Last of Mohicans lecture captive narrative is the foundation of the western narrative.

Characters like Theodore Roosevelt who set themselves up as hunters and trappers. What kind of resonance does Cooper's text have to American times? What fielder says in any process of colonization there has to be a strong alongside it, there has to be a grand narrative. The idea of the frontier. The new frontier-the american frontier as a mythological space. The country was still being defined-myth of shifting of borders feed into eachother. A debate or discourse of the background to the novels-D.H. Lawrence Indian removal-cooper is writing in the early 1800's-native american characters in his novel, does that somehow reflect with whats happening as he's writing. Man without a cross-a white character. In what way does the last of the mohicans establish a brighter future? A national ideal.Cooper's novel helped an American literary style. Light and shade. Different moments of shading in the novel. What is it about the novel in paticular that might draw it to the genre of Western? Is the frontier in this novel anyway being controlled? The genetic past of the two sisters? Eden edwards confedorate family that he's just saved-he doesn't fit with their world and or the old world. Questions on gender? The male master narrative in the last of mohicans. Female characters are in the shadows of male characters. What is the variation and ability between action. What happens with these male american characters? Nationalism and male identity. Threatened versions of femininity? Are women more free on the frontier. And if women are more free is there something more unsettling about that? Native American removal. Uncus is a personification of his people with his death we see the last of the mohicans. Old America has just given way to a new America. Manifest Destiny.