things are handled in the Fringes |
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How did Sophie free the girls |
She murderd the albino man guarding rosailand and Petra |
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Why did Sophie become angry with rosailand |
Because she wants spider man and she's jealous of rosailands beauty and because she can have children and Sophie can't |
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Who comforted Sophie |
Petra |
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Where is micheal |
With the posse perusing david Petra and rosailand |
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Where is racheal |
Still in waknuk |
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What is a "behind think" |
Thaught not ment for other people ( Petra can sense racheals behind thinks) |
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Petra asks micheal who is perusing her and David |
Her father |
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Quote the lines that explain David's conflicted feelings about his father |
"Am I supposed to forgive him? Or try and kill him? |
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What does the Sealand women say about the future of waknuk and others like it |
"They have become history without being aware of it" |
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What idea does the Sealand women express that repeats the ones of the Fringes man in chapter 14 |
"If it doesn't adapt, it will be taken away" |
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For whom was spider man looking? For what reason? |
Joseph strorm. To shoot an arrow and kill him |
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How were you to escape the power of the strands coming from the ship |
Lie down, stay calm, and don't move until someone comes rescues you-- were Sealand women's advice to micheal |
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How did Sealand lady get rid of the deadly filaments |
By using a spray from a metal bottle |
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Describe the Sealand women |
Large eyes, gold lashes, very light cream coloured face, wide mouth,short hair, flawless looking |
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What "holy" imagery is associated with the Sealand women |
Her beautiful head looked as though it was framed with a halo |
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What bad news does the seland women give |
They didn't have enough fuel to go get racheal form waknuk |
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The Sealanders consider themselves to be the "lords of life". What did she say will eventually happen even to them |
A superior variant will arise to extinguish the Sealand people too |
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What do micheal and racheal decide to do |
Micheal will go get racheal in 4 days; then they will try to get to Sealand on their own together |
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Give a few details about the city in Sealand the travellers reach |
Bright sun, blue sky's, bay with small boats, white houses, hills, parks and gardens |
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What is the "buzzing" the travellers hear as they arrive |
The tealpathic energy of all the other Sealand people |
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Would you describe the ending of this book as hopeful, hopeless or something in between |
Hopeful, because they have a positive optimistic future of acceptance, not a fear of regection |
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Explain briefly why the title is the chrysalids |
When I think of the title,I think of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. A caterpillar has a shell on it and not a lot of freedom that's the same thing as when David and his group were still in waknuk, they had no freedom and they weren't accepted. But when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, that's when it gains all its happiness and freedom, and that's also the same thing as when David and his group went to Sealand. |
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Who killed Jerome skinner |
Rosailand |
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What does Sophie's toe symolise? |
It can be a symbol of the atomic bomb effect. She has 6 toes and this is because of radiation form the atomic bomb. Sophie also acts as a catalyst; she sets the story in motion. |
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What do the sayings on the wall symbolise |
"Watch thou for the mutant" " only the image of God is man" I think these show the intensity of their religion views. Also,having them on the walls also teach children that deviations are wrong. The sayings on the wall are symbols of how language can oppress people |
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How is David's dream a symbol |
David's city dream is a symbol of where David might be thinking of running away, as well as another symbol that makes him different from other "normal" people. David's other dreams involving the 2 headed calf and Sophie, symbolizes what could happen to her if people found out about her extra toes. |
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What Is the main theme of the story |
The main them is that we should embrace change instead of fearing it. |
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Intolerance of deviation |
Intolerance towards deviations is show through the extreme reaction of Joseph strorm. The theme deviation is a constant theme that runs in the whole story. It is the main focus of the book. Attitudes towards these deviations is an important factor in deciding how the reader will view them. |
Joseph strorm |
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What is the setting of the story |
Post apocalyptic; after a nuclear war in North America |
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Prejudice towards deviation |
The people of waknuk belive that deviants are an abomination and the work of the devil. Deviants (balshphemy) are cruelly sterilezed and abandoned in the Fringes. |
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Importance of conformity |
Through Joseph strorms harsh treatment to david, we can see how the issue of conformity is to the inhabitants of waknuk. It is manifested in several ways, be it burning of deviant crops, slaughtering of deviant livestock (animals) and spreading awareness on the dangers of mutants |
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