The Light in The Forest - Part III

The ending of the story was much more dramatic than I was expecting and it was appropriate even though it was a little bit of a letdown personally.  After living with the white people for a few months and you could clearly see how the white culture had slowly and forcefully changed True Son and pushed him out of many of his Indian radical beliefs. I thought that True Son would end up living with his white family permanently and he would eventually just get over his cultural struggles. Even though True Son frequently thought about abandoning his white family and running back to his Indian home, I did not think that he would actually leave, especially after he bonds with his white little brother. However, I did not predict that he would run away from the white civilization with his cousin. When he eventually reached his old Indian home, his adopted father Cuyloga, welcomed him back with open arms. After returning to his tribe and telling the others about his uncle and his men killing and scalping their young Indian friend, the tribe decides to attack the whites.  So the men from the tribe go to the white civilization and bring back the scalps of whites the next day and True Son is appalled to see that his people had scalped a child. After True Son gets over it, his people ask him to hide in the river and wait for a boat of white people to come to his rescue then when the white people try to save him the Indians will rush out and ambush the boat and kill everyone on it. When a ship finally comes down the river, True Son cries for help and tries to provoke the ship towards him. However, out of the water he glimpses a little boy who reminds him of his little white brother whom was innocent and he liked compared to the rest of his family. Then he hears a kind woman aboard the ship urging the men onboard to help him and he knows that they are also innocent. He could not bring himself to kill the people on the ship even if some of them were mad, he warns the whites that it’s an ambush and the whites survive. The end of the story was very dramatic because True Son’s tribe wants to kill him after his mistake. His father Cuyloga steps in and reminds the rest of the tribe that True Son did not harm anyone and that it is not his fault that his blood had been tainted by the whites. The end is also dramatic because his father forces True Son to leave the tribe and go back to white territory and never return to their tribe or he would be killed. The ending was good and definitely not predictable, but I wish that the story continued into what happened to him after he was exiled from the tribe.