Hemingway is preoccupied with
-violence and death-
Answer:
Uncle Axel is a kind man who does not share the Waknukian extreme beliefs, he is reasonable about issues that the authorities consider as Offences.
He has an open mind regarding his world and the rest of the world beyond the Labradors, and is concerned with the actual origin of things.
However he is also shrewd enough to keep his beliefs to himself.
These traits of his helps to develop and reinforce the idea of necessary secrecy for David (the protagonist) and others, the support his character gives David and the others enables them to live for many years without detection.
He indirectly encourages David to explore the world and follow his dreams when he gets the chance. His insistence that David helps to keep others like him safe contributes to the climax of the story, in that the group's effort to keep one of them safe lead to their being detected and brought under suspicion.
Explanation:
In <em>The Chrysalids</em> Uncle Axel is David's uncle, he is a kind and reasonable man who keeps an open mind and does not share the extreme religious belief of his people.
His character personality and support for David is the catalyst fro most of David's actions in the story, which contribute to the development of and complication of the plot.
Here is an example of a eulogy for a dying river:
Let us remember that all things come to an end even the most beautiful and useful of things, like this river. You were once the most beautiful and useful of things to both living and nonliving things. You provided the fish a place to grow and live and the plants the water to survive. You helped form the clouds and cool the forest. But now it's over, you flow no more but our tears do. You may be dying but you will live through the animals and plants you've helped and the rain you've provided.
A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food.
Another “poor, hunger-starved beggar boy” is found in the street and carried into a house, where he dies.
A four-year-old local boy dies “for want of food and means,” as does his mother.
You hear the story of a man leaving his home and walking hundreds of miles in search of work or food and returning after a couple of months with sufficient money only to find that his wife and children have all since died.
These four are clear explicit examples of starvation during Elizabethian times, since England faced hard times during Elizabethian times, since the population grew larger by a third, and the resources stayed the same, they had to divide the same products between more people.
