By James Fenimore Cooper
Through the fierce French and Indian wars, an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his spouse Chingachgook weave in the course of the staggering and unsafe barren region of upstate long island, struggling with to avoid wasting the attractive Munro sisters from the Huron renegade Magua.
The final of the Mohicans is the most well-liked of James Fenimore Cooper’s 5 Leatherstocking Tales. With its death-defying chases and teeth-clenching suspense, this American vintage verified many archetypes of yank frontier fiction.
An engrossing “Western” via America’s first nice novelist, The final of the Mohicans is a narrative of survival and treachery, love and deliverance.
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The novel does repeatedly associate Hawkeye with killing. 舡 Two chapters later he insists on killing a young colt. 舡 Tellingly, when at the Delaware camp there is a moment of doubt about which of two white men really is 舠La Longue Carabine,舡 Hawkeye舗s Mingo name, the question is settled with that same 舠long rifle舡: His identity is inseparably bound up with his ability to shoot and kill. There can be no doubt, then, that Hawkeye is a killer, but that is only half of the story that Cooper is telling about him in the novel.
These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people,2 as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it. The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself; and while his cheekbones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.
These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people,2 as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it. The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself; and while his cheekbones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.