The Chrysalids Imagine living in a place where there seemed to be a sense of evil in the eyes of everyone, except David Strorm. This place was called Waknuk. Waknuk was a place where anything out of the ‘norm’ was wrong and sinful and could even end in a consequence as serious as death. Life was good for those who believed and practiced the Waknuk religion. For those whom were not believers in the Waknuk religion found life to be hard and unfair. Throughout David’s life in Waknuk he was faced with many tools of evil such as prejudice, pride and deception. David painfully learned that that prejudice causes individuals to be isolated from each other, pride causes in