A society is a structured community of people bound together by similarities. The novel The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, is about the struggle of surviving after several hundred years of radiation, due to the nuclear holocaust. What is left of civilization is the three surviving societies, the Waknuks, the Fringes, and the Sealanders. The Waknuks are governed by religious beliefs, and consider anything that is not in the "true image" to be a "blasphemy" to God. The Fringes are all the mutants that were once living at Waknuk but then abolished from Waknuk since they were distinguished between the "norms ". The Sealanders are far away from Waknuk and the Fringes. They are more technologically advanced the rest of the societies and they all posses the ability of thinking-shapes. The three societies, the Waknuks, the Fringes, and the Sealanders have similar and different beliefs on the way they live life.

The Waknuk society was originated by Elias Strorm. Elias Strorm had two boys, Joseph and Gordon. Gordon was the older one, and h

God's little game of patience I reckon it is, but He certainly takes His time over it. God? I said doubtfully. They've always taught us that it's the Devil that rules in the Fringes (pg. 153)

The Waknuks does not accept any changes, and they plan go back to the Old People before there was tribulation. "In order to do this they kill anything that is new and different." They can never win since there will be radiation for many more years.

The three societies, the Waknuks, the Fringes, and the Sealanders have similar and different beliefs on the way they live life. The Waknuks are trying to survive in a world where differences are not tolerated. The Waknuks is afraid of change, they murder and abolish people that are not in the "true image," and use religion as a way to ignore people's conscience. The Fringes accept changes and want to pursuit it. Unlike Waknuks the Sealanders don't want to be like the Old People, but more likely the New People. The Sealanders will be the one's that will create the new world with the help if Petra. Hopefully people who read this book will remember that this could be the horrifying vision of the future, and maybe resolve future conflicts.

The reason Gordon was abandoned by his family was because the Waknuks believe that God made everyone in his own image and if you were not in the "true image" you were consider to be created by the Devil. "The Devil sends

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