Table of Contents
Who is the main character in The Light in the Forest?
Half Arrow
Wilson OwensCuylogaDel HardyJohn Cameron Butler
The Light in the Forest/Characters
Who is true sons real father?
Harry Butler True Son/Johnny’s white father, a pale, downcast landowner whose Paxton farmstead attests to wealth and success. While observing Johnny’s suffering from a mysterious fever, he blames himself for failing to guard against the Indian raid that carried True Son/Johnny from home for eleven years.
How does Uncle wilse feel about the Indians?
A radical white supremacist and leader of the infamous Paxton Boys, True Son’s large-set and powerful Uncle Wilse believes strongly in the extermination of the Indian race. His aggressive intolerance represents the racist attitudes of many white settlers of the eighteenth century.
Who is blackfish in The Light in the Forest?
Black Fish—Sumakek—is True Son’s maternal uncle in the Lenni Lenape tribe.
Who is comparable to True Son?
Uncle Wilse His aggressive intolerance represents the racist attitudes of many white settlers of the eighteenth century. Like his nephew True Son, Wilse is stubborn, passionate about his feelings, and willing to use violence against those he perceives as enemies. Read an in-depth analysis of Uncle Wilse.
Who is the red man in the forest?
Matthew Cross
Matthew Cross, also known as the Red Man or the Red Cannibal, is the primary (though mostly unseen) antagonist of The Forest. He is first seen at the plane crash, kidnapping the player’s son, Timmy.
Who is Bejance?
Bejance is an old black slave who works as a basket maker. Like True Son, he grew up with an Indian tribe, the Wyandottes of Virginia, and misses the freedom of his youth very much.
What has True Son lost by the end of the novel?
Outraged, the Indians hold a trial to determine True Son’s fate. True Son’s father steps in and spares his son’s life, but he banishes True Son from the tribe and his Indian family forever. At the end of the novel, True Son is back where he started, approaching the white side of the forest.
How old was the real son when Indians adopted?
fifteen-year-old
The fifteen-year-old boy was adopted eleven years ago by Cuyloga, a Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indian, in order to replace a child he had lost to “yellow vomit.” True Son believes that his Indian father took out all of his white blood and thoughts and replaced them with noble Indian blood, making True Son his child.
How does True Son act when he meets his birth father What do you think father and son feel at this moment?
For a moment True Son feels hopeful that his white father does not care about him, but shortly thereafter his father arrives on horseback and is led to his son. A chill runs through True Son’s body as he struggles to accept that the unimportant-looking person is his real father.
Does Del Hardy miss True Son?
When Del finally leaves True Son’s family to return to his troop, True Son misses him because he is the last person with which True Son can speak Lenni Lenape (Delaware).
How does True Son react to Del Hardy’s departure?
True Son finally speaks to his uncle through Del’s translation, angrily stating that his Indian father has showed him how Delaware is a rich language and that white men use some Delaware words.