Powers
Who can communicate telepathically beyond their district?
Petra Strorm
Why does the group object to Anne's marriage?
She is marrying a "norm" which could put the group in danger.
David also know that Alan is willing to inform on mutants because of his experience with Sophie
“Then there was a pain, a demand pulling like a fish-hook embedded in my mind”
David (describing Petra's distress call)
The "mutant" with 6 toes.
Who is Sophie?
What point of view is the story written in?
1st person point of view (from David's perspective)
Aunt Harriet tries to swap babies with Emily; why?
Aunt Harriet has a deviant baby. We don't actually know what the deviation is.
Why does Anne commit suicide?
Her husband is found dead and she believes it was her friends who did it.
The Inspector
What is the first incident that illustrates Petra's "abnormality"?
The near-drowning experience in the river by the footbridge.
What tone or mood would you use to describe this text?
Foreboding, ironic, serious, cautionary
How come David is able to clarify Petra's visions of Sealand for the others?
He has had such visions himself of Sealand as a child.
What is different about the Zealand woman that surprises David compared to the women from Waknuk?
She has short hair
Zealander woman
Where do all the Deviations go?
The Fringes
What symbolism can we associate with David's home?
"Like all the houses of the district, it was constructed on a frame of solid, roughly-dressed timbers, but, since it was the oldest house there, most of the spaces in the outer walls had been filled in with bricks and stones from the ruins of some of the Old People's buildings, and plastered wattle was used only for the internal walls"
The house is sturdily built and the outside is supported by stones from the Old People. This could symbolically support the Strorm's devotion and religious conviction. The house is a metaphor for the even sturdier construction of their morality and purity.
What crime does Uncle Axel admit to?
Killing Alan
What is the role of the Inspector?
To inspect and ensure no deviation (in a crop, in a newborn baby, etc.).
“I’m telling you...that a lot of people saying that a thing is so, doesn’t prove it is so. I’m telling you that nobody, nobody really knows what is the true image. They all think they know"
Uncle Axel
What literary device(s) are used when David first describes Gordon Strorm?
“I had never seen hatred naked before, the lines cut deep, the eyes glittering, the teeth suddenly looking like a savage animal’s”
Simile
Metaphor (personification of 'hatred')
Why do David and Rosalind try to control Petra's powers?
because her powers are very strong and they put the group in danger. When she sends our her "distress call" everyone comes running to help.
Name the 2 important texts that are present in the Waknuk community.
The King James Bible and Nicholson's Repentances.
Name at least 2 of the signs in David's house.
1. Watch thou for the mutant
2. Keep pure, the stock of the lord
3. Blessed is the norm
4. In purity our salvation
5. The norm is the well of god
6. Reproduction is the only holy production.
A place that strives to be "perfect" but in actuality is a world of undesirable, frightening, great suffering or injustice is called a...?
Dystopia
Explain the symbolism behind the name of The Chrysalids
David and the telepaths are a new people emerging from the ruins of the old.
Means "transformation."