The Last Of The Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper

“Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?” James Fenimore Cooper, the author of The Last of the Mohicans often writes and demonstrates in his stories his belief that evil has its consequences. James Fenimore Cooper (1764-1789) was sparked by the Revolutionary period. The war between the American colonies and Great Britain, leading to the formation of the independent United States. The Revolution and his romance for it has an impact in his stories. After his wife challenged him to writing a better book then the one she was reading, He wrote The Spy: A Tale of Neutral Ground published in t1821. The first historical romance about the Revolution, which sparked Cooper’s writing career as he moved to New York City to further his new love for writing. James Fenimore Cooper was the first
Walker titled The Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fennimore Cooper, Walker analyzes Cooper’s writing. In the story “The Lake Gun” Cooper puts his real life problems or his life grudges into his stories, but portraying them as other characters. Robert E Spiller, pointed out these were facial characteristics of William Seward, the demagogue whom Cooper had many specific reasons to dislike. Yes, I agree with his thoughts on, “The Lake Gun” and Cooper’s writing techniques of portraying real life problems and putting them into fiction stories because it helps the reader to relate to the story better. “Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.” (Cooper) Cooper shows his problems and aggressions with the people of the world. “Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson.” (Cooper) “It is fate of all things to ripen, and then decay.” (Cooper) He is trying to demonstrate that all things have good points, but eventually those points fall or end. The analysis by Warren S. Walker helps readers to recognize the style and techniques in which James Fenimore Cooper