The Chrysalids Essay Essay

The Chrysalids Essay

“John Wyndham has given us a good story with The Chrysalids but he has given us much to think about.”
In the novel ‘The Chrysalids’ there are many important issues that John Wyndham has brought up including child and sexual abuse, racism and discrimination.
The book is set after a nuclear holocaust, where people live on farms, get around in horse and carts, and there is no such thing as school. There is a lot of discrimination in this novel, but the main focus is Sophie Wender, who is a 10 year old girl that lives with her parents on a farm just outside Waknuk. Sophie looked like an ordinary girl until David (main character) finds out Sophie’s secret, by accident. “Clearly, there



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This novel also has child abuse in it, like when David’s Father beat him for not telling anyone that Sophie was different. David didn’t want to tell anyone that Sophie was different because she was his friend. There is also racism in this novel, like how Sophie and her family were treated unfairly because of the fact she had one extra toe and the village considered this unhuman.

John Wyndham has also written about sexual abuse. When David finds Sophie at the end of the book she talks about how she is in love with David’s long lost uncle, also known as the spider man… “ If she were to give him children, he wouldn’t want me any more” “Are you in love with him – with this

Some topics in this essay:
Rosalind Sophie, John Wyndham, Waknuk Sophie, David Sophie, Sophie David, THOU MUTANT”Pg, Alan Ervin, , Sophie Wender, God…” Pg, sexual abuse, discriminate people, john wyndham, child sexual, sophie's secret, child sexual abuse, real life,

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