The Chrysalides

The Chrysalids Essay-Rough During the course of the novel The Chrysalids we learned and traveled into the minds of some of the characters. All of the characters had their strengths (as well as weaknesses) but one character in particular seemed to keep her cool and lead her group of friends with a power known as ESP (extra sensory perception) away from a place known as Waknuk where they would be hunted and killed weren't it for the fact that they all looked like regular human beings. The name of the girl I speak of is Rosalind. She plays a very big part in the story even though most people don't pay much attention to the things she does, she in essence keeps the group together and keeps them alive because she is a determined, resourceful and self-reliant young woman. To start let's look at some of the characteristics that make Rosalind who she is. A large part of her personality revolves around her determination in everything she does in life. (this includes her love life, her motherly attitude, the safety of the group etc.) Let's start with her love life. In the early stages after David and Sophie are separated because her deviation is discovered we find out that Rosalind and David start to like each other, we find this out more through David then Rosalind as David is mainly the one "speaking" in the novel and we know that they like each other because things like "She was handsome, with a face you could not help watching; she was attractive, too, in the way she moved and carried herself," (93) and "I loved the bronze-gold hair that felt like heavy silk in one's hand"(p. 149) It is also stated in the book that they would

sometimes go into the fields to meet with each other and keep a romantic relationship but they could not do so as often as they would have wanted to because their father's did not quite like each other "The feud between our families which had first come into the open over the matter of the great-horses had now been established for