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A 5 page paper which
examines Mark Twain’s claims against the work of Fenimore Cooper in “Fenimore
Cooper’s Literary Offenses. No additional sources cited.
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whatsoever, for the work of Cooper. This particular essay is a very intricate and thorough dismantling of the work of Cooper, wherein Twain tears apart everything from Coopers experience to
his use of language. In short, Twains work seems to be an essay which takes an arrogant man down a peg or two. Bearing that in mind we turn to
examining one specific focus of Twains work wherein he proves much of Coopers work false in terms of knowledge. Knowledge and Fenimore Cooper While Twain attacks Cooper for
many things, one of the most prominent subjects is that of knowledge. He illustrates how Coopers woodland knowledge, and general knowledge of how things work, is wrong yet is presented
in a fashion where one expects that they are reading of real knowledge. As such the reader is misinformed and Twain suggests that he should likely have just written as
though he were an observer, not a knowledgeable source. In better examining Twains perspective we start at the beginning of the focus. He illustrates that "Cooper was a sailor
-- a naval officer; yet he gravely tells us how a vessel, driving toward a lee shore in a gale, is steered for a particular spot by her skipper because
he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or whatever it is, isnt that neat?"
(Twain NA). It is quite clear from these lines that Twain is clearly patronizing Cooper in a very sarcastic manner, indicating that Coopers knowledge is pretentious and perhaps in error.
Twain goes on to state that, "For several years, Cooper was daily in the society of artillery, and he ought to have noticed that when a cannon-ball strikes the ground
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