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A 6 page paper which examines the theme of nature in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel “The Last of the Mohicans.” No additional sources cited.
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important, character in many stories, serving as a protagonist as well as an antagonist in many respects. In James Fenimore Coopers novel "The Last of the Mohicans" nature is clearly
a very important and powerful character. It serves as many different things, to different characters. The following paper examines the theme or presence of nature as seen through three different
characters and their particular relationship with nature. The characters discussed are David Gramut, Hawkeye, and Chingachgook. Nature: David David Gramut is a European through and through. He is
a man who has really only read about the wilderness and true, untouched nature, through books, conversation, or simple contemplation. He has been raised in England, a very civilized nation
that has possessed no real wilderness for many centuries. As such his interaction with nature, and what nature means to him, is very different and perhaps reflective of how most
people interact with nature. He is also a man who seems all but oblivious to the nature around him as his entire world is immersed in singing, and singing praises
to God. The manner in which he approaches nature is not affiliated with a sense of beauty, a sense of examination or
introspection, but rather a view that seems to only see the nature around him as something of a frightening hindrance to his mission of saving the sisters. At one point
he is urged into a cave "where you may create those sounds you love so well to hear" (Cooper Chapter 9). Here he seems to find something of wonder in
nature, perhaps, but then it is described as nothing more than a tool for his "vocation" and nothing that possesses any power or intelligence of its own outside of the
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