The Light in The forest

Conrad Richter

Three times that day the boy tried to get the

root of the May apple. His white guard, Del, gave

him no chance. When he went from the council

house, the guard kept hold of him like a haltered

beast. He would have to wait till he was on the

march. Some time tomorrow they would pass

through a wooded meadow. At the place of the

May apple he would fall to the ground. When they

Lifted him up, he would have the death medicine

in his hands.

The authors subject is about the boy, and how no matter what he would rather die instead of meet his real parents, the 'evil whites who killed his ancestors'. I think the purpose of this paragraph is to show you the boy is loyal to his Indian parents, and that the child has only know his Indian parents and doesn't want to be some white mans child. I am not sure what type of audience this writer had in mind, but I think he meant it for teens or maybe even younger kids to show some of the situations we first met when discovering America. I understand the boys actions, I know I would not want to be separated from my parents. If it were a case of having two sets of parents I would want the option to pick who I decide to live with, and not the decision made for me. I so far like this book and hope in the end the boy gets to be with whio he wants to be with.