Escaping A Prison

As in most societies, there are people who must free themselves from what they feel is a prison.  David, Petra and Rosalind are examples from The Chrysalids. They feel that this society is not beneficial to them so they want to go somewhere that will help them, which is the Fringes. This is a place where they will not have to worry about being different.  For David, he has nothing to go back to because his parents are still mad at him for hiding Sophie’s deviation from them. David thought that he would be better off to leave and try and find Sophie.

This is also seen in both of my ISU novels where the protagonists, Chris and Franklin eave home to live in the wild. Chris runs away with little supplies and hitch hikes to get anywhere. He finally ends up in Alaska where he camps  out for multiple months. He ends up eating a poisonous plant and starves to death because he is too sick to get up to get food.

Franklin on the otherhand leaves home with a car load of food and supplies to last him for months. He leaves because his drinking problem has become known and his parents are now mad at him as David’s parents were. He canoes for a long time into the wilderness. He gets attacked by a bear, goes over a water fall, and survives a blizzard where he gets seriously frost bitten. Franklin is lucky enough to return to his family and change his negative attitude on life. He ends up becoming a social worker who helps out kids that are struggling with living a happy life.

Escaping that prison which confines these men seems to be more successful that fatal because two people better their lives and only one man’s adventure goes fatal. The ones who succeed seem to be happy now nad have benefited from leaving their society even if it was only for a short time like in Franklin’s case.