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What is the narrator's dream?

And how does it help establish the setting? Chrysalids chapter 1

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He dreams of a modern city, complete with tall buildings, care, and aircraft. The author appears to live in a pre-industrial, agriculture based society that lacks the technology of the modern times. It sets the setting of the story in the future, yet in a state de-evolved from the present day.

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