Chrysalids And The Marrow Thieves: A Comparative Analysis

In harsh realities, societies fall apart because they fear and mistreat people who are different. In The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline clearly demonstrate this topic. In The Chrysalids, a futuristic society uses strict religious rules to punish people who are different from what they think a normal person should be. In The Marrow Thieves, Indigenous characters are hunted by the government for the dreams hidden in their bone marrow. The Chrysalids and The Marrow Thieves depict dystopian worlds where different groups face persecution, exploring themes of identity, resilience, and the struggle for survival amidst societal collapse. In both the novels, different groups face persecution due to their special

This connects with the main idea that in this kind of world, people who are treated badly and living in an environment where being different is considered really bad and even sinful. This makes life hard for anyone who is not everyone else since they are being targeted for discrimination and persecution for being themselves. In The Marrow Thieves, the characters’ struggle against the government’s brutal attempts to strip Indigenous people of their cultural identity and dreams, which are deeply buried within them, as shown in the following quote: “We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones” (Dimaline 90). This connects to the thesis as it shows how Indigenous people face persecution and abuse in a dystopian world. By aiming for the Indigenous people and trying to erase their cultural identity and dreams, the government maintains a cycle of discrimination and