The light in the forest is a book about a half Indian boy. His Indian name is True Son and his white name is John Cameron Butler. In this book True Son is given back to the whites after living with the Lenni Lenape Indians for eleven years. True Son doesn’t like being with the whites and throughout the book devises ways to get back to the Indians. There are many similarities between the book and the movie. One such similarity is that in the beginning, True Son planned on killing himself so he did not have to go back to the whites. In both the book and the movie this plan was not successful. One more similarity is that the Paxton Boys killed and scalped the Conestoga Indians. Another similarity is that Little Crane was killed and scalped by
