either. That is why when the Mohicans, Chingachgook and Uncas, team up with a British General and his daughters, Alice and Cora, it is a very unlikely pairing. Naturally, because of their racial history and way of life, these two groups had their significant differences but they also, surprisingly, were similar. General Munro and his daughters considered themselves dignified English people because they enjoy the sophisticated lifestyle of the upper class. Alice and Cora are Munro’s pride and joy and
considered lesser valued than a man, and almost all Americans formed stereotypes that fortified loathsome feelings towards Native Americans. One of the few people who did not follow these moral injustices was James Fenimore Cooper. In his novel, The Last of the Mohicans, he voices disapproval of religious zeal, gender stereotypes, and racial stereotypes. Cooper did not approve of religious fanaticism in the 19th century. He created the characters of Gamut and Hawkeye to demonstrate his opinion. During the
America can be beautiful, but never as beautiful as the movie The Last of the Mohicans portrayed it as. Picture this, it`s the year 1757 and no lawnmowers have been invented yet. The movie had several open fields, not pastures, but actual fields. Cora Munro plopped right down in one and drank her tea. Not only does the fact that we have fields lead to skepticism, but also many other factors contribute to the total doubt of how the beauty of America was portrayed by the producer, Michael Mann. When
tumultuous hair-raisers featured in The Last of the Mohicans. Without the difficulty of the terrain, the pursuit of Alice, Cora, and David Gamut (David was a definite afterthought) would not have altered events so dramatically for Heyward. On the other hand, Uncas was raised on the frontier, and it has made his life. It is the entire makeup of his being, just as tissues would not be without cells. In the same way, Uncas was because of the environment of his Mohican fathers. Indeed, Uncas knew “to love