The Chrysalids: The Importance of Telepathy :: The Chrysalids

The Chrysalids The Importance of Telepathy nigh people dream about having an ability to communicate through mental telepathy. Some even claimed to have this ability but it played an important role in the novel The Chrysalids. The author created an interesting environment. There was no communication and the wholly people who could communicate between each other were the ones that had the power of telepathy. Because in slightly areas the land was so dangerous because of the radiation that people were cut of from a nonher(prenominal) and left on a small piece of land. They could not communicate. Though-shapes not only developed the plot of the story but greatly affected the lives of some characters and might affect Waknuk. We all know that people in Waknuk were very superstitious but did it actually help the plot to develop? On knave 91 through 103 in the long run and idea gets out about some people being able to communicate through thought-shapes. When Katherine a nd Sally got caught and tortured they finally tell some of the names to the inspector. This forces David, Rosalind and Petra to runaway to the fringes, and they established some kind of contact with a woman from Sealant (Zealand, On page 134). The help that the sealer woman promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the one in Davids dreams. Because of the telepathy David discovers that such a city really exists but just about of all through Petra they establish contact with a more civilized people than they are. Because of the conflicts in the story it leads the main characters to discover the sealant city. Telepathy not only affects the plot of the story but also the main characters in the novel. The most obvious thing is that David, Rosalind and Petra are saved. They have a chance to learn, sleep with new things they never saw or heard before.