The Light In The Forest: Analysis
Conrad Richter presents a historic fictional work describing the
colonial frontier in The Light in the Forest. True Son, born as John Butler,
was captured by the Lenni Lenape Indians at the age of four. He was adopted by
them and raised as the son of their chief, Cuyloga. He became a part of the
Indian culture. Later the Indians made a treaty with the whites and all white
captives were to be returned to their people, including 15-year-old True Son.
However, True Son had learned to hate the white men and their ways.
The Light in the Forest "enlightened" me in various ways. It
illustrates the spiritual relationship between Indians and nature as contrasted
to the whites attitude. ...
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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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