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Summary: An excellent story to learn from.
Review: I read this story when I was fourteen, I am thirty six now and it has inspired me all my life.I am now an artist who paints romantic frontier land scapes and this book with it`s beautiful descript ions of the frontier helped set me on that course. The people in my paintings are much like the char acters in the book,indians and frontier people struggling to co-exist in a wilderness paradise. Read this book,it will transport you back to a time that can only be found in your dreams.I particularly love the escape journey of True Son and Half Arrow back to the Muskingum and the wonderful descriptions of the sights they encount ered. Please remember to honor the earth as they did.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: I first read this book about five years ago, when I was ten, and last night I found myself flipping through it once again. When I read this book, my great interest in Native Americans was starting to blossom, and this book really taught me a lot. The story was told masterfully, and truthfully too. I was very moved by this book, and now that I would like to become a writer, it has been an inspiration to me as well. The beginning of the book is slightly confusing, which really makes the reader curious, and hooks you from the first moment. Now that I am learning a native language myself, I see that my introduction to the beautiful Lenni Lenape language was with this book. If you buy this book, you will never regret it. It is certain to stay one of my favourites (as well as being a good reference for me sometimes), and Conrad Richter is now an inspiration and role model to me of excellent writing. Miigwech, Conrad, for writing this book!
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Summary: I loved The Light in the Forest
Review: I was required to read this book in my 8th grade Reading class and I have loved it ever since. I have always loved reading about Native Americans and their tribes and this book was written very well. Some say it is confusing but it never was for me. I loved it and if you arre thinking about buying or reading it, do it!!
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Summary: This book was hard but fun to read.
Review: I think this would be a good book for eighth graders and up.
There were a lot of hard indian words, that made it confusing. My favorite part was when the book ended because it was sad and moving.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: Poor Conrad Richter. His literary fate is like that of Steinbeck's shorter works - read by 8th graders. When I mention Richter to my friends they think more of the Newberry than the Pulitzer Prize. Historical novelists are rarely thought of as having written "literature", yet that is what Richter wrote. Like Steinbeck, his style was simple and clear and strong. Like Steinbeck he understood the pain of being human. After reading one of his brief novels - they are often only about 200 pages - I wonder why other writers need so many more words. Richter did not think of himself as an historical novelist. He wrote instead to give a sense of how people experienced time past. Things happen in his novels, but the events are secondary to the perceptions, attitudes and (dare I say?) psychology. "The Light in the Forest" is a wonderful example of his work. Though it is about a teenage boy, it is not the "coming of age" or "rite or passage" story that it is often described as. It is about a person who lives in a world that has gone beyond his control - his life has been wrested from him by national and racial politics. His choices turn him into an American isolato. Very contemporary. The out-of-print and equally good companion novel "A Country of Strangers" pursues the same themes. Only in "Country" the protaganist is a white who has lived with the Indians and been returned to the whites. Like "Light" one of its virtues is to see through other's eyes. I wish I had the space to quote Stone Girl's dissection of Christianity. Maybe someday Richter will get his volume in the Libray of American and all his works will come back in print, including my favorite, "The Free Man".
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Summary: A very nice book
Review: The Light In The Forest, though dull at points is a very personal, very emotional book. A young boy, taken from his people at a very young age, is returned. He has been taught to hate all whites however and rebels from their ways. Escaping back to his people, a huge mistake sends him alone, with both sides hating him. Very good book, I'd reccommend it to most people.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I thought this book was one of the best ones I have ever set eyes on. The plot was full of on and of suspense. I would recommend this book to whoever has to or enjoys reading. The characters are very dramatic and dynamic. This is a must read novel by anyone who has the chance.
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Summary: An Exceptional Work
Review: The Light in the Forest is a novel that not only grabs one's attention but keeps it there during the educational process. Conrad Richter's The Light in the Forest should be read by everyone that has the chance. The personalities of True Son the main character, his family, friends and enemies makes this page turning. Conrad Richter combines history and literature in order to make this an enjoyable educational experience. This book is not directed towards male nor female but is appropriate for both. Threfore, this novel is an excellent choice for reading by all.
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Summary: A Tear Between Two Worlds
Review: This book has one of the best plots ever! It is about a young bog who was born in the high class world of rich people. He is however brought to the Indians, they raise him as their own.After being torn away from the Indians he rebels. Not knowing who to call his family this boy searches for life among frinds
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Summary: TRUE-SON MUST TRULY CHOOSE HIS OWN PATH
Review: This book is basically about a young white boy who grows up in an Indian tribe.
When the boy is about 13 or so the Indian tribe was told to let all the white captives go,and
the boy was one of those captives.Even though the boy does not want to go back he is forced too.
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