The Light in the Forest

By: Conrad Richter

Narrated by: Joel Fabiani

Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

"Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons. The Light in the Forest, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Conrad Richter, will touch a new generation with its lasting truths.

©1981 Harvena Ritcher (P)1992 Recorded Books, LLC

The light in the forest

The narrator of this novel was giving precise and accurate feelings of the protagonist. And the other characters in the book. the feelings that true sun felt when walking through the forest or being with his native american family, hunting and fishing and the simple joy of everyday life. i first read this novel when I was in my teenage years. at first I didn't like the book because it had a very sad ending. i appreciate it more now because it shows the complexity of human nature. true, son after spending some time with his wife family and he saw the child on the raft. I was about to be ambushed by his Native American comrades.
Has compassion for these people and warns them away. evils were committed by both sides during this period of colonial america. sun may have betrayed his native american comrades, but he did it out of compassion for a the white settlers kid. he does it because gordy, his younger brother by his white family was the only really show him any kindness. his white family automatically expected him to behave like a colonial white settler. And punished him for when he was slow to reintegrate into their way of life. there is an upside Conrad. Riker wrote a second book called a country of strangers, which is a companion novel. Two light on the forest. it is similar to light on the force following the trials of stone girl and her half white half native american sun, who are returned to white civilization after spending time and captivity. on the inside jacket of the book Conrad. Riker writes that in the latter pages of a country of strangers the readers might have an answer what happened to truesn at the end of the light of the forest. i hope audible decides to make a audio book of this as well.

The well written characters & story.

I liked everything about it really. I’m surprised still that I’ve come to know & appreciate Conrad Richter so late in my life. What a timely treasure his books are to me now.

Good over all

hard to follow at first but eventually you get soaked into the story. Not a bad read.

Magnificent heartbreak.

An exceptional story of the collision of two worlds and two cultures that was the colonial frontier.

Very engaging my mind didn’t wander !

I could feel and see what the author was writing/speaking as if it was a movie-the native tongue was spoken perfectly ,poetic.

Short, but it packs a punch!

What great lessons are to be learned from this story. I think I could become a Conrad Richter fan. This book had so much to say in a short time, and it left the drawing of morals up to the reader. The young protagonist of this story, True Son, was left in the middle of the whole mess, not knowing which way to turn. It was brilliantly written

Early America in Check

This book brings the view of the author towards early American inhabitants, who were taken by Indians and adopted into the tribe. These children, later returned to the white people, longed to go back to their Indian families, and this conflict is well written in a very involving manner here.
This book brings many reflections upon our moral values, and the hypocritical world in which we live today.
I just feel as if the protagonist's story was left incomplete. Disappointing.

great book

It is a great children s book I am reading and I am in 6th grade

Enjoyed

this book immensely! The notions of the early American past are not so easily understood until you get the stories and this helps. Buy it!

Wrong story

This is not the right story at all. I wanted to read along with my book and it's not even the right book.