Things Fall Apart & The Light in the Forest
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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Things Fall Apart & The Light in the Forest
John Fecunda
The Light in the Forest takes place in 1764 and is about John Butler, He was taken as a boy from his parents by the Lenni Lenape Indians. John Butler has lived with the Lenni Lenape in Ohio for eleven years. His Lenape father, Cuyloga, renamed him True Son, and he is accepted as a full-blooded Lenape by the community.
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The Lenni Lenape Indians, along with many other Native Americans, signed a peace treaty. The treaty stated that True Son had to be returned to his biological family and True Son must overcome racism while in his new home.
Things Fall Apart takes place in Nigeria in the late 1800's. Okonkwo is a respected leader in the Umuofia tribe of the Igbo people. From an early age, he builds his home and reputation as a good wrestler and hard-working farmer. Okonkwo’s efforts pay off: his crops thrive and he has three wives.
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"They hated to give them up all right. But they hated worse to see a white man's town a settin' there on the banks of their own river...They were scared we were takin' over the country. So they started fetchin' in their white relations." Chapter 2, p. 12
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