True Son Research Paper

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True Son deserved the sentence his father gave him because of the laws True Son had broken. True son was ungrateful, cruel, and disrespectful in all his choices. These actions make such a sentence of being banned just and not overly harsh. Cuyloga made the right choice in banning True Son for the acts he committed because of disrespect, ungratefulness, and cruelness. True Sons sentence was not just but deserved and there are many reflective reason that prove True Sons sentence was wright.
True son is an ungrateful individual who lets emotions and beliefs control what he wants. Cuyloga, True Sons father punishes him for being ungrateful because he harmed innocent people. True Son shows his ungratefulness to his family when
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To prove my argument of what he did to his uncle Wilse was cruel. For one reason True son tried to scalp his uncle “ Half Arrow gave him his tomahawk and the two set to work together, one cutting, one hacking. At the pain…” (Conrad, Richter pg. 83) True Son treats Elder Parson cruel when True Son is offered rum by making fun of white people and saying cruel things “my father told me why white people give rum to the Indian,” the boy answered. “Get indian drunk. Buy his fur cheap. Afterward Indian gets sober. Has no money. No furs, no nothing, hates white people. Kills them someday…” (Conrad, Richter pg. 62) True Sons cruelty proves my point that he would rather kill white people than give them a chance and build a relationship. This is why he deserved his sentence. True Sons actions may be viewed as self-defense or him doing what he was taught as okay. That can be arguable because true sons sentence of being banished would probably not of been an option. True Son was banished because Cuyloga said “if you come back, I cannot receive you and they will kill you.” (Conrad, Richter pg. 119) True son was viewed as a spy and was viewed as an enemy to the Lenape, therefore Cuyloga had to banish him” I hear that my son is a spy from the whites, that his tongue is the fork of a tree and his heart black…” (Conrad, Richter pg. 116) True Son was cruel and he may have been disrespectful, cruel, and ungrateful but Cuyloga …show more content…
Tue Son was viewed as a spy and a danger to the Lenape. True sons disrespect led him to do harsh things, such as: trying to scalp his uncle, stealing from his family and many other reasons. True Son may not have felt being banished was fair but it was running from home which sparked suspicion by the Lenape council. Disrespect, cruelty, and ungratefulness show the type of character True Son is and that True Sons sentence is not just but is the best choice

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