The Light In The Forest: Analysis

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an author, Conrad Richter appears to be a skilled writer. I found
numerous strengths and only two weaknesses. One strength was his use of strong
visual images. "What he hungered for most was the sight of an Indian face
again-his father's, deep red, shaped like a hawk's, used to riding the wind,
always above the earth, letting nothing small or of the village disturb him-his
mother's, fresh and brown yet indented with great arching cheek wrinkle born of
laughing and smiling, framing the mouth, and across the forehead, horizontal
lines like the Indian sign of lightning, not from laughing but from war and talk
of war, from family cares and the strain of labor-and his sister's smooth young
moon faces, not pale and sickly like the faces of white girls, but the rich
blooming brown of the earth, their lively black eyes looking out from under the
blackest and heaviest of hair, always wit touches of some bright red cloth that
set them off and made them handsome" (p. ...

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