Change In The Chrysalids

(Resisting/Not changing) change according to the circumstances/environment will cause an earlier death. In John Wydham's, The Chrysalids, there are many deaths due to the reluctance to change. Joseph Strorm needs to change in order to maintain his and the Waknuk community's survival. The Sealand Woman will later have to adapt once a new super power dominates her and Sealanders community. Change is necessary for one's to stay alive.
Waknuk Community is destroyed because of their own rigidness. Joseph Strorm and the Waknuk Community follow the ways of the Old People. They believe they are the true image of God and that none of the deviations are formed by God. (superior) "... ‘And any creature that shall seem to be human, but is not formed
The Devil is the father of Deviation..." (13) (18) Joseph and the Waknuk community is blindly following the Old Race and they do not realize that the Old Race caused?? destruction upon themselves. Now, the Waknuk community is following the Old Race and the Waknuk community is making the same mistakes the Old Race has, only to end up destroying themselves. – have to have proof for the destruction of the old race? Also, the Waknuk Community destroys all deviations even if they are of their benefits, especially Joseph Strorm. "As the sun rose we would sing a hymn while my father ceremonially slaughtered the two headed calf, four-legged chicken, or whatever other kind of Offense it happened to be. ... ‘I don't believe it,' my father told him. ‘God never made horses the size of these. The Government can't have approved them.'" (19) (36) The Waknuk community does not realize that by not using the great-horses or other offences that could benefit them,
"She says we ought to be sorry for them because, however old they grow, they'll never be able to understand one another much better. They'll have to be one-at-a-times always, never think-togethers." (145-146) The Sealand woman and her community have almost the same attitude as the Waknuk community in terms of thinking that they are superior to the other races. Waknuk's attitude only results in wreckage if they do not change. In addition, both the Sealand community and the Waknuk community are in the same path in destroying someone who is not considered the true image in their point of view. " ‘Yes,' the Sealand woman told her simply. ‘They're all dead.' " (195) The Sealand community destroys the fringe people and the Waknuk people for their survival. Adapting to the environment they are in would be the best solution. The Sealand woman and the community believe that extermination is part of saving one's specie from another. "In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction." (196) The Sealand community will do anything to save their race but do not understand that they can change and accept the other race for their survival; adjustment is very vital for their existence. Clearly, the Sealand community will have to make sure they adapt if another superior race dominates