The Chrysalids illustrates how physical appearance is not as important as a person’s inner qualities. Firstly, Sophie looks like a monster to Waknuk because of her physical deformities, but she has a very loving personality. Secondly, Joseph Strorm is visually within Waknuk’s true image, but his personality is awful. It is important to emphasize that physical appearance is not as valuable as inner qualities because, unfortunately, in today’s society, people care more about how other people look, rather than somebody’s charisma. Firstly, Sophie Wender has an unusual number of toes, which means she is not within Waknuk’s true image beliefs; despite her deformities, Sophie Wender is a very thoughtful person. To illustrate, when Alan Ervin attacks David Strorm, Sophie hits him in the head with a rock in attempt to help David. “‘I hit him,’ she said proudly, and with a touch of wonderment. ‘Do you think I killed him?’”(45). Instead of Sophie Wender …show more content…
walking away and ignoring Alan Ervin and what she had done to him, she is concerned for his well-being. Sophie Wender may look different than everybody else, but her inner qualities are kind, even though there is hatred towards her. Secondly, Joseph Strorm is categorized as a “perfect man”, but his personality is cruel and disgusting.
For example, when Joseph Strorm finds out that his son, David Strorm, knows someone who is a blasphemy, he snaps and beats David. “My father followed, picking up a whip from the table as he came… by now it wasn’t so much the bodily hurts that brought them; it was bitterness, self-contempt, and abasement.” (52). Joseph Strorm has so much anger, he abuses David, even though it is his own son. Joseph Strorm is portrayed as a cruel and abusive man, even though he is within God’s true image. It is important to be aware that appearance is not as valuable as inner qualities, Firstly, Sophie Wender may have a physical deformity, which makes the people of Waknuk fear her, but her personality is very loving and kind. Secondly, Joseph Strorm is a representation of God’s true image, but his charisma is very atrocious. In conclusion, appearance can be deceiving: people need to stop pre-judging others based on how they
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When we feel the need to change outward appearance we need to be concerned and aware of how those changes effect the person we are within as we are about appearance. External beauty is not as attractive if the person inside is not the type of person we would want to be with. Appearance can be initially blinding and deceptive. When you being to look beyond the outer layers of appearance and into the character of the person you are relating to you can quickly find the beauty alone is not enough to sustain a meaningful relationship. Beauty can fade and appearance change as we grow older but who we are at the core should remain constant or improve with age and wisdom. Kit Reed’s story shows the high cost of how focusing only on your outer appearance to the detriment of the person you are can
Joseph Strorm is the character in the novel that has the greatest disliking toward blasphemies against his beliefs. He has very strong ideas of God and follows the rules of his religion in a fundamental, conservative way. Seemingly, he is insensitive to anybody who is not considered a norm by him and cares nothing about other’s situations. He shows his true feeling towards people when he says “ Pg 71.” Also, it shows Joseph is an unforgiving and insensitive person who puts value on his personal beliefs before the care of his family. He controls his followers with fear and gives strict guidelines to...
Humans have many flaws, the seven deadly sins, our morals, our mentalities, and so forth. The Chrysalids, written by John Wyndham does a very good job of portraying these flaws, throughout its story, characters, and plot. The novel The Chrysalids reveals the true nature of humanity through various situations, and characters such as, Joseph Strorm’s ignorant and strict ways regarding the true image, Spider-Man who bears a grudge toward his brother and eventually kills him, and the Sealand Lady who justifies killing the Waknuk posse because they are less valuable.
Society tends to misjudge people base on their appearances instead of their personality. As it’s shown on Cyrano de Bergerac story everyone misjudges people. Cyrano was ashamed of the way he looked, especially with his enormous nose that made him stand out. People didn’t care if Cyrano got his feelings hurt they thought he was a cruel person. Its bad when people tends to misjudge people without even knowing them but they just judge them by their looks instead of their personality. People shouldn’t be ashamed of the way they look and it shouldn’t stop them from accomplishing their goals and express their feelings towards the people they like.
“Unfortunately, this moral looking-glass is not always a very good one. Common looking-glasses, it is said, are extremely deceitful, and by the glare which they throw over the face, conceal from the partial eyes of the person many deformities which are obvious to everybody besides. But there is not in the world such a smoother of wrinkles as is every man’s imagination, with regard to the blemishes of his own character” (112).” (Kelleher
In the first chapter of God Behaving Badly, David Lamb argues that God is unfairly given a bad reputation. He claims these negative perceptions are fueled by pop culture and lead many to believe the lie that the God of the Old Testament is angry, sexist, racist, violent, legalistic, rigid, and distant. These negative perceptions, in turn, affect our faith. Ultimately, Lamb seeks to demonstrate that historical context disproves the presumptuous aforementioned. In addition, he defends his position by citing patterns of descriptions that characterize God throughout the Old Testament. “Our image of God will directly affect how we either pursue or avoid God. If we believe that the God of the Old Testament is really harsh, unfair and cruel, we won’t want anything to do with him” (Lamb 22). Clearly, they way Christians choose to see God will shape their relationship with Him.
Sometimes people overlook certain details, and qualities about a person, things such as how evil someone may be on the inside. Maybe these details are overlooked due to how innocent someone may appear to be. In the two short stories, “The Possibility Of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, and “Lamb To The Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, both of the main characters have appearances that are very misleading and far from the truth. In “The Possibility Of Evil”, Miss Strangeworth (the main character) looks like a nice old lady, but is actually sortof evil. In “Lamb To The Slaughter”, the main character, Mary Maloney appears to be loving and sweet, but she’s really a murdered. In these two stories, there is a common theme of; looks can be deceiving.
The American Dream is something that anyone no matter their background, social standings, or ethnicity can improve their life through hard work.
When David was complaining about how sometimes his thought-shaping hurts, Sophie reminded him that she is experiencing hurt too: “To be any kind of deviant is to be hurt - always” (167). Sophie may not be going through physical pain like David does occasionally but she does go through emotional pain, like all deviants do. David is now aware that no matter what type of deviant one is, one will be shunned even by the people closest to them, unless they are deviants themselves. In connection to his self-awareness, David is really close to Sophie and he respects her thoughts so, when she states this, this made him think more deeply about who he is and where he fits in the twisted communities he belongs to. When David was talking to Sophie about how amazing the Old People are said to be, Sophie provides him with her very different perspective. “‘My father says that if one-quarter of the things they say about the Old People are true, they must have been magicians not real people, at all,’ Sophie countered” (24). Sophie and the other Wenders do not believe that the Old People are they are made out to be. They are skeptical, unlike the Strorms. The Strorms believe strictly in The Repentances and the Bible. These books survived the Tribulation and therefore, they are supposedly very fundamental to the Waknukians’ existence. Before Sophie, David had
John Wyndams purpose for writing The Chrysalids is to teach his readers valuable lessons, which inclue that, his readers learn about discrimination in a deeper way, about how change is always an option, and how religion often affects one’s thinking. He makes it evident to his readers that judging people by their first impression is wrong. Also how change is possible but hard to achieve. More specifically religion is often used as the foundation upon which people make decisions.
Many people have different perceptions of suffering. Some of them see sickness and trauma as the main causes of sorrow and anguish in a person’s life. Rarely does a person think that one’s physical appearance can be a cause of sorrow and misery. This is Lucy’s story. She recounts the events of her life in her book Autobiography of a Face. She developed cancer as a young child, and this forced her to undergo surgery and numerous sessions of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She had to endure numerous stares and insults from other people. This was a trying time for the young girl considering what she had to undergo. However, it did not compare to her later years. She spent countless hours in hospitals trying to get the perfect face. She did not want to be different from everyone else. In the end, she realized that the beauty and satisfaction that she was looking for were deeper within her. She could not get what she was looking for in the mirror or in the approval of others. To Lucy, being different from others was worse than the cancer she had. Despite the numerous challenges she faced, Lucy remained resilient.
“God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance” (93).
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” (Kahlil). People focus more on the outward appearance instead of the inward appearance. One’s inward appearance is comprised of their character, values, morals, and the true nature of their heart. On the other hand, the outward appearance is composed of one’s dress and grooming. The inward and outward appearance determines whether or not a person is ugly or beautiful. The choices that we make also define whether or not one is ugly or beautiful; choices made in the past can sometimes be repeated in the future.
This essay elaborates on the importance of physical appearance of an individual as a criterion for personal development and success in a career.
In our society, appearance and its importance might not look like a problem because of how much it is present in our lives and how it has been presented to us but it is important because we face problems like bullying at every level from child to adult and lower self-esteem that are highly correlated to suicide. The problems that we face today related to appearances are important so this topic deserve attention. Because it affects children, parents, models, teenagers and everybody, we s...