The Last of the Mohicans compare and contrast essay

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Write a compare and contrast essay on 2 characters in The last Mohicans. The essay should have 5 paragraph (Introduction, character introduction, similarity, differentness, and conclusion). Use at least 1 quote for each character (it can be quote from the movie or novel). Please take a look at the file below. (Works cited, novel photo, extra source).

http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo07000.html (movie)

http://www.online-literature.com/cooperj/mohicans/ (novel)

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1 Alice Munro and her Father Colonel Munro: Alike, Yet Different In the novel, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper, Alice and Col. Munro are two completely different characters despite the fact that they are family. On one hand, Munro is a major character in the novel and plays a huge role in the French and Indian war. On the other hand, Alice is a minor character who is portrayed as a damsel in distress. Throughout the novel, Cooper allows the audience to better understand these characters by putting them in certain scenarios which depicts their appearance, personality and how they are portrayed by different characters. Colonel Munro (Mann) Colonel Munro was born in Scotland. He had two wives since his first wife died of sickness. He is the father of two daughters named Alice and Cora. He was a strong commander of the British troops and was in the military for a long period of time. Though Munro is the English commander of Fort William Henry, he cares deeply about his daughters in which at one point of the novel, he stops his troops from firing and says “Hold! Tis she! God has restored me to my children! Throw open the sally-port; to the field… pull not a trigger, lest ye kill my lambs!” (Cooper) This part of the novel displays the kind of person Munro was. Munro was also intelligent, straightforward and stubborn. Many characters disliked Munro due to his personality and how he acted such as Hawkeye but there were others who were loyal to him such as Duncan Heyward and his daughter Alice. 2 Alice (Mann) Alice Munro was pure Scottish. Her mother and father were both from Scotland unlike her sister Cora. Alice had fair golden hair, bright blue eyes and was a very delicate character. She was also really shy and was seen as Cora’s little sister by many. She was infatuated with Duncan Heyward to a point where she would try to act tough in front of him. For example, in this scene, “Now let me make an effort to walk, she said when they had entered the forest, blushing, though unseen, that she had not been sooner able to quit the arms of Duncan.” (Cooper) Alice adores Duncan, which is why she acts a little different towards him. Although both characters have many differences, they also possess some similarities. Munro and Alice were both Scottish. They were also both high class. They also both took a liking towards Duncan Heyward but in different ways. Munro appreciated Heyward because he was a loyal soldier to him and Alice was in love with Heyward because of the person he was. Lastly, Munro and Alice both also disliked the Hurons as they tried to attack them many times. Throughout the novel, the audience developed a sense of what type of characters Munro and Alice would be. Cooper portrayed Alice as a simple heroine while making Munro a respected military leader. Many characters have different feelings towards Alice and Munro based on how they treated them. Some characters adored them and some simply loathed them. 3 Even though the characters seem like complete opposites, there were parts of the novel which displayed their similarities. 4 Works Cited Col George Munro (1700 - 1757) - Find A Grave Memorial, http://findagrave.com/cgi bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13036467. Accessed 9 October 2017 Cooper, James Fennimore. The Last of the Mohicans. Ladybird. Cooper, James Fennimore. “The Last of the Mohicans.” The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays & Summaries, www.onlineliterature.com/cooperj/mohicans/. Accessed 9 October 2017 Mann, Michael, Hunt Lowry, Christopher Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May, Russell Means, Wes Studi, Dante Spinotti, Dov Hoenig, Arthur Schmidt, Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman, Wolf Kroeger, James G. Robinson, and James F. Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans. , 1999. Mitchell, Henry. “The Last of the Mohicans”. 28 May 2016. http://thelastofthemohicansbookreport.blogspot.com/ Accessed 9 October 2017
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THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
The Last of the Mohicans Character Comparison
The novel, “The Last of the Mohicans” by James Fenimore Cooper is a very compelling
novel that revolves around the last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans.
The plot of the novel develops through different characters that have been depicted differently
based on their role and contribution to the development of the novel. Uncas, his father

Chingachgook and Hawkeye-his adopted half-white brother all contribute effectively towards the
development of the plot through their characterization in the novel. They all live in peace
alongside another British colonialist. However, the onset of the war occurs when the daughter of
a British colonel is kidnapped by a disloyal scout, Uncas and Hawkeye are tasked with the
greatest test of war to rescue her in the crossfire of a grisly military c...


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