The Light in the Forest

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Summary: What a Book?
Review: I have read the most awesome book on the planet. Transtition can be very hard especially for True Son/John. A young man born in a white race but raise by the a tribe of indians. Now that true son iss return back to his biological culture he is like he woke up from a cooma in a new environment.He is very confuse after seeing his father in the house doing what he think is femine. At the end both of the sides his family is deserting him.

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Summary: Not bad at all!
Review: Great story! This story is about an American Boy named John (TRUE SON) who was raised by Indians. He was kidnapped by them at the age of 4, and now, 10 yrs later, the whites are making him return to his real parents. It took him a while to adopt to his real enviroment. He thought his Dad was a "wuzz" and he hated his clothes, specially knowing there were his cousins. After that, his indian customs and knowledge he had gained by his indian father (Cuyloga) were long gone..... until, one night, he escaped with his cousin... to a long journey back home.

This story is good, specially for young adult such as myself because it reflects the hard decitions a kid that age had to do. Regardles of his age, (15), True son was very wise.

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Summary: When Two Cultures Collide
Review: At a very short age, Jhon Butler was adopted by the Indians after circumstances of Colonial-Indian Wars. They gave him the name of True Son. After many years living with the Indian people he then started to adopt a new style of life. True Son was like a true member of the Indians ,and a real son to Cuyloga, a Delaware Indian. Everything changed after new circumstances required True Son to repatriated to his English settlers relatives. He had to go back with his real family. He was taken away from the Indians to start a new complicated life, full of adventure. Jhon Butler thought this new way of life was not appropriate for him. He could not be freed of his savage thoughts. This made it very complicated to get used to a new a culture.

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Summary: ok book
Review: The Light In The Forest is a goood book that really deserves a good 4 stars because of the suffering that True Son went through in the story.when True Son was taken by the indian called Cuyloga little did the kid know was that later he would be confuse which kind did he belong to the white or the indians.This bookreally got to me because this kind of things happen to kids and adults in every day life.

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Summary: The Light in The Forest
Review: The Light in The Forset is an interesting book about a white boy who is captured at a young age by the Lenni Lenape Indians. Cuyloga,True Son's adoptive father,teaches him everything he needs to know. After many years with the indians,the whitepeople demand all white captives back. True Son goes back to his real family.He doesn't like it with his real family, so he escapes when they tell him that TRue Son's uncle has killed a indian. At the end TRue Son is betrayed and almost killed.

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Summary: It was good
Review: The Light in the Forest was about a white boy who was adopted and raised by Indians. His indian name is True Son. He meets his real father after years and doesn't belive that it's his dad. Once he is with his white family he plans an escape to go back to his Indian family. When True Son gets back with them, he makes the Indians betray him and they disown him forever. I think it was a good book.

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Summary: The Light in The Forest
Review: I think that it was a pretty interesting book. The way that TRUE SON was adopted by some white people and he was like the total opposite of them. He is an Indian who originally lived with his Indian family. It was cool they way he thought that his white dad was like a female. His Indian father was sort of a hero to TRUE SON and to see his new father stay at home and do women work, such as writing.

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Summary: my review for the light in the forest
Review: i really like this book. i think it was a good book. this boy was adopted by indians but his actual parents were white. he didn't believe his father when he said that it was him because of his father being white. i really haven't understoood why they adopted him but now i understand it more. i think it is one of the best books i have read. this is my review on the light in the forest.

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Summary: Not bad
Review: We start out following True Son as he is returned to his family after being a captive of the Indians. We see him go from being secure in his Indian upbringing and the ways he has been taught to watching him become aware of the true world around him. We are caught with him as he struggles to decide right from wrong.

This story gives some shocks to the system. The sudden and seemingly needless violence did bother me, but it was important for it to happen. We see the Indians and the Whites saying and acting in almost the same fashion in regards to each other, yet all the while talking down about the other's ways.

The only thing that kept me from enjoying this book was that I couldn't seem to get ahold of True Son and feel what he felt. I was being told a story, not experiencing it.

Some people have mentioned that this book is sometimes assigned in school. I can see the reason for it, but I'm not sure that it is something younger people could grasp without being upset.

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Summary: Awful
Review: I hate to be redundant, but I thought this book was awful. The story is about True Son, a white boy captured by the Lenni lenape indians and then reclaimed by his white family 11 years later.
There are numerous reasons why this book isn't a good choice to force middle school students to read. (I say force because I don't know anyone, even avid readers such as myself, who would choose to read this.) The book is violent (and yet without action), it is boring, most of the characters are unlikable (and you can't like them for their unlikableness like you can with some "villians"), and let me say that if I were Native American, I would be offended reading this book. For two reasons; first, the Native Americans in this book call themselves Indians -- where as it wasn't the NA's who coined that term but Columbus, -- and second, although this is a historical fact that shouldn't be ignored, I don't think we need to read fiction about people who think the NA's were savages and killed them like flies.

If school is intended to encourage us to read and learn, I have no idea why they would choose a book like this. It makes books seem boring and unrelated to teenagers. I think they should choose books that are interesting -- give us a break from textbook historical fiction.