How “The Village” Illustrates Isolated, Fear-Based Homeschooling

“Forgive us for our silly lies, Ivy, they were not meant to harm.” No, it was not meant to harm. But it did.

My Mind Wasn’t Lost, I Had PTSD: By Susannah

“Like the society in Shyamalan’s ‘The Village’, the world I was raised in had been hemmed in by fears: fear of God, fear of Satan, fear of persecution, fear of government control, fear of strangers or nosy neighbors, fear of vaccines and unhealthy foods, fear of ourselves. Though I had left that world years earlier, the patterns of anxiety were worn deep in my psyche.”