Short Story On The Forest

The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter is a story about a young white boy named John Butler, also known as True Son. He is taken by Indians when he is four years old. After being raised by Indians, white soldiers come to return him home. Unfortunately, for John, he doesn’t want to leave. He does not want to live with people he considers his enemy. During the journey, back to civilization, John resists to be controlled by the white soldiers and expresses deep levels of hatred toward them. Along the way, his favorite cousin, Half Arrow, catches up to him and accompanies the rest of the journey. When the group reaches a certain point, Half Arrow is forced to leave. John realizes that might be the last time he ever sees his cousin.

The Light in the Forest, a story by Conrad Richter, portrays a 15-year-old boy born to White people, but captured and raised by Indians. This creates many interesting perspectives from both Whites and Indians, and how they view god, nature, life, and each other. Prior to this I had never read a book with both perspectives. It takes place in Pennsylvania near the area of Fort Pitt during the French and Indian War. When he was just 4 years old, John Butler was captured by the Tuscarawas tribe during an ambush. He was renamed True Son by the leader of the tribe, Cuyloga, and raised like an Indian. When True Son was 15 years old, it was announced that he, along with other captives were going to be returned to their real families. During the trip,

In the short story “The Thing in the Forest” by A.S Byatt, the author introduces the thing as dark, ominous and has a very putrid smell that is almost like a representation of death. The thing in the forest lurks and wanders around the forest next to a house filled with children that have been sent there because they have been evacuated from their town. I believe that the thing represents or would symbolize many things, and also considering the time frame the story was written in pre-world war era I would say that the story probably represent the death or the decay of the men that fought in the war. Also I believe that the thing symbolizes something literal like an injured soldier that tried to get the attention of the girls that wandered the forest. Lastly, In parts of the story I gives you some indication of the thing and it makes the thing sound like it might be any army closing in on a country or city cause the thing came in “waves”. So the thing might be a wave of scary putrid smelling soldiers that sound and looks like death.

Caleb walk in front of the group and asked everyone individually, “ let's take a vote to go in the forest or to head back the way we came” they took the vote and going through the forest won so they started off into the forest and Daniel hesitated but walked in,afraid of being left alone at the mouth of the forest. The

As I walked, the air of this haunted, dreadful and sorrowful land had sucked the life out of everything and roared as humanity began to disappear. As I carried on walking, I noticed that the small fraction of light was getting smaller and smaller, until it had been engulfed into a think black ash like smoke. Aggressively, the wind walked past the building with its cruddy feeling, blowing away all signs of life. Deeper and deeper into the land was a burning car door. The fire roared and crackled. The roaring and crackling of the burning car door merged with the aggressive air and created the loudest sounds ever heard on land. Growing darker, the skies made me feel nauseous. The fear of not waking up if a human fell asleep towered

I saw a few other small houses. Most looked pretty empty, almost like everyone just got up and left. Finally I got to town and immediately noticed a large bonfire in the town square. It was large and gave off a horrid and foul smell. I looked closer and saw that sticking out of the pile was… a hand. I saw shapes all around the fire that looked like people or body parts. My god, why were they burning bodies, I turned and bumped into a man. I started to apologies but then he stumbled and fell at my feet and coughed horribly. I saw a giant mass on his neck it looked kind of like a meatball, but it had puss leaking out of it. I looked around at everyone in town and saw that nearly everyone had it. God, it was the plague and it had already spread to this town. I felt a sense of terror fill my body, what if I catch it I thought. I ran. I didn’t want to, I wanted to find help for my mother, but I was so scared. So I ran, I ran until my legs felt like they had glass in their bones and I kept running after that, as if the plague was a physical creature that could chase me and catch me if I slowed. I finally got home and saw my father in

“The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain” (3). This is a perfect description of the setting. It contains the hopelessness that people felt during that

“The community broke into complete chaos. Everybody and everything was out of order. When the wave of painful memories hit, the people dropped to the floor and held their heads in excruciating pain. We should have thought this through more carefully Jonas. I would never have believed that such anarchy could become in such a peaceful community. But the memories were too harsh. Riots were started. Fires burnt down the buildings. Some jumped into the river and died just

“The Thing in The Forest” by A. S. Byatt is a short story that takes place in London, it is about two girls who were send away by their parents with no clue why they were send, is it a punishment or vacation. The two girls become friends as soon as they met each other and they were always together and did not want anyone to be friends with them because when Alys wanted to be friend with them they did not let her become their friend. One day when they went to the forest they did not let Alys some with them and that’s when she disappeared in the forest and nobody knows why and how she disappeared. When you read the whole story “The Thing in The Forest”, you will start questioning yourself these questions the following questions: do the thing is really exist or the two girls are imagining it? Did the boys that the girls named them ‘the gang’ did something bad to Alys and the two girls witnessed it or was it a soldier? Was Alys doing something bad or witnessed something that caused her death?

“Yes, let's go,” Lesly says as she pulls my arm towards the tree. Lesly grabs me by my feet to help me boost up to the tree. I start looking around my surroundings and I realized there was so

I walked to it and tried prying it from the ground with my fingers. A twig broke behind me and I jumped and spun around. It was dark now and the only light was from the full moon. I had a bad feeling start to pump through me. I turned and ran trying to evacuate the danger I felt nearby. I ran through brush that looked like claws trying to grab my ankles. And as tree limbs came down snatching at my skin I tripped and fell. I saw a tree nearby that looked welcoming and I tried to use it as cover. Black wings busted through the trees and run started echoing around me in a croaked out a raspy breath.

Suddenly I gain consciousness. Unable to open my eyes, I feel a cluster of dried sticks poking my back as if I was lying on a bed covered by pins. A constant ringing noise almost blankets the sound of the leaves dancing with the wind around me. With a gentle sigh I allow myself to build enough energy for me to open an eye. My eye began to follow a path towards the only light source it sees, the fire from a wooden torch gripped with my left hand. I open my other eye and began to force my lean body to a kneeling position. The smell of decomposing leaves irritates my nose as I gaze at the identical oak trees surrounding me like a wall of armoured gladiators. Using my wrinkled hands and injured legs I crawl towards

My heart sank like a bottomless ocean. I was standing there is shock and just wanted to wake up from this horrible dream.Then Hilda, Beatrice, Tzipora and me started walking away from Elie and Shlomo.This is when I could hear Elie and Sholom leaving me forever.Slowly disappearing into the gray, dark and gloomy fog.They were are gone forever. ”Mother.Where are we going.”I don't know.”After all of the sudden, I could see a pile of pale and skinny dead people.That was one of the most disgusting things that I have seen.I could see flies and dogs feeding on their corpses like their food.Then I could see smoke coming from a tall and dark chimney from an old, abandoned building. ”Is that...the...the…,”What do you want to say? .It's the crematoria.We can't go.’They can't take you guys away from me

The sun is high above me and I walk into the forest in front of me,

It was a calm, overcast day, and I found myself resting at the side of a large oak tree, admiring the beauty of the woods that surrounded me.