The Chrysalids Comparison Uncle Axel And
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The Chrysalids Comparison
Uncle Axel and Joseph Strorm, very contrasting characters in the novel, are compared by their personalities and their relationship with David Strorm.
Joseph Strorm is a very dogmatic and detached man in the way he acts towards his son,
David, and others in the town of Waknuk. In the novel, Joseph appears to be a very strict man who has no compassion and no positive influence on David’s life. In chapter three, David injuries his hand with a splinter and he says that if he had a third arm he could manage fine. His father, revolted, said “You blasphemed boy. Pray, you wretched boy for a forgiveness you do not deserve.”(27) This shows how uncompassionate Joseph is, because instead of helping his son when he was hurt and bleeding, he scolded David for what he had said and sent him away in disgust and anger. Because of Joseph’s believes that God was punishing humanity with mutations, he is very radical on his views, to the point that even an irreverent comment made by his son can make him to overreact. He believed that his son committed a major sin, because for someone who was blessed to be born in the 'Image of God’, wanting a deviational body was beyond acceptance and understanding. Joseph is critical and radical in his views and even the smallest
“imperfection"such as a birth mark, is a reason for destruction as he believed it is an aberration.
Anything that he considers to be a deviation, even animals and plants, cannot live because it is believed to be the work of the Devil. He has very strict views and will not compromise in any circumstance, even when it related to a healthy but overgrown animal or when it relates to family member. For instance, when Aunt Harriet shows up at their doorsteps with a baby, Joseph says,
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“Shame on you woman! Go home in humility… then do your penances that you may be cleansed. Not only have you blasphemed by producing a false image, but in your arrogance you have set yourself against the
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The Chrysalids Comparison
Uncle Axel and Joseph Strorm, very contrasting characters in the novel, are compared by their personalities and their relationship with David Strorm.
Joseph Strorm is a very dogmatic and detached man in the way he acts towards his son,
David, and others in the town of Waknuk. In the novel, Joseph appears to be a very strict man who has no compassion and no positive influence on David’s life. In chapter three, David injuries his hand with a splinter and he says that if he had a third arm he could manage fine. His father, revolted, said “You blasphemed boy. Pray, you wretched boy for a forgiveness you do not deserve.”(27) This shows how uncompassionate Joseph is, because instead of helping his son when he was hurt and bleeding, he scolded David for what he had said and sent him away in disgust and anger. Because of Joseph’s believes that God was punishing humanity with mutations, he is very radical on his views, to the point that even an irreverent comment made by his son can make him to overreact. He believed that his son committed a major sin, because for someone who was blessed to be born in the 'Image of God’, wanting a deviational body was beyond acceptance and understanding. Joseph is critical and radical in his views and even the smallest
“imperfection"such as a birth mark, is a reason for destruction as he believed it is an aberration.
Anything that he considers to be a deviation, even animals and plants, cannot live because it is believed to be the work of the Devil. He has very strict views and will not compromise in any circumstance, even when it related to a healthy but overgrown animal or when it relates to family member. For instance, when Aunt Harriet shows up at their doorsteps with a baby, Joseph says,
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“Shame on you woman! Go home in humility… then do your penances that you may be cleansed. Not only have you blasphemed by producing a false image, but in your arrogance you have set yourself against the