Hawkeye holds to the belief that the Great Spirit that the Indians worship is the same as the One True God, and this is discussed fairly often. Magua, the villain of the story, has no morals, and his darkness serves to make Cora's faith show more brightly.
Cora is the other star of the novel and represents all things virtuous and pious in her speech and her actions. Hawkeye also lives by the law of the woods (which is not much of a law at all) and works under the philosophy that they must kill or be killed. Many of the tribes of the northern lakes live in deep animosity toward each other, and there is much bloodshed even among brother nations.Ĭhingachgook is a very stoical and typically Indian character who has no qualms about killing anyone who might remotely pose a threat Uncas is equally a warrior, but shows other characteristics that make him shine in the story, such as his devotion to recovering Cora and Alice. The morality of the Indians is rather sketchy, especially from the perspective of 21st Century readers. Subsequently, Cora and Alice are kidnapped by Magua and his tribe, and it is left to Heyward, Chingachgook, Uncas, and Hawkeye to save them. When Magua betrays them, the three turn to strangers for help - the white man Hawkeye and his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Chingachgook's son Uncas. The novel begins with English colonel Munro sending his daughters, Cora and Alice, to another fort, accompanied by loyal soldier Duncan Heyward and the Indian brave Magua.
The second and most well-known of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales is set during the French and Indian War in North America.
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperĪ gut-wrenching, epic novel of the French and Indian War with violence and debatable morality.
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