The Light in the Forest
by Conrad Richter
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Author: Conrad RichterEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-14
ISBN: 1400077885
Number of pages: 192
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Vintage
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- ISBN13: 9781400077885
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Light in the Forest
Book Review: I still love this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm 47 years old, and I re-read this book last summer and I still love it. I particularly like how Richter portrayed the viewpoints of all characters realistically - and, of course, the final conflict of True Son, who has lived in both Native and European settler worlds and has emotional ties to both, is gut-wrenching. Also, having grown up around south-central Pennsylvania, and now living south of Pittsburgh, I appreciate the landscape through which the characters move.
This is most definitely not a book that will be appreciated by shallow readers, nor those who are emotionally and intellectually naive because of youth. The negative reviews that I've read on this page reflect that fact clearly. However, I've found myself going back to those books that I was forced to read in middle and high school - A Separate Peace, The Ox-Bow Incident, and the utterly magnificent Watership Down - and appreciating them for their depth and complexity.
Summary of The Light in the Forest
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.General Books
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