Chrysalids
Imagine living in a place where there seemed to be a sense of hate in the eyes of everyone, except David Strorm. This place was called Waknuk. Waknuk was a place where anything out of the "norm" was wrong and sinful and could even end in a consequence as serious as death. Life was good for those who believed and practised the Waknuk religion following the definition of man which was heard every Sunday of their lives: "‘And God created man in His own image. And God decreed that man should have one body, one head, two arms and two legs: that each arm should be jointed in two places and end in one hand: that each hand should have four fingers and one thumb: that each finger should bear a flat finger-nail...' And so on until: ‘Then God created woman, also, and in the same image, but with these differences, according to her nature: her voice should be of higher pitch than man's: she should grow no beard: she should have two breasts' And so on again." (page 10-11) Those who did not believe in the Waknuk religion found life to be hard and unfair. Throughout David's life in Waknuk, he was faced with many tools of hate such as prejudice, pride and deception. David painfully learned that prejudice causes individuals to be isolated from each
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Approximate Word count = 1300
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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