A Glimps of American Culture in the Last of Mohicans.docVIP

A Glimpse of American Culture through the Last of the Mohicans The Last of the Mohicans is one cooper’s most excellent works about the frontier life stowed in “leather stocking tales”. This story developed with three Mohicans’ experience escorting colonel Moro’s two daughters—Cora and Alice to his fortress. In describing of the conflicts as well as interavailability between the whites and the Indians, cooper expressed his profound sympathy for those Indians who lived with misery the whites forced on them; exposed the whites’ ignorance, arrogance, hypocrisy and cruelty; criticized the tyranny of the United Kingdom and the inhumane way they treated the Indians. Ranked as one of the classical literature works, you are sure to gather some idea of what the early America were probably alike. As a melt pot, America contains various races of people. Indians, regarded as the earliest settlers on this great continent, created splendid culture of their own. They are the sons of nature, their early life, undisturbed by the whites and industry is quiet, harmonious and primitive, meanwhile, full of challenge. They live in self—contaminated society, trading with goods and living by hunting, with little rags to hide their splendid body. Their home is just like the earth paradise, and they are the one with nature. Therefore, apart from their family name, nearly every native had a granted name connecting him with nature, at the same time, reflects a typical part in their characteristics, which belongs to a particular part of Indian culture—Totem culture. In the light of Native American tradition, each individual is connected with nine different animals that will accompany each person throughout his life acting as guides. A totem animal is one that is with you for life, both in the physical and spiritual world. In cooper’s novel, characters like Magua was named Le Renard Subtil means cunning wolf shows Mgua’s slyness. Chingachgook was called Le Groa Serpent. Uca