Cooper's "Deerslayer": View Of The Native Americans
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James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington,
New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the
twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the
first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first
American ....
Middle of paper
.... The first contact the reader has with people in the book is
in the passage in which the two hunters find each other. "The calls were
in different tones, evidently proceeding from two men who had lost their
way, and were searching in different directions for their path" (Cooper, p.
5). Bewley states that this meeting is symbolic of losing one's way
morally, and then attempting to find it again through different paths.
Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest into the little
cle ....
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