Cora Munro's relationship with her younger, fairer sister Alice demonstrates a distinct mother-daughter pattern that manifests itself in every interaction between the two women. Throughout James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, the...

The Roles of Family in Wieland and The Last of the Mohicans

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a...

The Last of the Mohicans is a novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826, set in upper New York wilderness in 1757, the book focuses on the French and Indian War (1754 – 1763). The book follows Alice and Cora Munro, Hawkeye, Chingachgook,...

Looking back on the mountain-view that was described as the main character's of Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers caught sight of Templeton, their hometown, in the distance, Elizabeth, the primary female character, "felt as if all the loveliness of...

The Silent Retreat: Indian Removals as Represented by Hobomok and The Pioneers

The historicity of the Indian removals that took place during the 19th century in the United States is one that has been embellished in literature and dramatized in...

At any point in time, the world has been filled with people who are vastly different from each other. While these differences may at times feel insurmountable, they do not have to be points of division for humanity. Humanity can instead choose to...