Ty In Things Fall Apart

Parents have the most impact on who their children become as a person. In Things Fall Apart a book written by Chinua Achebe, the main character, Okonkwo, lives with a sacred past that leaves him with the choices he then made and continues to make. In Stolen written by Lucy Christopher, one of the main characters, Ty, unlike Okonkwo eventually confronts his problems and is willing to change. Okonkwo blames his father for his childhood and grows up wanting to be the complete opposite of him. “Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness, and even now he still remembers how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken no title.” (Achebe, 13) Okonkwo thought of his father as weak and lazy because of the memories
In the book it summarizes how Ty had “grown up” on a farm in Australia with his father who then let drugs and booze leaving Ty at the farm by himself and never coming back. That lead to Ty being put into child protective services where he refused to grow up and cooperate with any administrators. He grew up not knowing what love was since his mother was never in the picture since the beginning and his only parental figure left him to be alone, he didn’t know his rights from his wrongs. Secondly, Ty figures that since he had been stalking Jemma since she was just 10 years old that she had been growing up with the same struggles that he had in his childhood which lead him to kidnapping her and bringing her to an empty farm so they could live a free open life in an empty environment. Ty is believed to be traumatized from his past leaving him mentally unstable causing him to kidnap Jemma because of the love and support he was not given he tries to build that empty hole in his body with “love” from Jemma. Since he had raised himself, his actions relate to his