Chapter 5 & 6

      In these next few chapters, there is so much information and conclusions to draw that I'm afraid my entry today will be really long. In chapter five, David and Sophie go to a river to catch some "shrimp things". Sophie, looking enviously at David, decided to take off her shoes and hop in the river with him. While she was trying to catch some unsuccessfully, she mistakenly put her guard down and a boy named Alan appears. She fleas, but left her footprint on a stone. Sophie is finally found out. And everything goes down from there. The pair, once Alan is unconscious, run to Sophie's home. After telling her parents everything, they leave. David is told to stay in the house till morning, and obeys. When he returns, Alan has told everything to the town, and David is in for it. He was also told to not say anything of the Wender's. Assuming he was beaten by his father, he gave the whole story away.

      In chapter six, David has some frightening dreams about Sophie. In the morning he is interrogated by his father and the inspector. Afterwards he decides he will run away, and goes to Uncle Axel for counsel. Uncle Axel, in return gives David a detailed description of the lands further from Labrador and Newf. He also advises David not to run away till he was old enough.

      Many predictions can be made from the last two chapters. One being that David lives in Labrador, just near the border of Quebec. Labrador isn't cold anymore because of Global Warming. The Northern lands are so weird because the plants have overgrown and aren't like the ones in Labrador. The Fringes live in a drought, in Quebec. After that comes the Black lands. These are in the New Brunswick area. In the First World War, the Nova Scotian area was devastated by an explosion and hit with a blizzard. During the 30's, New Brunswick was hit with a large earthquake, and then also afterwards a blizzard. So I think it’s either still black from those events, or a nuclear war, or a volcano formed. I tend to think volcano, since there's a faint glowing in the distance. Further south, you can find the USA where people are isolated so they kind of became like tribes and believe a whole bunch of weird things. The American Dream, eh? Ya, right... the further south you get, the more black people you find, so I thought it might be Mexico or something. There was also an albino tribe, a hairless tribe, and tribes that think some weird things about deviations. And then they hit the weeds. I think they're weeds just before a coral reef, so they were fortunate to hit the weeds first. If you go east, you either find unending sea, or the country where man-eating-women rule. I think they just are crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and when they find the country of man-eating-women, they found England, but were half mad when they got there. And other than that, that is all that is known of the wide world.

Chapters 3 & 4

              In these chapters of the Chrysalids, Dave is quickly showing us his everyday life of school, lunch, visiting Sophie and so on. In their adventures, they go to see an old steam engine. They discuss how the Old People had better engines, and that they could even fly. I think that the Old People lived in a futuristic society with hover cars, and planes. The people in these times just perceived it as flying, but the gossip about them might have changed the whole story. Later on, when Dave goes home, notices I got a splinter. He takes it out and roughly bandages it. When his mother notices, she scolds him and repairs it. David then says, "I could have managed it if I'd had another hand." and His father freaks out. They all pray for him, and then is sent to his room to pray alone. He had blasphemed. David is starting to understand the seriousness of the promise he made to Mrs. Wender, Sophie's mom. I think because of this event, David will seek justice for people like Sophie.

              In chapter four, we, and Uncle Axel, discover that David and his half cousin Rosalind have the special ability to communicate through telepathy. The two and a group of others promise to keep their abilities secret. This will come in handy, as some will say they're mutants if they found out. I think because of this, they will run away together with David to find the city. In the next scene, the Fringes attack the civilization. And of course, they lose and their chiefs are taken captive. While they're paraded through the district, they stop at David's house. To Dave's surprise the one man looks exactly like his father except messier and longer. I think this means that there is a mutant of everyone living in the Fringes land. The Fringes are an exact copy of Waknuk and all the other civilized places, except wilder. The two "twins" will have much in common, but I think the Fringe version will be a lot more kind, compassionate, and loving than the religious, whitewashed hypocrites of Waknuk. I think they'll help each other out in the end, humanize the "civilized" people and educate the Fringes.

Chapters 1 & 2

                 The story, "the Chrysalids", starts out with the dream of a boy named David. Later on, we  see his dream is the opposite of his living conditions. He lives in an Amish-like society and dreams of a futuristic city by a bay. It seems he might be dreaming of a city from the past before God sent, "Tribulation." These two chapters are curious in many ways. One is how society rejects deformed people. The fact that they took the Bible and twisted it a little reminds me of how Satan works. He likes to take the truth and twist it a little to confuse and hurt us. I also thought of, "The Giver" (a novel), Atlantis, and the Pharisees. The Giver is a novel about a young boy who lives in a black and white world without pain. After training to become a "Receiver of Memories", he soon discovers things like colour, pain, animals, and much more. He goes on a journey to see what's beyond the dystopian society. I think that later on David will go of in search of the city, much like the boy in, "The Giver." I also think it's like the story of Atlantis, because it's an old city that was prosperous and much like our country, and it was destroyed and people had to start over again. The first few chapters finally remind me of the seven woes Jesus gave to the Pharisees. (Matthew Chapter 23) He called them whitewashed tombs, which meant they look moral on the outside, but on the inside were evil. In the book, they call all "mutants" evil, when they really don't know what they're like on the inside. But the people they should be looking at is themselves. Even their houses were whitewashed, which I think was some pretty clever symbolism. I think David will seek justice and peace between society and "mutants", but especially for Sophie. It may turn into a journey to seek answers, or even a God encounter, but who knows? I think it will end in the destruction of earth and David will find out the truth about God. After all, is it not said that God will send seven years of Tribulation then destroy the earth?