Reader: Mr. Pounds
Readers who have read this book:
Owen S.
Caleb W.
Mrs. Martin
Mrs. Minier
Jason T.
Mr. Lowe
Nick W.
Daniel S.
Nelson L.
Samantha P.
Mr. Schlemmer
Amber E.
Ashley S.
Laura G.
Available: Throughout the day in the hallway office beside the HOT Lab.
Why I like this book: When I was teaching in a remote area of Northern Ontario twenty years ago, Ojibway Indian students recommended this book to me . In many ways, that small community of seventy-five was much like the setting of this book. We had no telephones, heated only with wood, and had few modern conveniences. The community was very religious and conservative. Our only electricity was a generator. It felt like I took a step back in time . . . or perhaps as this book suggests, a step into the future.
Summary:
Wyndham inaugurated the persecuted mutants coming-of-age idea with The Chrysalids decades before the X-Men. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future with an all-too-believable religion in which biological norms are the measure of virtue. (A passage of preachiness from a progressive mutant near the end of the book provided the inspiration and principal lyrics for Jefferson Airplane's song "Crown of Creation.") Except for the ending, the story has excellent pacing and credible characters. It's not a monumental work of literature, but it holds up after half a century.
Source: librarything.com
Jefferson Airplane Crown Of Creation lyrics
ReplyDeleteYou are the Crown of Creation
You are the Crown of Creation
and you've got no place to go.
Soon you'll attain the stability you strive for
in the only way that it's granted
in a place among the fossils of our time.
In loyalty to their kind
they cannot tolerate our minds.
In loyalty to our kind
we cannot tolerate their obstruction.
Life is Change
How it differs from the rocks
I've seen their ways too often for my liking
New worlds to gain
My life is to survive
and be alive
for you.
I just finished reading a book that reminded me of this one. It is called "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.
ReplyDeleteOur library has a copy.
http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/0439023483/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264525266&sr=8-1