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Title: The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter ISBN: 0-449-70437-8 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (141 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Read for a History Buff
Comment: 'The Light in The Forest' is a book about a young White boy from 18th century America who was born as a "frontier child" but was then stolen by Indians when very young and brought up as an Indian for ten years. His Indian name is True Son, and his white name is John Butler. When he is about 15 years old, he is forced to go back and live with his real White family. He is devastated because he was brought up to hate the Whites, and now he is being forced to live with them and to practice their culture. At first True Son refuses to comply at all with the Whites and tries to escape. After a while, and after spending much time with the Whites though, it seems that True Son is beginning to accept and become used to their culture, and is starting to lose his Indian ways. It looks as if all of the Indian in him has been run over and destroyed, when one night, he finds his old Indian friend / cousin and escapes with him from the Whites to a long journey back home to his old Indian town. It seems now that all the Indian he left behind has been renewed to him and most of what the whites forced into his head is gone when, with little warning, True Son must make a life-altering decision that will decide his fate, and that will decide what culture he is to live with.
I really enjoyed this book; it showed the conflict between whites and Indians in 18th century America very well. It was filled with action and adventure, and although short, it still developed the characters and the plot so that you had a broad understanding of what kind of decisions this young man had to make, how it must have been like being bounced from culture to culture (especially in that day), and how hard things must have been in general. This understanding of the character is what keeps you reading and keeps you itching to find out where fate will put John Butler/ True Son. I would recommend this book because of these reasons, and because of the way the author attacked the overlying conflict between Whites and Indians: he spoke of it from both the White's and the Indian's sides. Because of this the reader can understand the conflict from both sides, and can not easily pick a side to support, which made things interesting. Lastly, in my opinion, this book is quite unpredictable, and you can't tell how it will complete itself until the very end, which made the book more fun to read. If you enjoy history, and adventure you will probably enjoy this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not one of my favorites yet very interesting to read
Comment: "The Light in the Forest", written by writer Conrad Richter is a very famous Young Adult Fiction book written in 1953. The setting is in the wilderness of the early American frontier, during the time where the white people and Indians were not necessarily enemies, yet were wary and scared of each other. The main character in this book is True Son, his real name John Butler.
John Butler was only four years old when he was captured by the Lenni Lenape Indians. Instead of being killed, he was kept alive and adopted into the tribe by the warrior chief Cuyloga. John Butler is renamed True Son, and grows up to think, feel, and fight like an Indian. He does not remember anything of his life before he lived with the Indians, nor does he care because he hates the white people. Now he is fifteen years old and the Indians make a treaty with the white people, agreeing to return all white captives to their own people. True Son is very angry and does not want to return to his people. He thinks like all Indians that white people are evil and that the Indian way is the right way. He tries at first to hide but is soon caught and because he tries every opportunity to escape, they tie him up and bring him forcefully to Peshtank, or renamed Paxton by the white people. There he goes back to live with his real father, mother, aunt, and younger brother. But True Son despises all of his family and relatives, especially his narrow-minded uncle, Uncle Wilse, who believes that all of the 'savages' should be killed. Only True Son's younger brother, Gordie, is somewhat his friend. True Son feels like he is a captive living with his family, he does not agree with their ways and scorns them. But just as he was about to become settled down a little bit, Half Arrow, True Son's Indian cousin, comes to visit him with very bad tidings.
Like I said, this book is not really one of my favorite books to read, though really interesting. Also, when I read this book I fell so depressed thinking about how narrow-minded the people were back in early American history, both Indians and the white people. Yet that is why I think the book is very interesting because it describes well how life was back when the Indians and the white people were enemies. I do not think younger kids will enjoy this book much though I think that maybe older children should at least read "The Light in the Forest" one time.
Rating: 2
Summary: great book if you love to hate
Comment: I give the book 2 stars for being well written, but that's it. If you want to read something that encourages the sterotype that all white people are awful and the worst of the lot are white Christians than this is your book.
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