Book Review Rough Draft
Title of Book: The Light in the Forest
Author: Conrad Richter
MLA Citation: Richter, Conrad, and Richard Zahner. The Light in the Forest. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. Print.
Young 15-year-old teenager, John Butler, was taken from his family as a youngling and adopted into the hands of an Indian tribe. He now is being forced to move back with his American family to which he doesn’t know their ways of life or even their language. As this report goes on, True Son, a.k.a. John Butler, shows his old (yet new) family what he has learned from being in his tribe. The Light in the Forest is a terrific novel because the author shows how one character can change the lives of many others throughout a difficult
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True Son was going to kill a white man and steal his supplies but his father found him, and beat him to show how he could’ve hurt a lot more than just that man. During the end of chapter 1, leading into chapter 2, the author explains the thoughts that True Son was having when he found the man. They were very detailed and very gruesome, as well.
Quote: pgs. 5-11: Instantly True Son turned and lay on his face again. Inside of him hate rose like a poison. “Once my hands are loose, I’ll get his knife,” he promised himself. “Then quickly I’ll kill him.”
IV. Point #3-Topic Sentence: The white settlers are mistreating the slaves and are abusing them as if they are ragged dolls.
Evidence: White men make the indians feel in the novel that they are inferior by enslaving them, beating them, and using them to go do the dangerous things they don’t feel like doing.
Quote: pgs 110-114 and throughout chapters 1, 2, and 3: “We’ll make them pay by the good ole treatment, but for now, those who aren’t working are to be considered labor.
V. Conclusion-Summarize main point made throughout paper and restate thesis statement.
During this novel, True Son helps the two races see how they are no different from each other and how they can be together as long as everyone has similar
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the reality of a racist society. He must also discover for himself that his father is wrong
‘Clan Of The Cave Bear’ By Jean Auel Jean Auel wrote the book by the name of the “Clan of the cave bear” and it has been hailed as one of the bets pieces of all times. It was so good that even a movie has been made on the story line and much of the success of the movie can be accredited to the success of the book itself. The story is basically about this woman and her struggles in life and it is very broad because the story develops over the years and it encompasses a number of other characters and happenings in her life. It is about how things shape out in her life and many a reader may get the impression that it is herself that she is talking about and that she went through the similar period of turmoil and trouble in her own times. Life can be a funny thing and as the title of the play suggests that it is about a family which in this case is the family of the bear or his clan and the story deals with their lives and developments over the years. The story begins like any common novel but the way in which the language and expression can be felt is very deep rooted and the impact is very deep. It is able to interact with the people and the human values and human touch has been emphasized by the writer. She feels that the best way to interact with the reader is by giving them something that is new to them. Humane touch and the human element is something that has been missing in the books of recent times and that is what makes the American writers peculiar because their level of interaction and their inclusion of the human values in their works are very pronounced. The main character in the book is a female who is left stranded after a disaster and she is at a loss of words because she is still in her tender age. She is so young t...
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“Now go like an Indian True Son. Give me no more shame.” The light in the forest is a historical fiction novel that tells the story of a young boy who resents being returned to his natural parents. John Butler was at the tender age of 4 when Delaware Indians captured him during a raid on his father’s farm in western Pennsylvania. Adopted by a tribal chief and renamed True Son, he lived for more than a decade in the Ohio wilderness until Colonel Bouquet’s treaty with the Delaware Indians called for reparation of all white captives. On True Son’s reluctant journey to the Paxton settlement, he sees an ancient sycamore that symbolizes his predicament. A dead limb points to the white settlement, while a live branch points back to his beloved Indian culture. The conflict in this story turns on these two claims to his loyalty.
Growing up Black Elk and his friends were already playing the games of killing the whites and they waited impatiently to kill and scalp the first Wasichu, and bring the scalp to the village showing how strong and brave they were. One could only imagine what were the reasons that Indians were bloody-minded and brutal to the whites. After seeing their own villages, where...
Throughout American history, a recurring theme of white people believing in the superiority of their race exists. This includes the treatment they imposed on Native Americans from the beginning of Amercia all way through the 19th century. Although Native Americans attempted to help the white people in their time of need, throughout history, the white people would continuously take advantage of Native Americans living in what would become the United States. For example, the United States would pass legislation that would disturb Native American tribes, abuse Native Americans little understanding of English, attempt multiple times to assimilate them into their society, and defend their wrongdoings by using religion or the concept of Manifest
In Thomas King’s novel, The Inconvenient Indian, the story of North America’s history is discussed from his original viewpoint and perspective. In his first chapter, “Forgetting Columbus,” he voices his opinion about how he feel towards the way white people have told America’s history and portraying it as an adventurous tale of triumph, strength and freedom. King hunts down the evidence needed to reveal more facts on the controversial relationship between the whites and natives and how it has affected the culture of Americans. Mainly untangling the confusion between the idea of Native Americans being savages and whites constantly reigning in glory. He exposes the truth about how Native Americans were treated and how their actual stories were
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According to Deloria, there are many misconceptions pertaining to the Indians. He amusingly tells of the common White practice of ...
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While the father hopes for a sanctuary, the boy wants more good guys in the world. Several times in their journey, the boy asks the man if they still are the good guys because that is what he is concerned with most (McCarthy 77,129). The son believes that if they are able to remain good then there must be other good ones out there as well. Kunsa explains that the hope for more good guys "propels the characters through the ashen landscape" (5). As the novel progresses, the boy's assumption that there are other people develops to a more convicted level of hope. Towards the end of the book, the boy expresses his hope when he says, "There could be people alive someplace else," to which the man replies, with some hesitation, "There are people and we'll find them" (McCarthy 244). With each reiterated inquiry about human existence, the son's positivity increases until he convinces the man to confirm his