Comparing True Son And The Light In The Forest

The Light in the Forest is about a white boy called True Son, who was captured by Lenni Lenape Indians at the age of four. The Indians made peace with the whites by returning all captured whites, even if they didn’t want to return. True Son was one of the Indian captives who didn’t want to return to his white family. When he met his white family (Harry, Myra, and Gordie Butler), True Son tried not to express his emotions like Cuyloga, his Indian father, taught him to, and not to show them like his white father.
There is also a movie about Light in the Forest, and there were many similarities with that and the book. One of them was that True Son’s Aunt Kate didn’t like Indians, and wanted him to have no Indian left in him. Another major similarity