The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter :: The Light in the Forest

The Light in the Forest Conrad Richter presents a historic fictive work describing the colonial frontier in The Light in the Forest. avowedly Son, born as John Butler, was captu flushed 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 colors and all(a) white captives were to be returned to their people, including 15-year-old true up Son. However, True Son had learned to nauseate 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. Indians receive with nature, appreciating its beauty and enjoying its comfort while whites count to ignore the beauty and hold dear nature only according to its productive usefulness. In The Light in the Forest, whites, for example, cut down the forest and clear land for farming. I in addition was intrigued with how True Son spoke of his mother the Earth, his uncle the Moon, and his brother-in-law the Wind. In todays society we seem to concentrate on technology, while such oneness with nature is almost non-existent. As an author, Conrad Richter appears to be a skilled writer. I found legion(predicate) strengths and only two weaknesses. One strength was his use of strong optic images. "What he hungered for most was the sight of an Indian face again-his fathers, deep red, do like a hawks, used to riding the wind, always above the earth, allow nonhing small or of the village disturb him-his mothers, fresh and embrown yet indented with great arching cheek wrinkle born of laugh and smiling, framing the mouth, and across the forehead, horizontal lines like the Indian sign of lightning, not from laughing still from war and talk of war, from family cares and the strain of labor-and his sisters smooth immature moon faces, no t pale and sickly like the faces of white girls, but the rich blooming brown of the earth, their lively black eyes sounding 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. 53). Furthermore, Richter chooses point of posture wisely. He writes in omniscient point of view, but concentrates on True Son or Del Hardy, balancing the readers knowledge of both Indian and white life styles.