"The Light In The Forest"

by Conrad Richter

The Light In The Forest is a book about choices, and how they affect you if you make the right one or the wrong one. In this story John is forced to make these different choices. At the age of four, John Butler is kidnapped by a tribe of hostile Indians. As the years passed, so did John's memory and he did not remember his real family.

Through the years, John gets renamed and is now addressed as, True Son. As True Son gets older he is getting accustomed to the Indian lifestyle. True Son gets reunited with his real family but has a hard time facing the fact that he is not Indian. Throughout the book True Son learns his true identity and the lies his Indian family told him are finally revealed.

In my opinion, this book could be hard to get into for some people, and for some readers it could get boring. It's also a shorter book than most books on the subject of Indians and settlers. The author could've gone into more detail about John's experience in the Indian lifestyle. Overall, it was decent book, but I wouldn't recommend it for readers who just want a good book, but I would recommend other books on this subject. For a complete list of my recommendations please follow this link.