Sparknotes The Light In The Forest

The Light in the Forest is about True Son, a white boy, who was captured by the Indians at the age of four. Cuyloga, the chief of the Lenni Lenape, took True Son in and made him his son. Now, True Son is forced to leave his Indian home and go live with his enemies, the whites. He does not go down without a fight. When True Son is handed off to the white people, he fights to get away. When he is marching to his white home in the Paxton Township, True Son thinks about eating the root of the May apple, doing this would have killed him. Half Arrow and Little Crane, True Son’s friends, walked with him right up until they got to the river, which they could not pass.
When True Son get’s to his white home he meets his family. His white mother Mira who is an invalid housewife, his father Henry Butler, and his little brother Gordy. His white family decides to get a homecoming party in honor of True Son. At that homecoming True Son meets his Uncle Wilse. Uncle Wilse is apart of the Paxton boys, who have killed many Native American people. True Son gets into a heated argument with Uncle Wilse, in the end, True Son gets slapped.
When Half Arrow and Little Crane come back to True Son in his white family’s town, Little Crane gets shot and killed by the white people. This brings True Son and Half Arrow to halfway scalp his Uncle, who …show more content…
When the Lenni Lenape learned that Little Crane died by the hands of the whites, they go into full-on war mode. When they reach a river the whites travel upon, they tell True Son to wade out into the river in white man's clothes. He yelled at the white men and women to come and save him from the treacherous waters. When the white men come closer to the shore, True Son found that he could not do this. He could not let all these innocent people die just because they lived on there land. He told the whites to fall back, that it was an