John Wyndham’s, The Chrysalids , is a novel describing the effects of discrimination taking a dark turn in society. The truth brought to one’s eyes, concerning the cruelty that can be brought to this world, including all past events that we had suffered through, is traumatizing; especially witnessing connections from Waknuk to Earth. The horrors of Waknuk had many impacts on how the community treats other. However, the realism, that reflects on the monstrosity of our society is uncanny. With the characteristics, racism, ignorance, and fear, our two realities do collide with similarities. In most actions, a judgment view affects everything; demonstrated in each society is racism. The Waknuk society is based on the superior decision of moly …show more content…
Any common person has fears, and it conflicts with our subsconscious of how we deal with situations. In Waknuk and Earth’s society, our fears are clearly demonstrated and recklessly acted with. David is informing Petra about how it is to be different in Waknuk, he states, “‘Why should they be afraid of us? We aren’t hurting them,’ she broke in. I’m not sure that I know why,’ I told her. ‘But they are. It’s a feel-thing not a think-thing. And the more stupid they are the more like everyone else they think everyone ought to be. And once they get afraid they become cruel and want to hurt people who are different - ’‘Why?’ inquired Petra.‘They just do. And they’d hurt us very much if they could catch us.’‘I don’t see why,’ Petra persisted.‘It’s the way things work. It’s complicated and rather nasty’”. (144) This illustrates, the fear within people, to do drastic action without reasoning. As for society today, fear of each other causes traumatizing disaster, many lives taken away. When David and Sophie encounter Alan, he discovers Sophie’s extra toe, later on David exclaims, “No, he saw the footmark, that’s why the wanted to catch her”. (45) This demonstrates, how Alan’s fear to different and dedication to normality, is conflicting with the human and unhuman choices. As in our society, people fear Islam's, due to the thought all Muslims are terrorists. However, the human choice, excluding fear, is that neither of these statements are facts. Having fear of the unexplained is an impactful role. Although humans using all characteristics, it assists the world's’