The Last Of The Mohicans Analysis

Aysha Jackson
Mr. White
Honors U.S History
October 20, 2015

Thought's on the Mohicans

Watching "The Last of the Mohicans" for the first time was an enjoyable experience. I definitely saw somethings that I liked and disliked but most importantly, I learned from the film; not only something that taught me who the Indian Tribes were but something that I could apply to my everyday life. So I want to share these things with you. First and for most, learning about all of the wars and battles throughout history was always a huge struggle me. Watching the film really opened my eyes and put things into perspective on the different difficulties the tribes went through. I could clearly understand what the film was about. I am the first to confess that I don't know to much about how the lifestyle was with people who lived in the first decades of the European settlement of North America. It's interesting because I had memories that referred back to when I watched a movie called "Black Robe", set in the earlier days of the

Hawkeye is portrayed as the ideal American Frontiersman. He is brave and very skillful but he is also civilized. He's also very familiar with the forest and nature in general. His skillfulness in knowing how to canoe came in handy when he and his two friends Chingachgook and the latter’s son, Uncas, escaped from danger at one point by floating down a river. Hawkeye and his friends are also heroic in the way they attack the Hurons who have captured the white soldiers and two white women. Hawkeye is skilled in tracking animals and people, as when he traces the location of the white women after finding a veil belonging to one woman hanging from a tree. Hawkeye shows heroic bravery when he wears a disguise and manages to sneak into an enemy camp. As the novel concludes, Hawkeye uses his rifle to slay Magua, a Huron who is the major antagonist of most of the heroic characters in the