In Conrad Richter's work, The Light In The Forest, the main focus are two main characters, True Son, or John Cameron Butler, and Del Hardy. Richter's omniscient narrator presents each of their perspectives without making explicit judgments. True Son, the protagonist, is a fifteen-year-old teenager whereas Del is a twenty-year-old soldier. There are many other distinctions between these two characters. Regardless of these characters being different and having discrete view points, they are very much the same.

True Son throughout the four years he spent with his white family and eleven years he spent with his Indian family has a problem with his identity. He was born white, raised by a tribe of Delaware Indians, and was caught between the two cultures. At the outset of the novel, True Son is forced to go back to the white family from which he was born to and kidnapped from...