Eunice Williams Chapter Summaries

The novel begins by introducing the main character, Eunice Williams. She a is a young girl living in a puritan, English town, in Massachusetts. Based in the early 1700’s, there is a war between the English and the French, in which the Native Americans from the north are aiding the French. Eunice has three brothers, two older and one younger, and two older sisters. Her father is the reverend of the town, and her mother stays at home. The town fears that the Native Americans will come and raid the town, so the Reverend insists that none of the children enter the surrounding woodland without adult supervision. We get a look into Eunice’s life in her small English town. Her chores consist of dying cloth, doing dished, babysitting younger children, …show more content…
He tells her that she can not come away with him yet, because her new family will not let him take her. He instructs her to keep up her puritan prayers, and to weary of the new things the priest is trying to teach her. Eunice becomes very ill, with scarlet fever, which makes her whole body feel rough and burning hot. Her family tends to her with ointment and washings. Soon, the whole tribe joins, singing and dancing around her, wishing her wellbeing. Her face is painted black, which she fears means she is dying. However, she recovers after several weeks, and the whole town celebrates her survival. From then on, she excepts her tribe name, A’onote, because she feels trying cared for and a part of the Mohawks. When the Green Corn festival arrives, to celebrate the beginning of summer, the whole tribe gathers. During this time, they also celebrate A’onote being officially adopted by her Mohawk family, and is given the name Gannestenawi. She learns that this was the name of her new family’s daughter, who had died from small pox several years before her coming. She is take this new name with honor, and to live on in her