To begin with, there’s the waterfall jump where Chingachgook, Uncas, and Hawkeye leap out and survive the fall, coming out unharmed. Several illogical and bizarre dramatic effects can be observed in this novel. Alice throws herself off the cliff because she saw that Uncas died defending her. Magua kills Uncas and Colonel Monro but then later is killed by Chingachgook, the last of the Mohicans. These rescues go on as the novel progresses, and finally, the Hurons capture Alice, Cora, and Heyward only Cora survives. Magua betrays them and leads them into the battle with the Hurons they survive only because Chingachgook, Uncas, and Hawkeye are passing by and rescue Cora, Alice, and Heyward. William Henry, a fort being attacked by the French, with the help of a Huron tribe member Magua and Major Duncan Heyward. The daughters of Colonel Monro, Alice, and Cora, are going to visit him at Ft. The Last of the Mohicans is set on the American frontier during the French and Indian War. James Fenimore Cooper’s adventure series was very popular in Europe and in the United States because they didn’t only introduce the first American hero as well as the noble savage but also enclosed adventure and quests. The novel also depicts the adventurous traits of the natives. As regards this, Cooper has quite artistically presented the prevailing culture of the Native Americans in the novel. The races portrayed in the novel are real and existed in the time of the writer. The Last of the Mohicans is a novel about national, cultural, social, gender, and racial equality.
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