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The guidance and support from a father remains a necessity for a child to grow into a healthy adulthood. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, True Son, a white boy held captive by the Indians for eleven years, felt the influence of three fathers in his life, and each one impacted him in a different way: his biological father, Harry Butler; Cuyloga, and the Sun.
First, True Son’s biological father, Harry Butler raised True Son until he was four, and then again when True Son returned to his family at age fifteen. Harry Butler tried to teach True Son the white man’s way of life such as farming (Richter, 72), religion (Richter, 48) and, with the assistance of his wife, education (Richter, 48). Although Harry Butler wasn’t
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