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Summary: Classically Misunderstandable, but a Classic
Review: The Last of the Mohicans was a great book in sense of adventure and intrigue. It got down to the raw life of the people back in its time and really was detailed to where you could have a vivid picture in your mind. The writing was intelligent and crafty, but shall I say, CONFUSING due to the fact that the language within it was unlike that of the language we use today. I had to re-read a lot of sections for the reason that the wording had me confused and I had to try to take in what Cooper really meant. I am not in to this sort of book for pleasurable reading (it was a class assignment) and I would not recommend it for the non-rustic teenage girl, but it does display a valuable piece of history. I really enjoyed the love-related aspect of the book because I enjoy romantics and I liked how put that in. Otherwise, I might have disliked the majority of the book. All in all, this book was written very well and is a valuable piece of literature, but I do not consider it a favorite and would not wish to recommend it to others of my generation for it is sort of out of date, so to speak.
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Summary: Read this book!!!!!
Review: My book review is on Last of the Mohicans .I thought it was a GREAT book. It is a real classic. It is a five star book. This takes place in the colonial times. A Frenchman named Hayward helped the Mohicans their names are Chingachkook and Uncas . An enemy named La Salage. I think that you should read the book.
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Summary: Last of the mohicans; a challenge for the young mind
Review: I'm a junior in high school and recently read lotm for an advanced english 3 class. I found it some what wordy and very drawn out. Some where buried underneath a mound of words that I struggled to understand was an interesting and historical plot. I really liked the plot and time setting, but I don't think Cooper's style of writing was intended for my generation. I would definately mention the reading of this book to an adult who appreciates american classics, but I wouldn't even admitt reading it to a younger person.
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Summary: Dated and over-rated
Review: I had a really hard time with this "classic" of American literature, but then, I've never been really thrilled with early 19th century American writers. The style of the period is over-wordy by today's standards, with a great deal of what is essentially sermonizing both on the part of the author and the characters and very little real dialogue or character development. I'm a person who can generally consume any 400 page novel in a day or so, but I found I could not read more than about a chapter of LOTM at a time, and my attention wandered a lot.The story by itself it a pretty good one, dealing with the middle part of the French and Indian War. There is a great deal of fighting, striving with the wilderness, being exposed to alien cultures, and a dash of romance thrown in for good measure. Unfortunately, the story suffers from the over-abundance of words. Every encounter is melodramatized to the point of boredom, and the actual events get lost. Hawkeye, that redoubtable woodsman, never shuts up, and after a while everything he says is the same. Likewise for the other characters. There isn't any growth or development. I became increasingly offended by the portrayal of the Indians, both hostile and friendly, as either noble savages or just savages, obviously inferior to the white man. I also became increasingly offended with the portrayal of the two women, both of whom represented stereotypes of femininity popular at the time. I realise that Cooper was writing at a time when it was not much the practice to see value in native cultures and the memory, if not the actual experience, of the real violence between the American aborigines and the European immigrants was still close to the surface, but that didn't keep me from being disgusted at his overbearing and superior attitude. I'm glad I read this book, because it is held a classic. But that's the only thing that kept me going.
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Summary: Very Hard to Read, but in the end, Worth the Effort
Review: I had a sort of love/hate relationship with this book. Cooper's writing style is so difficult to read and there were many times that I would read and reread sections and still have no idea what Cooper was trying to say. However, I was basically able to follow the plot, and even though the book is way too long, the story is really good. I saw the movie with Daniel Day-Lewis and was completely disgusted. Cooper's book deserved so much better than it got in that movie. I can understand the movie-makers wanting to have Hawkeye be a hunky young man instead of a middle-aged man who has a tendency to talk all the time, but come on, couldn't they have stayed more true to the basic plot of the book than they did? All that crap about the Colonial Militia and Hawkeye being imprisoned for helping some of the colonists escape the fort was just irritating and stupid.
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Summary: Three and a half stars.
Review: This book has a powerful tale. It is just difficult for modern readers to read. Once I got used to his style of writing I liked Cooper's plot and characterization. I fell in love with Scout and Chingagook. I didn't want anything to happen to them. This book is a classic because it puts a story in the context of a time period and does it well. Again, its only downfall is its language, but that goes with the territory.
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Summary: Good book, makes me want to read the whole series
Review: This was a good story. It was completly different from the film. At first the language is a little challenging, I found myself re-reading passages to understand them better. After about 50 pages the reader understands it and the book comes to life. I enjoyed this story about Hawk Eye and his companions. It makes me want to buy the other books in the Leatherstocking Tales and read them as well.
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Summary: Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
Review: While "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fennimore Cooper is considered to be a classic novel that everyone should read, I suggest otherwise. Granted, once I finally became adapted to reading Cooper's overly exaggerated descriptive scenes, and could sift through the endless lines of details, I grew to enjoy the story.
In "The Last of the Mohicans," a group of travelers consisting of a singer, a Major of the British army, two general's daughters, and an Indian guide decide to take a shortcut to meet up with the girl's fathers at a distant British camp. The Indian guide leads them off trial and they wander around the wilderness until two other Indians, Uncas and Chicangook, as well as their white companion Hawk -Eye, decide to guide them to their destination. Along the way the travelers go through everything from a battle to two separate kidnappings. Overall the story was enjoyable but It dragged on several hundred pages longer than it had to be.
In short, I recommend "The Last of the Mohicans" to a true fan of 1800 era war and Native stories who have enough time on their hands to read the 430 page novel and enjoy the language used some 200 years ago.
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Summary: An Early Example of American Literature
Review: Reading this, it's easy to see why James Fennimore Cooper is considered the first true American novelist. A comparison with the rather talky, and overly descriptive English novels of the time, shows that this is vastly different. First, of course, this is about the exploits of the common man. Hawkeye, the main white character, is the quintessential rugged individualist, eschewing society to live in the woods and travel with his Indian companions. Then there is the natural setting--the woods and streams and waterfalls of upstate New York, which appear almost as characters, themselves in the novel. And then, of course, there is that most American of stories, the decimation of the Indian populations. Having not read this book since I was in grade school, I found it suprisingly enjoyable. I was also surprised to find that the true emphasis of the story was the relationship between Hawkeye, the white scout,and the Mohicans, rather than the love story cooked up for the 1991 movie, and that a love interest also exhisted between the young Mohican, Uncas, and Munro's daughter, Cora,who, expediently, turned out to be of mixed race herself. As historical fiction, this is very accurate. And though the Indians are generally depicted,at their worst, as inhuman savages, and, at their best, as surprisingly bright and sensitive savages, for the time in which it was written, it was probably rather daring, and the most one could expect toward bridging the gap between the races. In this edition, the N.C.Wyeth illustrations were a real asset. I wish we could go back to the days when books were beautifully bound and contained artistically rendered illustrations. It really adds to the total reading experience. I would definitely recommend that those who think of this as one of those classics they were forced to read in school, give it a second try. You may be pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: Book Review
Review: In the book The Last of the Mohicans, by Fenimore Cooper, the climax of the story is when Uncas and Hawkeye drop their rifles and try to catch up to Magua and Cora, and one of the Hurons stab ora in the heart and kill her was really ironic because you do not expect her to die. Also, when Uncas kills the Huron that killed Cora, but Mugua stabs Uncas three times and kills him is also really ironic. Magua's death was not very suspenseful. Rather than him just falling off the cliff, it would have been better if he died in a battle. The end of the story was very tragic since Chingachogook's son Uncas died and so did Colonel munro's daughter cora died. Alice and Duncan Heyward live happily ever after. Coooper shows how inter racial mixing can lead to bad consequences. From the Beginning Magua shows characteristics of an antagonist and his evil intentions that are to get revenge on Colonel Munro is one of the main things that lead to the death of Uncas, Cora, and to his own death. The main theme that Cooper is trying to get across in this book would be how the coming of the Europeans and how they brought such a different way of life that the Indians were not accustomed to, had destructed the way that the Indians in North America lived.
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