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Davids dream
David dreamed of a city when he was small. " clustered on the curve of a big blue bay," " streets and buildings lined them,"" boats in the harbor" "carts running with no houses pulling them, a few of them seemed to be sparks drifting on the water, or in the air" but David had never heard or seen a city. -
David meets Sophie
While Davids playing on the slide he spots a mysterious girl he had never seen before. A younger girl, shy, kind and a complete stranger, David asked her to play. Their playing came to an end when Sophie got her foot stuck, struggling not to cry. With the unwanted help of David, Sophie eventually gets her foot unstuck and exposes her hidden mutation an addition toe on each foot -
Davids new friend
After Sophie hurts herself and David walked her home, David stayed as her parents explained the extreme danger she is under every time one more person knows. and being the David is the son of the man who's determined to eliminate all mutants.so David stays silent in return a friendship. -
David's hand
David was having a problem completing a task and said " i wish i had a third hand." but his dad did not take that lightly. he aggressively suggested that he wanted to be a mutant, than demand him to leave and go pray. -
alan
Alan, Davids classmate rudely interrupts David and sophie fishing. and when sophie walked out of the water to get her shoes on, alan spots her foot print and notics an extra toe. -
Alan and David
when Alan took off after Sophie David started a fight with Alan, to by Sophie to run home. but Alan being way bigger, Alan begins to beat the life out of David. but lucky Sophie came to the rescue and hits Alan with a rock. due to unfortunately circumstances Sophie and her family had to leave. -
Davids secrete
Uncle Axel is told about David's and Rosalind’s a telepathic ability.Uncle Axel understands that David is able to communicate telepathically to Rosalind, he makes David promise never to tell anyone about his ability.Uncle Axel also suggests that he no longer carry out these conversations out loud. He tells David to have Rosalind promise to do the same. -
Petra's ability
Petra's abilities are slightly different from those of David and the others. The difference in abilities is that Petra has a stronger force of communicating. When David had saved Petra from drowning, he described what the force felt like to him. He said that "it was as if something had hit him physically, inside his head" (p.83). Petra's powers seem to be way more powerful then the others as hers can become more physical. -
Anne marries Alan
Anne marries Alan who is not vary trustworthy, and it wouldn't be save for Anne or the group. but no matter anybody's opinion Anne still marries him. and shuts out the group. -
Alan's death
after Anne and Alan get married and she shuts out the group. nobody had heard of her in a while or Alan and when someone went to go check on them. Alan was found murdered. and not long after so was Anne was too for suicide. along with a note exposing the group, which is destroyed by Rachel. -
another life in the river
After the birth of her child Davids aunt decided to ask his parents to help, Help with hiding her baby's mutation. and after rudely declining her, she gives her baby to the fringes and jumps into the river. to not live without her baby. -
Davids dreams
For the first time Rosalind and David’s ability puts them in real danger. David knows that he must guard his secret carefully, and once again his recurring dreams are associated with stress about discretion. In his semiconscious state he can foresee that Petra is in danger. -
Jacob's Blasphemies
To Jacob, the crop failure is proof that the Waknukians have regressed on their path toward righteousness. He so firmly believes that Blasphemies are not human that he feels no qualms about burning them to death rather than allowing them to keep living in “sin.” This is a horrifying idea to David, but he is glad to finally know what happens to Blasphemies when they are discovered. -
Sally and Katherine are captured
Sally, another telepath, responds to Petra’s cry for help in the forest, and is captured by government officials who torture her into confirming that Rosalind, David, and Petra are Blasphemies. she manages to protect the identities of Rachel, Michael, and Mark. The group fears that Sally may have gone insane as a result of the torture inflicted upon her. -
Davids feelings
David is forced to express his love of Rosalind to the reader through words. He speaks in metaphorical language but says that poetics fail to truly capture his emotions. -
Davids lesson
David ventures deeper into the wilderness, he learns that more and more of the things he was taught as a child are not true. His experience with Sophie taught him that having a Deviation does not necessarily make a person evil. He now realizes that she was not an exception, and many people who Deviate are actually very kind. -
Zealander view
Zealander woman presents an irreligious understanding of the world in which certain races are superior to others. She considers those without the ability to think-together to be less than human and intends for people of her ability to take over the world. -
escape
David and the others want to escape from the intolerance in Waknuk, but the spidery man wants to punish Waknuk for it. He feels that what is rightfully his has been stolen from him by David’s father, and he wants revenge. Even though Joseph Strorm and the spidery man would self-identify as being very different from one another, they are actually quite similar in personality. Both are willing to turn on their own family in the pursuit of their goals, to which they hold unwaveringly. -
Living in the Fringes
David, not motivated by hatred or vengeance, has no desire to return to a place where he is oppressed. Despite the dangers of living in the Fringes, he is happy to be able finally to be himself. The spidery man, however, interprets David’s desire to escape intolerance as weakness. -
David violence
Although David avoids violence whenever possible, he is fiercely protective of Rosalind. The fact that David finally becomes aggressive helps humanize him. David is not so morally righteous that he does not ever have a violent thought. He can be aggressive, but only when truly antagonized.