Symbolism, Setting, and Objects from The Light in the Forest

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Lenni Lenape Village - The village where True Son lives after being taken by the Indians.

Forks of Muskingum - The white army meets the Indians at this sacred place in the wilderness.

Fort Pitt - The army and the captives stop here on the way to Pennsylvania. To captives like True Son, it is a frightening place full of drunken soldiers, claustrophobic walls and Indian traitors.

Carlisle - The white army delivers the freed white captives to this white settlement, where relatives come to claim their newly returned kin.

Susquehanna River -...
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