The two fiction novels - Blindness by Jose Saramago and The Chrysalids by John Wyndham explores the way humanity excludes and punishes the different

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The two fiction novels - Blindness by Jose Saramago and The Chrysalids

by John Wyndham explores the way humanity excludes and punishes the

different, while showing no compassion or remorse towards them. The

characters in these two books live through the most absurdly unjust of conditions
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and they are all able to prevail in these conditions; however, in both these

books, it shows that during times of adversity an individuals mind set/perspective

can change, and their worst and best parts of them will show.

The novel Blindness is about a city that is hit with an epidemic of white

blindness and it spares no one. This white blindness infects about 10 people at

first. The government has to quarantine everyone that is infected to prevent it

from spreading. They lock the ones infected ...

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