There comes a time in every person's life, when toys are no longer toys but mere annoyances, when you worry more about getting a job than that new phone, and when Your dreams of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy begin to fade. At the stage where every young adult experiences this metamorphosis, between the ages of ten and eighteen, the choices you make shape your future. In the case of David Strorm, protagonist of John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalis, the choices he is forced to make are a little more extreme than normal, but the same principles still apply. David must realize his true identity and how it varies from the society he grew up in, he must find differences between his father's views and his own, and, ultimately, he must accept that the world he knows is not as safe as he thought. . Over the course of the novel, as David Strorm matures and faces many difficult choices, he becomes a harsher and more bitter character. At the beginning of Chrysalids, we meet David as a ten-year-old who has conformed to satisfy his parents' strict rules. standard. David then meets a girl named Sophie, who turns out to be a mutant, something he should be afraid of. It is then that David first begins to question his father's beliefs, as shown in the quote: “A blasphemy was, as I had been told often enough, a fearful thing. Yet there was nothing scary about Sophie. She was just a normal little girl” (Wyndham 14). This phrase is the spark that will light the fire of rebellion within David as he realizes that his father's beliefs may not be morally correct and are often flawed. Naturally, David begins to feel a little betrayed by his father for leading him astray and imposing wrong beliefs on him, and the…half of the paper's life becomes what it is at the end of the book. the novel. Some of these help him change for the better, but many of them change him for the worse. So yes, David became more himself, escaped Waknuk's society and started a new life in Zeeland. However, he was also betrayed by his father, kicked out of his home, and haunted by people he knew and cared about simply because of telepathy. All of these factors ultimately make David a more mature and resilient character, but they also make him quite resentful of Waknuk society or the world in general. Growing up is always an uphill road, but for someone like David Strorm the path is even more difficult. Yet, in the end, he managed to get to the top, despite all the adversity he faced. This is truly the mark of a person who is willing to give up everything to succeed in the end.