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In a way the book is against 'religious fanaticism'. Only to a fanatic could the book be condemned in this way.

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A normalcy certificate is a certificate that is granted to new born babies only if they are normal without any problem.

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Strorm

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Joseph Strorm

Emily Strorm

David Strorm

Petra Strorm

Rosalind Morton

Sophie Wender

Uncle Axel

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Maturity, Racism, Evolution, That about sums it up. Alternate answer: Personally I'd say that it has a number of universal themes the main one being Darwins ascertion that evolution is the triumph of the fittest. Religious intolerance, bigotry (I don't remember any discrimination based on race), the rights of the indiviual as opposed to society and a warning about the possible consequence of nuclear war are all themes in the novel. And there may well be other themes that I haven't even touched upon.

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onomatopeia

alliteration

imagery

metaphor

similie

suspense

irony

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Deviations, blasphemies and offences. offences are plants that do not look like their parent plants. Blasphemies are offences among humans. both are deviations.

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people fear and hate those who are differant.

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In the Crystalids Anne marries Alan

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The badlands is a place where the fringes people, when sterilised are sent to, to live apart from the people of Waknuk. In the time of the Old People, a nuclear bomb was dropped on what is now known as the Badlands, causing the land to become infertile. Nothing that is the norm of Waknuk can grow in the Badlands because this bomb was dropped.

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The characters in the book The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham are;

David Strorm - main character, narrator, telepath

Mary Strorm- David's older sister

Petra Strorm- David's little sister, strong telepath

Emily Strorm- David's mother

Joseph Strorm- David's father, preacher, purifier

Rosalind Morten- David's cousin, telepath, David's girlfriend

Angus Morten- David's uncle, Rosalind's dad

Uncle Axel- David's best friend and uncle, sailor

Micheal- Telepath

Katherine- Telepath

Sally- Telepath

Anne- Telepath, married to Alan Ervin, sister of Rachel

Rachel- Telepath, sister of Anne

Walter Brent- Telepath, killed in a tree accident

Mark- Telepath

Sophie Wender- David's friend, deviation; has six toes

Mary Wender- Sophie's mother

John Wender- Sophie's father

Gordon/ Spider man- Leader of the Fringes, deviation

The Sealand Woman- Telepath for New Zealand, saves David, Rosalind and Petra

*there are more, didn't think they were quite important.

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Sophie Wender lived in the Fringes

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'Actually there are no motifs with in the chrysalids but I will advise you to read the book than to take someone's wrongful judgement.'

..are you kidding? motifs are ideas or themes that are constantly present in a book. EVERY book will have motifs.

some of The Chrysalids' motifs include fear, blaspheme, intolerance and telepathy.

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assuming you are talking about The Chrysalids, it is a book that the people of Waknuk treat like the bible. It basically states a bunch of different guidelines for them to follow.

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The Wender parents are important because their daughter Sophie is a mutant (with an extra toe on each foot). Sophie is important because she is the first mutant David (the main character) sees as a person. He even becomes friends with her. When a local boy sees Sophie's foot, she and her family must run, and this causes David to consider what would happen to Sophie if she was caught. He worries that she would be executed like the animal mutants are. Later on, when David, Rosalind and Petra have fled to the Fringes, they meet Sophie and through her learn of the horrors of Fringe life.

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The Telepaths:

David Strorm--Main character of the book, and a telepath. He finds himself at odds with his family and community, perhaps because he can percieve thoughts and feelings of those around him. He hides his compassion and difference at first just to avoid his father's abuse, but later because he understands and sees the consequences to anyone who is different.

Walter Brent--He was the telepath who "stopped" because of a logging accident before the group shared their names with each other. David's uncle found out who it was. He was nine, and he was related to David on his mother's side... her maiden name was Brent.

Michael--He is the telepath that is the oldest in the group. He goes off to school and teaches them all what he is learning. He volunteers for the posse that is riding out to capture David, Petra, and Rosalind in order to spy on them and keep his fellow telepaths informed. At the end of the book he stays behind for Rachel... they appear to be a couple.

Anne--Very much a realist who tries to have a life with a "normal" person. It is a tragedy because it doesn't work out, and the book makes it seem like it couldn't have from the start. She also marries the man that turned Sophie in, so David thinks it is a bad idea because of that as well.

Rachel--Anne's sister, and the person who saves the telepaths when Anne commits suicide, by taking the note that revealed all of them and burning it. She is afraid of being left behind/being alone, and is the person that Michael goes back for. She and Michael appear to be a couple at the end.

Rosalind Morton--David's half-cousin and girlfriend later in the book. She is exposed when Katherine and Sally are captured, and escapes with David and Petra.

Katherine--She and Sally are the last to ride to the defense of Petra's second large meltdown, and this causes them both to later be captured. Katherine is tortured for the names of others, and she reveals David, Petra, and Rosalind. She is later killed.

Sally--She and Katherine are the last to arrive at Petra's second mental meltdown, and this gets her and Katherine later captured by the community. She stays in touch long enough to warn the group about what Katherine has told them and who needs to flee. Later, presumably during torture, the anti-mutationites harm her in some way that destroys her ability to think and communicate anything but garble mentally. She never reveals Michael or Rachel, but we can't be sure about Mark, because (like Walter), his mental voice just stops, and we aren't sure why.

Mark--Mark remained hidden during all of the novel that we know about, but in the end he stops mentally communicating with the others, and we are not sure what happens to him.

Petra Strorm--David's sister. Her telepathy is much stronger and perhaps a little bit different from the main group's... she also has a much larger range at which she can hear people's thoughts. Her mental meltdowns are what destroys the group and gets some of them killed and hunted.

Woman from Zealand--She recognizes Petra's strength and comes to rescue her so that she can breed and produce stronger telepathy in the Zealand community. She saves the other telepaths and welcomes them, and murders everyone else.

Non-telepaths:

Joseph Strorm--leader of the community, abusive father of David. He tries to live as close to the rules as possible, and believes that mutation will harm the community, with some reason, but his love for his son and the rest of his family is conditional upon them fitting into the mold he wants them to fit into.

Emily Strorm--David's mother. She refuses to help her own sister hide a defect in her child, and although she expresses some sympathy or regret at the extremity of the consequences, she seems to also believe in purity and fighting mutation and deviance.

Aunt Harriet--David's aunt and Emily's sister. She gives birth to a slightly deviant infant and, because it is her third (and last) chance, travels to visit her sister in the hope that she will help her preserve her life. She is disappointed in this desire, and is later found dead. David and Uncle Axel discuss the fact that though it is termed a suicide, it was assuredly not one.

Uncle Axel--David's uncle. He is the only one that David trusts about his ability. He protects David as much as he can, including killing Alan Ervin and warning him about the inspector asking about him. He is the first to bring up the idea that perhaps David's deviance is actually superior to normal.

Spider Man--David's uncle, who looks a lot like his brother Joseph. He was sent to the Fringes as a boy because of a mutation, making his arms and legs much longer than normal.

Mary Strorm--David's older sister. She want to protect and comfort him when possible, but is also scared of their father, and outside the telepathic group, so never invited into David's confidence.

Sophie Wender--Childhood friend of David. Alan comes upon her footprint and turns her in. David tells her parents (Martie and Johnny) and they prepare to flee. David tries to protect them after begging to go with them, but they are captured.

Angus Morton--Rosalind's father. Feuds with Joseph Strorm over how radical they can be in preserving purity.

Old Jacob--Keeper at the Strorm farm. Very radical believer in purity.

Alan Ervin--Anne's husband. The one that reported Sophie, and who was apparently planning to blackmail all of the telepaths. Is killed by Uncle Axel.

Jerome Skinner--The person who rides after Katharine and Sally and turns them into the Inspector.

The Inspector--A government official who is responsible for enforcing purity. He is a nicer man than David's father, and doesn't approve of the abuse. He let's David off the hook for protecting Sophie, but later is the reason that David prepares to flee, because Uncle Axel hears that the inspector has been asking about him.

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You asked What not Who so --- they are those that have the ability to communicate telepathically.

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Thought shapes are actually David and Rosalind's telepathic abilities.

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The badlands are parts of southern Canada. Further South are a mixture of badlands and blacklands/black coasts, presumed to the area of New York and former industrialised NE America.

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Man vs. Man Man vs. Society Man vs. Nature Man vs you

Its mostly about David and his telepathic friends trying to hide the fact that they are mutants from the surrounding society. When some of the members are discovered David, Rosalind and Petra run away into the Fringes.

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In the Chrysalids, the fringes are people with deviations or mutiny. Therefore, they live apart from the people of Waknuk who are a norm. (the image of God)

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Spiderman is the brother of Joseph Strorm . Spidermans' real name is Gordon Strorm. Gordon was sent to the Fringes because he was a mutant according to the religion of Waknuk. He had long arms and limbs which made him look like a spider. He is also the leader of the Fringes.

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