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Dreams
In the beginning of the novel we are put in a dream of our protagonist, David. He dreams of how the old people used to live, how there were carriages without a horse to pull them. How there were boats even though David doesn't know what a boat looks like. and that there were shiny fish-shaped things in the sky that were not birds. At this moment we at readers realize that these "old people" they are always referring to, are us. -
Welcome To Waknuk
After the dream, we are introduced to the land that our protagonist has lived in for his entire life and all the people in his life -
The Mutant Girl
While David is tobogganing in the gully. David sees someone in the bushes, a face emerges from the twigs and leaves. Revealing a little girl, named Sophie, that wants to toboggan down the gully like David. While tobogganing Sophie gets her foot stuck in between a rock. She struggles greatly but refuses for David to take off her shoe to get her foot out. Finally she gets her foot out of her shoe revealing a sixth toe on her foot. -
The Wish that Silenced like a Clap
David had run a splinter into his hand and when he pulled it out it started bleeding. He went to the kitchen and tried to tie up his hand but he couldn't with just his one non bleeding hand. so he asked his mother to tie it for him which led him to say,"I could have managed it all right by myself if I'd had another hand." David's father becomes absolutely furious with David's accidental "wish." David tries to protect his actions but there is no use, David knew from the beginning that he lost. -
Another Dream
David is having a dream but it's not one of those happy ones. David had a dream about Sophie being slaughtered by his father Joseph because she was a mutant. -
Telepathy
David is talking to Rosalind, except there is one little problem, they are not even in the same house. David gets found out by Uncle Axel but at least is was Uncle Axel and not someone like his father. Axel tells David to hide this strange ability and not let anyone know about it. Before Uncle Axel gave this information, David was not hiding anything. He was just sitting there talking to himself with out a care about the consequences that might come. -
The Great Horses
The great horses are a special breed of horse in the custody of Angus Morton. They are a lot bigger than a normal horse and a lot stronger too. -
Sophie's Capture
After Sophie's foot is noticed by Alan, Sophie and her family attempt to leave their home and Waknuk in itself. Just before Sophie and her family left their house she wraps her arms around his neck and gives him a kiss. It was "with more determination than judgement." When David comes back to the house he finds the inspector and his father who was very mad. After getting a beating from his father with a whip, Joseph finally beats the answer out of him. Sophie was then captured and punished. -
A New Addition to the Family
David gets a new baby sister named Petra. The inspector comes by to see Petra and confirms her Normalcy Certificate. -
Aunt Harriet
Aunt Harriet is the sister of David's mother Emily. Aunt Harriet recently had a child but it had a mutation, and because it was her third mutation in a row she would be left by her husband. So Aunt Harriet's plan was to borrow Petra to pass the normalcy examination. After Joseph and Emily refused, Aunt Harriet left in tears, as did Emily. Later that day Emily was reported dead in a river and the baby was nowhere to be found. -
And Then There Were Nine
David and the rest of the Chrysalids find out that there is now a ninth telepathic kid, Petra. -
A Close Call
David is in the field working until something hits him hard in his mind. He follows the noise followed by the other workers in the field. This sound leads him to a river meeting up with Rosalind and finding Petra drowning. However, Petra made no physical sound only thought shapes. Leaving the people who followed Rosalind and David really confused on how they knew. Giving Petra, David and Rosalind all eyes on them and the actions they were doing. -
Anne gets Married
One of the telepathic kids, Anne announces that she is getting married to Alan, the same guy who let the cat out of the bag about Sophie -
Murder
After the wedding Anne and Alan get a house and are living happily until Anne ignores the warnings of the other chrysalids. Shortly after Anne blocks out the others, Alan is found dead with an arrow through his neck. Throwing Anne into a deep depression going so far as to commit suicide. Later that day David talks to Uncle Axel about the incident and Uncle Axel says he killed Allan. This was because Anne told Allan about the chrysalids. -
Petra's Lessons
Petra gets taught how to control her powers, so that the others can understand her and not be blinded by the sheer force of her message. -
Another Close Call
Petra is going through the deep forest on horse back alone. After she leaves she sends out a distress call to the other chrysalids. However like the river she never calls out for help. all the chrysalids gather to the spot that Petra is in and find out she is being attacked by a mutant animal. They kill the animal and save Petra, But Sally and Kathrine are followed by Jerome Skinner. And then Sally and Katherine are captured by the inspectors. -
Escape
After Sally and Kathrine get captured, David, Rosalind and Petra escape toward the Fringes on the great horses. On the way, They are being followed by the people of Waknuk. Petra also communicates with a woman from a place called Sealand. -
Into the Fringes
David, Rosalind and Petra make it to the Fringes. they are then taken captive and are taken to the leader Gordon, David's Uncle. Gordon plans to take revenge on Waknuk and on his brother, Joseph. While in the Fringes David is kicked out of the village and the two girls are kept for "breeding purposes." David is then Reunited with Sophie and they hatch a plan to save the girls from the village. Meanwhile Petra communicates with the Sealand woman to come and save them. -
Sealand
After David, Rosalind, Petra and Michael are saved, Michael decides to stay with Rachael in Waknuk until the Sealand woman can come back for them. David, Rosalind and Petra get in the aircraft and fly to Sealand. When they get to Sealand, David realises that it is the exact same city as in his dream. And everyone ends up satisfied with where they ended up. -
The Battle
After Rosalind and Petra are saved, the Waknuk people finally catch up to David, Rosalind and Petra. A great battle between Waknuk and Fringes commences, in the battle Gordon finally gets his revenge on Joseph and shoots him with an arrow. When Gordon tries to flee with Sophie he is shot down by a random arrow. Shortly after Sophie is shot down too. Soon after the Sealand woman comes in a giant air craft with inconceivable technology. Saving Petra, David, Rosalind and Michael.
