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?