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Light In The Forest Analysis
Light in the Forest

The book Light in the Forest is about a boy that was born from a white family but raised by Indians. His name is True Son and he was forced to go back to his white family after 13 years. The town the white folk lives in is called Fort Pitt. But, most of the story is in the woods. The main characters are True Son, Cuyloga, Del Hardy, Uncle Wilse, Harry Butler (White Father), and Half Arrow (Indian Cousin.
You might have known that there was a movie. Also, if you did watch the movie there were some similarities. One of the similarities was the True Son are some other white captives were sent back to the white people. Another one was that True Son wanted to kill himself instead of going back to the white people.
Since there

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