Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury.
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister ‘Indian runner’, they find help in the person of Hawkeye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe.
Cooper’s novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 5/5
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Summary
From: Isaac
Book Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Book Author: James Fenimore Cooper
What do you like about this book:
When it comes to classic literature, I find it difficult to push through the extensive composition and melodramatic dialogue. But when the genre is narrowed to Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, “the bullet is aimed better than common.” Decorated with lovable characters from different backgrounds and endless action, The Last of the Mohicans makes for a truly fabulous read.
Sexual Content: A Mingo chief plans to force a woman to marry him and bear his children.
Violent Content: Graphic, and disturbing. During a raid, an Indian takes away an infant child his mother and murders him in the most bloody way possible. The act is described in explicit detail. Men are shot. People are scalped—both men and women. Villages are raided. The indian's victims are killed off in horrific ways from stabbed to being burned at the stake. I gave it a 5 on violence—but I would've given it a 6 if I could.
Language: None.
Drug/Alcohol: Indians smoke, but that's about it.
Your ratings of the level of sex, violence, language and drug/alcohol use on a scale of 1-5.
Sex:1
Violence:5
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Drug/Alcohol use:0