The moral of this story and the other "Leatherstocking" novels runs deep in the frontiersman Natty Bumppo's frame of mind, his profound love of the wilderness and respect for all forms of life - be it a redskin or a whiteskin, an animal or a plant. It is true, I may be biased and may still be one of those few holding a view that nothing can replace a mind's eye, favouring rather the power of conception as opposed to some passive viewing in the flicks or in front of a TV set. Though it certainly owes much to the romantic style it had been written in, as a young boy I was getting so fascinated with the characters and events depicted in the book by the writer, my imagination set off by the plot in such a fashion that no movie or TV dramatisation can come even close to.
I first read The Last of the Mohicans when I was about 10, (although in Hungarian translation) and was so fascinated with it that I was simply compelled to go on and read all 5 books in the series. Hardly a starting point for making a worthy and valid comment. Cooper novel, one gets the impression as if the critics making some of the comments have not actually read it very attentively, or just quickly brushed over it so as to fulfil their compulsory reading obligation set by the tutor. The book is characterized by a series of thrilling attacks, captures, flights and rescues.īy browsing through the reviews made on this particular J. His schemes are frustrated by Uncas, the last of the Mohicans, his father Chingachgook, and Natty Bumppo. Their course is blocked by Magua, the leader of a group of Huron Indians who are allied to the French. The plot revolves around the efforts of Alice and Cora Munro to join their father, who is the commander of Fort William Henry near Lake Champlain. It is an adventure set in the forests of North America during the Seven Years War (1756-1763) between Great Britain and France. His character as the last uncorrupted white man who prefers the code of the Indian than the nature of the white settlers, who is loyal, courageous and a superb exponent of wood craft struck a chord with contemporary Americans that still finds an echo today. The Last of the Mohicans is complete in itself, but is tied to the other stories by Natty Bumppo, the central figure of the series. The other titles are: The Pioneers (1823), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841). Published in 1826, this is the second novel in Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" series.
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