Before the larvae of most insects become an adult, they remain in a protective state not moving or growing. In the novel "The Chrysalids", John Wyndham, the author, rephrases the definition of Chrysalid to describe the future of humanity. It is after a disaster destroying almost all of humanity forcing humans to start civilization from the beginning. Two surviving books develop a religion purging those who are deformed and putting themselves in a Chrysalid stage, …showed first 75 words of 707 total…

…showed last 75 words of 707 total…to a place where evolution is the key to survival, which is New Zealand. The people of Waknuk continue to follow their religion remaining in their sheltered and stagnant state purging mutation and avoiding mutation. The Chrysalids will remain following religion about the image of God when one question remains, "what real evidence have we got about the true image" (63)? The Chrysalids might not be the real image of God, because the answer is none.