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The Chrysalids Essay Research Paper Some people

The Chrysalids Essay, Research Paper


Some people dream about having an ability to communicate through mental


telepathy. Some even claimed to have this ability but it played an


important role in the novel The Chrysalids. The author created an


interesting environment. There was no communication and the only people


who could communicate between each other were the ones that had the power


of telepathy. Because in some areas the land was so dangerous because of


the radiation that people were cut of from another and left on a small


piece of land. They could not communicate. Though-shapes not only


developed the plot of the story but greatly affected the lives of some


characters and might affect Waknuk.


We all know that people in Waknuk were very superstitious but did it


actually help the plot to develop? On page 91 through 103 finally and


idea gets out about some people being able to communicate through


thought-shapes. When Katherine and Sally got caught and tortured they


finally tell some of the names to the inspector. This forces David,


Rosalind and Petra to runaway to the fringes, and they established some


kind of contact with a woman from Sealant (Zealand, On page 134). The help


that the sealant woman promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot


is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He


discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them


and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman


rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city


like the one in David’s dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers


that such a city really exists but most of all through Petra they establish


contact with a more civilized people than they are. Because of the


conflicts in the story it leads the main characters to discover the sealant


city.


Telepathy not only affects the plot of the story but also the main


characters in the novel. The most obvious thing is that David, Rosalind


and Petra are saved. They have a c

hance to learn, experience new things


they never saw or heard before. Mike and Rachel stays behind but hopes to


come to the big city were things are different. Some characters died in


the final chapter when the helicopter makes a landing killing everything


that moves around it. The characters that died where: the spiderman


(Gordon), David’s father, Sophie and all the people from the fringes and


Waknuk that where near the helicopter.


Waknuk might be affected by the discovery of the sealant city because


the reader finds out (in the final chapter) that the sealant city is very


developed and people are better educated. They are also civilized and


understand that Waknuk is a village cut off from the surroundings because


of the radiation. If Waknuk will be helped as predicted it may become a


big, civilized city like Zealand. The natives in Waknuk will stop thinking


that Tribulation was sent by God and that all deviations are devil’s


creation. They might understand that the radiation might be the remaining


of a nuclear bomb or nuclear war. The sealant people might help Waknuk in


education and they themselves may build the machines like today’s, and grow


more productive crops. The entire thinking and appearance of Waknuk might


change. On the other hand when the radiation will go away after a while


the sealant people might go deeper and deeper into the surrounding land.


Waknuk might be taken over by other cities because it could not and/or


would not know how to compete with the cities. This also might depend on


how are the Zealand people like. If they are so understanding and educated


they will probably help Waknuk to develop, but if the people won’t help


then the `negative point’ could be true.


Many things can affect the plot of a story, the characters or the


surroundings in a story. In this novel these three points were influenced


by mental telepathy. This type of story could be an example how people


were in the past (in the really world). It is an idea what could really


happen if a nuclear war would become a reality.

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