The Village Case

In the modern state of Pennsylvania, a community of people thrived in the Covington woods. Their lifestyle is not like ours. They live like it’s the 1900’s. They do not need to trade or communicate with the outside world because they have everything they need to eat from farming (agrarian economy). They have the woods from the forest to create shelter, and wool and other materials which they can collect from their livestock. In their community they have people varied from every age. The populations of this small group of people are made up from senior members to small infants (toddlers).

In the village these people are governed by an Oligarchy and Republic systems because in this system people do not really choose who rules over them and many other restrictions. So this makes them not fully a republic government. The Council of Elders makes all the decisions and they have the supreme control over the government, the villagers ask for both advice and permission to enter the forest (this is one of the restrictions). The Council of Elders had lived in our world, and escaped/separated themselves because each had suffered a violent loss to a close family member. The Elders view the outside world as evil and wanted to be separated from it as soon as possible. In my view, the Elders do have the right to be irritated at the evil parts of the world but they’ve got to give it a second chance and try to look for the positive ends.

The council of Elders then created their society in the Covington woods. The Council of Elders were smart enough to fool their villagers in believing that in the woods thrives “creatures we do not speak of” and to keep them from entering their town they have told the villagers that they have created a truce with the creatures and the only rule is that The creatures do not enter the village as long as the villagers do not enter the woods. In several occasions we have witnessed Mr. Walker and the other council members argue that they aim to protect the “innocence”. The innocence is the fact that they believe the villagers did/will not create crimes. They make sure by not connecting with the outside world and taking away their innocence. But there is no perfect world and they find out soon enough.

One of the Council of Elders’ members Edward Walker was probably the main originator of the Walker Preserve “the village”. Ivy Walker, her daughter who is blind is one of the key