Character Analysis Of David In The Chrysalids

After thoroughly reading the novel “The Chrysalids” and researching the characters along with the storyline even more, David one of the most dynamic characters in the book really stands out and is expressed with many traits along relationships with other characters, he plays a very important and crucial piece in this novel as you will find out after reading this paper. David is described as a character who poses a normal threat but really turns out to be a character who has a great amount of powers and influences the book’s storyline dramatically. David changes throughout the book from being accepting to tradition to later rebelling against Waknuk and their true image of god. In this essay it will be explaining David as a character and

He is very understanding to his friends and family although he can be lazy and avoid work at times. David is a part of what he says a secret group and is able to communicate to one another telepathically. His abilities is not normal and as it says in the book not the true “image of a man”. David has to be careful about his secret and make sure he does not tell anyone about what he can do. His dad Joseph Storm doesn't know about david's and his siblings abilities and neither knows about his friend Sophie's mutation. David is a caring person as shown to his little sister Petra, and keeps Sophie's 6 toed a secret. Throughout the novel David is considered abnormal because he constantly disagrees to follow the “ traditional and cultural” beliefs in his hometown Waknuk because of his special power. Being the way his dad is “high on the culture and tradition side of things” both characters not get along which leads to David getting beaten. Later in the book David and his fellow telepathically waknukians are forced to flee after their secret gets out with which changes him throughout the

After Allen found out about Sophie's foot, Sophie’s family knew right away that the outskirts was not safe for her to live in so they had to leave to the fringes. David knowing about his soon to leave friend wanted to see her which is one reason why he left Waknuk. Another reason why david left waknuk was because he felt that living there was putting his safety and wellbeing of himself, friends and family in danger. Also David wanted to live truthfully where he and his friends could be themselves without fearing for their lives. After David's father lead the charge and brought an inspector into Waknuk to look for any Creatures who had any abilities, Sally and Katherine two of David's friends were caught by the inspector and David finds out telepathically. Katherine was badly tortured by the inspector which lead her to telling him where David was and what he can do telepathically. This is when all of Waknuk knew they were all telepathic creatures. After this David and all of his friends are forced to leave Waknuk and flee elsewhere. Petra, David’s sister telepathically talked to the sealanders and told them that her, David and the others would be coming. Sealand is the perfect place for everyone to go to because it's a place where everyone is accepting