The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids
I have read and seen many good things in my life such as standing up to bullies and helping the poor. I have also seen bad things like people being discriminated for the colour of their skin or if they have something special about them. In John Wyndhams the Chrysalids its themes have similarities with the themes that I have seen in my life or what I’ve read about in past history.
The main theme of the Chrysalids is the blind acceptance of traditions strict social conformity leads to the persecution and destruction of fellow human beings. What this means is that the community of Waknuk tries their best to strictly apply the word of god. As a result anyone that has something special with them such as an extra limb, the community punishes them for it and sends them away to the fringes where the rest of the ‘deviations’ go. An example of this is when Sophie escapes to live a free life in the fringes because she has an extra limb, if she didn’t escape she would have been punished or killed by the community. This main theme in the Chrysalids relates to the Holocaust. The reason why I believe this is because I learned that Hitler and all of the NAZIs thought the Jews were a weak race of people and that they needed to be eliminated from the world, just like Waknuk thought the deviations were a disgrace to mankind and had to be eliminated. Hitler then sent all the Jews to concentration camps where they were worked until death. This relates to the fringes. Many Jews tried to escape to safer countries to avoid the punishment of the Nazis. This is how I related the theme in the Chrysalids to something I have learned that happened in our history.
The Rwanda genocide, which took place from the 1990s to the early 2000s is another event which I believe relates to the main theme of the Chrysalids. The Rwanda genocide was a civil war that was based upon the Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority. The Hutu majority believed that they were the superior group and decided
I have read and seen many good things in my life such as standing up to bullies and helping the poor. I have also seen bad things like people being discriminated for the colour of their skin or if they have something special about them. In John Wyndhams the Chrysalids its themes have similarities with the themes that I have seen in my life or what I’ve read about in past history.
The main theme of the Chrysalids is the blind acceptance of traditions strict social conformity leads to the persecution and destruction of fellow human beings. What this means is that the community of Waknuk tries their best to strictly apply the word of god. As a result anyone that has something special with them such as an extra limb, the community punishes them for it and sends them away to the fringes where the rest of the ‘deviations’ go. An example of this is when Sophie escapes to live a free life in the fringes because she has an extra limb, if she didn’t escape she would have been punished or killed by the community. This main theme in the Chrysalids relates to the Holocaust. The reason why I believe this is because I learned that Hitler and all of the NAZIs thought the Jews were a weak race of people and that they needed to be eliminated from the world, just like Waknuk thought the deviations were a disgrace to mankind and had to be eliminated. Hitler then sent all the Jews to concentration camps where they were worked until death. This relates to the fringes. Many Jews tried to escape to safer countries to avoid the punishment of the Nazis. This is how I related the theme in the Chrysalids to something I have learned that happened in our history.
The Rwanda genocide, which took place from the 1990s to the early 2000s is another event which I believe relates to the main theme of the Chrysalids. The Rwanda genocide was a civil war that was based upon the Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority. The Hutu majority believed that they were the superior group and decided