Amish Religion Analysis

The parallels that I can find between the Amish culture and the people of David’s society are that most persons from Waknuk follow the same traditions and are strictly believers of God. For instance Joseph Strorm only believes in those persons who have ten fingers, ten toes and have a normal features are only the creation of God. Those who are not of those similar features were considered to be mutants or devils in the disguise of a human being. The Amish culture follows the Amish religion, where the followers stay away from any kind of sin to attain salvation. My understanding of that phrase is that they should stay away from anything that can distract or make a person go along the wrong path. To me, this is an old fashioned way of

In the book, they are known as mutants, deviations and called blasphemy which is truly a racial disregard of calling a living human being. Since David and his society all live on a farm, the Amish people are somewhat similar. Because of their customs and beliefs, these persons attend church and always have time to spend with their families. Another thing I similarities of both Amish culture and the book is that there is shunning. In the Amish culture the shunning happens when a person marries someone from outside of their community and is immediately shunned, never to return and is not allowed to keep in contact with their family members and friends. This only happens in the book when a baby is born and happens to be a deviant then both mother and child should leave. Although Waknuk is seen to be a setting from the past but David’s society see to be of form the present, with mentions of airplanes and

David’s father Joseph Strorm was seen as the perfect example of this in the book. He was a racist, egoistical and selfish person who was always mean and wanted to kill those who were indifferent and possessed “evil things”. But unknowingly, did he know that his own son David and Gordon and daughter Petra were different as well. Gordon was called spider man because of his long arms, body full of hair and he was a deviant. He escaped from Waknuk by his mother and keeper as a young child because of his different features. Soon after he was known as the leader of the Fringes, which was a good thing for him. Joseph was like the leader of Waknuk and always made statement that any person who was born with any sort of extra features should be killed or immediately shunned from this society. There were mentions of hypocrisy in the book, with regards to those; the mothers who gave birth to more than three children who were all deviants were immediately punished by being shunned and never to return. For example, Aunt Harriet who was David’s mother sister, Emily gave birth to “mutants” three times and was worried of what will happen to her if her husband found out, and that he would have divorced her because of the law. She went by her sister Emily, to ask her