Waknuk And The Fringes In The Chrysalids By John Wyndham

The ability to flourish becomes difficult, when others’ opinions are focused on rather than one’s own importance. In “Shooting an Elephant” the narrator goes against his own morals and beliefs, to simply be accepted by a group. In his heart, he knows it is wrong to shoot an innocent elephant, yet his desperation to feel included causes him to plummet under pressure. The narrator could have easily avoided shooting the elephant, but something about the need to fit in caused him to go against himself. He was no longer doing what was right for him, rather what others wanted him to do. The loss of individualism causes one to not only go against one’s own morals and belief, it eventually leads and escalates to broader situations. A person becomes sidetracked from accomplishing and achieving personal goals when trying to be included. The narrator faces a similar position as he begins to spend a majority of his time pondering and wondering why he is hated and shunned. There was an inability to focus on anything else because all that focus was on to one specific thought. The constant focus on trying to be accepted, causes one to lose sight of what is really important. Society overpowers individuals, no matter how hard one tries, one will always lose to a majority. Rather than dedicate and waste precious time

During week three’s discussion, I was able to take away more ideas on the theme of the book and I was also able to have a better understanding of the book’s transitions and how the perspectives relate to the plot of the book itself. I personally enjoyed the quote masters and word wizards parts in the discussion because they helped me understand certain words and passages from the book that I didn’t get from before and they also helped me have further knowledge on the book’s meaning. The part that helped me the most with the book would have to be the summary because the summarizer helped me get the general gist of the pages we had to read and

Trask, as mentioned, is an indigenous nationalist professor which establishes her credibility regarding the oppression of colored people. As her essay progresses, her tone of voice becomes more aggressive as she uses words such as “terminated, obliterated and bloody extermination” regarding the oppression of colored people. Trask then shocks the reader by using evidence such as statistics to support her claim. One of her first claims she makes is that native Hawaiians suffer health issues such as ill death and early death because of “peaceful violence”. She informs us about infants younger than one whose death rate is more than twice the overall state death rate average (10). She continues to surprise us by informing us about every age group and their death rates (10). She informs us that the death rate doubles if you fall in the category of the ages of one through thirty years of age (10). Even though she uses a lot of logos by using statistics, she also uses pathos by evoking an emotional response from the reader. This shows the impact peaceful violence has

Some things I learned and hope others have learned from this book is that things are not as they seem and that there is a picture behind the bigger picture. Essentially what I’m trying to say is that even though the colony / the people that they are governed by sees race as a problem and that racial mixing should not be tolerated , this does not mean that everyone there thinks like this , Some of the residents there are actually suffering because them being in

Mrs. Hope said that with their new beliefs it created tension between them, they turned away from the family. For the family it was the Utopia, but the others outside were not ready to be in such place as they say: “The world was not ready for Utopia yet, and those who attempted to found it only got laughed at for their pains.”. Utopia is an ideal place or a visionary system of political or social perfection. With the transcendental movement everyone has to follow a routine. They would all wake up at the same time every day, take baths, eat at the same time, have meaningful conversations, get back to work and finish work the evening came. Within the community there are beliefs so it is not just one person thinking in a different way, but a group of people. It is a transcendental movement because they choose to live and believe in different things than the rest of the world, but within the community they all have to think the same way, someone cannot be self-reliant on his own. From what I understand, the children were allowed to do what they wanted, and members in the community were allowed to express their feeling freely, in other community this not accepted if it is not intellectual or spiritual thinking. People should not express their feelings freely and should speak in a very kind way, one youth did the opposite in Fruitland. He said something like: “Good morning

As a young, black, boy growing up in the Jim Crow South, Richard Wright is expected to act like any typical black-accept the whites as his superiors, learn how to work for the whites instead of receiving a proper education, and put his faith in God that things will turn out alright. In another world, characters in the Interpreter of Maladies, such as, Boori Ma, Bibi Haldar, and other disrespected people are disregarded and ostracized because of their differences from their families and overall community. The society Richard Wright writes about in his autobiography, Black Boy, and the plethora of societies Jhumpa Lahiri portrays in her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, demonstrate how certain figures are alienated for not following the same ways of life they are expected to adhere to, overall, revealing their society’s assumptions and moral values.

The study of individual interactions and how they shape society is fascinating to me. The idea that an everyday conversation between a cashier and a customer (to use the book’s example) can shape the way society works is an interesting new way of viewing the world. It’s very easy to feel like you’re small in this world, and the idea that any conversation you have could make a big-picture difference is eye-opening. S2Q2. Deviance is not necessarily always good or bad.

Many people in the modern day still question and doubt what the true “Image of God” could be. In the novel, The Chrysalids The author john Wyndham points the fact that it has many meanings to that phrase. He connects a parable in the bible to prove what discrimination and prejudice can mean. Wyndham highlights to us in the book that the city of Waknuk doesn’t accept the deviants the way they are different in appearance and traits, since Waknuk refuses to change and adapt themselves because of how oppressed and brainwashed they are. Waknuk does not progress from their thoughts on deviants concluding in discrimination and no evolution throughout their lives.

The rejection of community ultimately restricts individuals from ever expressing their thoughts and pains, to others which is a vital step towards recovery and balance. Without a proper community, man is constricted to his the insecure and unknowing mind of the self. Without the assurance in life that there is a community that offers support, perpetual unrest and pain is sure to

The ability to disassociate themselves from their actions allows the reader to understand the ideology of exceptionalism. The ideology is saturated with an inconsistency that Warren purposely places in his narratives to exemplify the morality of the characters. The isolated spirit of the characters exemplifies various contradictions in the outcome of their lives and in the end the dual views of the world around them brings forth a sense of superiority. The Southern man struggles with a sense of identity and a place within their own community yet the fictitious dominance of their surroundings pacifies the unfulfilled quest for gratification in a chaotic world.

With the mass expansion and popularity of social media, and celebrities, people have become less individual. This is how culture can be observed today, but internally every person is unique, with their own ways of thought and their own opinions. Kate Chopin, the author of The Awakening, creates the character Edna. Edna exibits an outward life that conforms with society,l and an inward life that questions if a “normal” life is worth living. This ideology is is hazardous to anyone who lives it and it must be avoided at all costs. Successful people often do not internalize their thoughts, When thinking of historically successful people the ones remembered are almost always those who outwardly displayed they controversial feelings and made a change. Holding in questions and feeling while outwardly displaying normality is one of the first signs of a mental illness and can lead down a dangerous road.

However, sometimes, people do not always understand each other because they went through different experiences in their own lives. In the text, assuming the author is a speaker, Margaret Laurence, her memories start from her “small prairie town”. This evidenced by her believes that this land is her only first “real knowledge on of this planet”. Laurence frustrated with how people describe her place “as dull, bleak, flat, uninteresting”, because she believes that these people do not understand how it feels like being raised in that town as she does. Laurence wants these people to recognize how this town means a lot to her and respect like they would want their homelands, from their childhoods, to be respected. However, at the end of the text, Laurence begins to realize that not all people have same understood and perceptions as her because not everyone went through same “eyes” as her. This shows that went through different eyes mean they have their own different opinions, even Laurence. Laurence starts to understand that her memories of her past created who she is and how she feels about the land she lives, which is different than other’s memories that affect their perceptions. Similar in my life, I have experiences with people who have different

This has taught me about resilience and that not all people are what you think. There is a strong strain of racism within the Luarin (white) forces, against the Raka (natives). However, throughout the book the Luarin’s views towards the Raka changed somewhat in the way that they were actually seen as human, previously they were seen as ‘Raka dogs’. Aly’s relationships with her mother changed in her absence, as Plath and her father never did.

In the last chapters, the Sealand Lady finally has come to retrieve David and his friends. In my point of view, she appears a little dictatorial. It seems to me that she strongly supports her thought that telepathic people are more superior than people who are not. Although, I support her goal of aiding more people of her quality and giving them a place to live to expand her race. It is very clear that Waknuk is not safe for David, Petra and their because of their unusual customs, I think Zealand would be a safe place for them to live in. In my opinion, Michael’s choice of staying behind with Rachel and finding a way together to get to Zealand is wise. This further illustrates that Michael has good leadership skills because as a leader he think

Being human can mean a lot of things It’s impossible to pinpoint one thing that describes a human and separates us from being an alien. We always think of a human having just the physical aspects of the human body. So we often tend to forget what it actually means to be human. This book The Chrysalis written by John Wyndham explains what it means to be human throughout the book. The main character David finds problems with the society in his home town Waknuk and decides that he wants to run away with his sister Petra and his cousin Rosalind all three of them can mind talk. after a while Petra starts to communicate with a girl in her head from this far away place called Sea-Land. The new quest is to find this so called Sea-Lander. John Wyndham