Characters and Discrimination

Intro:

The chrysalids is a sci-fi story about a struggling human civilization left behind after some sort of nuclear war. This community is plagued with genetic mutation, people who are considered a mutant would be persecuted and killed. The main character David is deviated and possesses a telepathic ability which causes the main conflict in the story. The story has three significant characters that grow in the plot and approach a similar central theme of Blasphemies and Discrimination. The three characters are Joseph Storm , Aunt Harriet, Sophie Wender .

Subtopic 1:

Joseph Strorm:

• David's father

• leading figure in Waknuk.

• character in the novel that has the greatest disliking toward Blasphemies

• strong believer in God and his life is based around his religion "The Norm is the Image of God." (p.27)

• very strict: "I'll deal with this. The boy's is lying. Go to your room." (p.51)

• very inhumane to anyone dealing with diviation

• when aunt harriet visits to show her deviated child, he is very cruel to her (p.71)

• showed no sympathy to aunt harriet

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Subtopic 2:

Aunt Harriet:

• Sister of David’s mother

• She goes to seek help about her deviated child but mrs. Strorm disagrees and says "Nothing much! You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!" (p.70)

• Aunt Harriet is very loving, strong

• she fights for what she thinks is the right thing: "I shall pray God to send into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate." (p.73)

• she is the proof of what happens to people who have a deviation or are trying to protect someone with a deviation. As indicated by the book, “Aunt Harriet's body has been found in a river, no one mentioned a baby…." (p.74) She is a very will hearted woman who is one of the very few people in this time that has the will to speak her mind.

Stopic3:

Sophie Wender:

• another female fighter in the book

• very good...