The Theme Of Colonialism In Le Guin's The Word For World Is Forest

The book, The Word for World is Forest by Le Guin writes about colonization. In the book, people from Earth come to the planet Athshe to take the Athseans wood. Also, the humans from earth treat the Athsheans very poorly. Captain Davidson is one of the military leaders of the Earth people. Raj Lyubov is a specialist who tries to learn about the Athshean people. The Athsheans never learn to kill people until Davidson killed Selvers wife Thele. After Davidson kills some of the native Athsheans, the Athsheans rebel and begin to kill the humans from Earth. Selver is the Athshean who leads the rebellion against the Earth people. Le Guin uses The Word for World is Forest to show that Colonization is bad.
One place in the novel that shows that colonization
Also, the Athsheans in Cadast where looking after Selver and they tended his wounds. The Athsheans at Cadast were looking at Selver with terro. The Athsheans at Cadast wanted to hear Selver story on what happened to his town and his wife. Selver was explaining what happened to him and to the other Athseans in his town. Selver says, “ There presently the yumens came and began to cut down the world. They destroyed a city there, Penle. They caught a hundred of the men and women and made them serve them, and live in the pen” (40-41). In this quote it shows that colonization is bad because the yumens cut down the trees in the town. Also, the yumens were enslaving the Athsheans in Selver town. Also, they where keeping the Athsheans in pens and making them serve them. This is one place in the novel that shows that colonization is bad is because the yumens enslave the Athsheans at Selver town.. Another place in the novel that show colonization is bad is when Davidson take a group of men and kills the Athesheans. Davison was in the new island called New Java since the other island he worked on got destroyed. Major Muhamed is the one in charge on New Java and Muhamed alway follows the rules of the book. Also, Davison does not like Muhamed because he follows the rules that HQ gives them. So, Davison decide to have not follow the rules and gather a couple of men to go attack the Athsheans. In The Word for World
Those that tried to get out got jellied; that was the artistic part, waiting at the rat-holes for the little rats to come out, letting them think they’d made it, and the just frying them from the feet up so they made torches. (100)
This quote shows that colonization is bad when they killed the Athsheans. Davison takes a group of men to a near town of the Athsheans and starts to kill them one by one. Also, they were killing the Athsheans by spraying them with fire jelly which burn them. So, the Athsheans were running away with terror and hiding from the yumens but the yumens made them think they were safe and blast them with fire jelly when they pop