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The Last of the Mohicans takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War. The British and the French North American colonies were fighting each other, and each had their respective Native American allies supporting them. Traveling through New York, through the wilderness, basically unprotected… doesn’t really sound like a fun idea, but that’s exactly where the story takes off. The two sisters Cora and Alice are supposed to travel to Fort Henry, where their father (Colonel Munro) is in comma
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This was unbelievably painful to read. One of the worst books I have ever suffered through. The only interesting sentence of the book is the last one (ambiquity of meaning), otherwise it's a terrible book. The way the native people are represented - the way women are described as objects which have to be carried from place to place - the "I am a man without a cross" racial purity s-t - the fact that the book is plain boring and that Cooper is deliberately alienating his audience - these are some
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Nov 25, 2017
Angie
marked it as to-read
