In the book the chrysalids by John Wyndham I think that the concept of identity is very connected to the way the character's physical body is. For example it is connected because the citizens of waknuk judge whether people are "pure" by their physical body and if they find that they have any kind of abnormality they are considered impure and are treated like an abomination and sent to the Fringes. This goal of being pure goes as far as whenever a baby is born the baby is checked for any abnormalities or deviations and nobody can acknowledge that the baby even exists until the baby passes the inspection. But if the baby does not pass the inspection the baby is rejected and not let into the family. Also these teachings that being abnormal and having deviations means that you are defiling God's image and creation are taught to everyone at a young age and so it is imprinted in their minds that deviations are monsters made by Satan to defy God. …show more content…
And sometimes we can be a little harsh to the people that we deem different from us and we exclude them from our social circle just because of what they look like. Also just like the Waknuk people today's society sort of put a base to what we should strive to look like or to what we should think is beautiful. And they have a big impact on children growing up especially teens on what they should look like and can sometimes lead to a person thinking negatively about themselves just because they don’t look like that girl or guy from a magazine. The dreadful feeling of not belonging in the book can also be related to today on how many people try to fit in into a certain clique or social group just so they do not feel like they are alone and usually people in that clique will have similarities like their physical attributes maybe they are all fit and athletes or maybe they aren't so fit and like video