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QUESTION: Write a 4-5 page essay on Last of the Mohicans and its historical relevance. Your focus should be one or more of the major themes of the novel, as well as the connection to events happening in the United States and the World today. Choose from the following list and discuss the theme or themes' presentation in the novel, the significance during the French & Indian War, and impact on America and the world: colonialism, imperialism, mercantilism, warfare, knowledge, technology, nature, culture, prejudice, racism, discrimination, family structure, friendship.

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Interracial Love and Friendship

The Last of the Mohicans is a novel about race and the difficulty of overcoming racial divides. Cooper suggests that interracial mingling is both desirable and dangerous. Cooper lauds the genuine and longtime friendship between Hawkeye, a white man, and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian. Hawkeye and Chingachgook’s shared communion with nature transcends race, enabling them to team up against Huron enemies and to save white military leaders like Heyward. On the other hand, though, Cooper shows his conviction that interracial romances are doomed and undesirable. The interracial love of Uncas and Cora ends in tragedy, and the forced interracial relationship between Cora and Magua is portrayed as unnatural. Through Cora, Cooper suggests that interracial desire can be inherited; Cora desires Indian men because her mother was part black.

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