Today's society accepts differences, where as in the Chrysalides if you had any kind of visible difference, you did not receive a certificate, you were sterilized and sent to the margins. Conformity was the only way to have control over the people of Waknuck society and they didn't want mutants or deviations to take over. Another story about mutants is told in the film X-Men First Class, all normal people are afraid of them. They are afraid of what they can and could do and they had no way to control them without letting them out into the open. They would have to tell the government what they could do and the government would then decide whether or not they were too dangerous to the public. Waknuck society disliked individualism, just like in the Hunger Games. In the film, people were divided into districts and each year, to remind them why they were separated, they were given as tribute a male and a female from each district between the ages of 12 and 18. This happens because of the rebellion seventy-four years earlier and every year all twenty-four tributes must fight to the death until a single victor remains. In the Chrysalids they must keep their jobs in their district and report any deviants. They control conformity through and through historical beliefs, for example the only two remaining books of the "Old People" were the revised Bible to tell them what the true picture really is and the Repentances book. Additionally, Chrysalids talks about how conformity after devastation might not be the best idea. In The Hunger Games and Chrysalids the government can control the people in the districts by going back to a better time when it was simpler, so they are easier to conquer. ....half of the card...put them up if they are too dangerous. The government does it because they are afraid, just like the Chrysalides, they are afraid of differences and change. In The Hunger Games they are afraid of losing control of their perfect little world. Each of them describes why each way of handling a situation results in another form of disaster that lands you in the same place. One is to control your appearance, to control what you can and cannot do in your life, and to control yourself as a person due to a mutation. Finally, each of these three examples of conformity and fear is not a reason why we should fear or try to control differences after a tribulation. You should pick up where you left off and learn from your mistakes. As these three examples demonstrate, there is no right or wrong way to control people. Works cited note - page 10-11 - the chrysalises