The Last of the Mohicans: Elements Further Explicated

Love and Romance

Many definitions are generally obtainable regarding love and romance and how it is possible to have an everlasting romantic love. But mostly, of these hundreds and thousands of definitions, 20 percent may be considered, personally speaking, as plausible.

Love isn’t just a feeling of want and like. It is for me, something mysterious and something that needs to be scrutinized profoundly for it to be wholly understood. It is something that tickles from this very moment and then later on aches after a single blink of the eye.

Love just like any other chances in this world chooses no one. It bumps to you right then and there without realizing how deeply troubled you are already and scared to fall in love.

In the story of the Mohicans, love is very visible among the lead characters who still find love in the verge of a disaster. It then proves that love chooses no one and chooses no day of the year whether it is third world war or not.

As for the characters, Uncas and Cora, who both find love in a situation where everyone would likely race their eyebrows. This is so because their relationship is a forbidden interracial coupling. But as everyone would say, love will find its way among all the circumstances it will undergo.

The story of the Mohicans does not only portray the war between the French and British colonizers but it also has a wonderful twist of love and romance present among the beautiful characters. The love and romance is even more emphasized because of the complicated situation and racial differences the characters have that might be a hindrance to their happy ending love affair.

Friendship

Most commonly, we often resort to friendship when we feel betrayal and unfaithfulness because of love.

Friendship is something that is very valuable, very precious, that even how grave a situation might be, as long as the friendship is true, it’ll always be there to comfort and ease the pain.

The very reason that I believe regarding the existence of friendship, is that, it is one of the resorting factors where we usually unburden the pain and soreness being felt by our hearts in times of grief and sorrow.

As for the story of the Mohicans, friendship can be seen through the link of Hawkeye and his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas. Apparently, Hawkeye belongs to a different race as that from Chingachgook and Uncas but Hawkeye exhibits friendship by making judgments without regard to race. In the way he exhibits friendship, he is able to create a link between the whites and the Indians and making it possible to see that both different people of different colors can still be friends and brothers.

Family

There’s no place like home as most of us say. As for the benefits it offers and for the shelter it gives, unquestionably, there is no place like home. But I consider that maxim to support my consideration having home as the best place to be and that reason is my family.

Aside from friendship as resorting factor, family is another thing we divulge to in times of grief and need. This is so because we feel secured and safe in the care of our family.
In the novel, we could see how family brings forth unity and how family can move mountains. We could recall how the daughters of Colonel Munro took risk to travel in the time of war just to see and be united with their father. Basing on this part of the story, we could see the intense and intimate bond that holds the family of Munro together. We could also simplify that family is the best trusted factor of confiding and the best shelter- giving aspect in the world. Seeing how both Cora and Alice struggled just to be with their father, gives the thought of having family as the most important aspect that an individual like us would really treasure and keep forever.

Also, we could see how a family unconditionally gives love just basing on the situation of Cora as half Negro and half sister of Alice. Alice unconditionally gives her love to Cora as her older sister without regarding the thought of being just half sisters. Acceptance and openness is exhibited and it brings forth the family to unity with a strong hold of love just like Munro’s family.

Race

In the novel, racial differences have really something to do in coping up with everyday life.

“The Hurons love their friends the Delawares. . . . Why should they not? They are colored by the same sun, and their just men will hunt in the same grounds after death. The redskins should be friends, and look with open eyes on the white men...”

Magua speaks these words in Chapter XXVIII in an attempt to race-bait and anger the Delaware council. In the novel, racist whites often argue for unity in the face of their sneaky foes, the Indians. Here, Magua uses the same argument against the whites. He argues that the same sun shines on all Indian cultures, and Indians should unite against the untrustworthy white men. Magua turns the stereotype on its head by suggesting that the Indians, not the whites, have something to fear from a shiftless race.

Cooper presents Magua’s words as nothing more than a calculated attempt to stir up the emotions of the Delawares. However, outside the world of the novel, Magua’s words take on another meaning. Cooper wrote during a time when the U.S. government carried out a policy of exterminating Native American peoples. Although Magua speaks from personal malice, the words he speaks should be heeded by all Indians who must live in fear of the conquest of their white oppressors.

Up to now, racial discrimination is still being practiced by some who have small brains and are not open-minded. Blacks are usually the ones who are being discriminated and singled-out from the others, more specifically the whites.

Color has really nothing to do with anything. We all live in the same place and we all are created by the same Creator, and therefore, we should learn how to keep one another on tract and not be a racist. We should also weigh in the circumstances that racial discrimination brings like emotional and psychological matters.

I, as one, am very much not into racial discrimination. For if we discriminate, it is like discerning our own self and discriminating what God has created.

Vengeance

I consider vengeance as a sin. But as humans, we are capable of doing such thing making as evil and corrupt.

Vengeance is a way of avenging in order to satisfy the thirst of getting even against a foe. It is a way of showing how corrupt we can be when revenge is in our mind. It enables us to forget what we are and disregard that revenge is a sinful act that may lead to burning of the soul.

In the story of the Mohicans, the novel’s villain Magua who is a cunning Huron, is the character who is very much capable of vengeance against his people.

Magua is driven from his tribe for drunkenness and because the English Colonel Munro enforced this humiliating punishment, Magua then possesses a burning desire for retaliation against Munro.

But as usual, evil will always be defeated against the good. Magua’s psychology becomes slightly more complicated by the end part of the novel, when sympathy tempers his evil.

Because of Magua’s too much desire to take revenge, his very own wickedness corrupted him.

Loyalty

In this very changing world were everyone seems to be thirsty of power and position, it is very hard to find a loyal and trustworthy person.

When it comes to friendship, I consider loyalty as the first factor in choosing a friend. A loyal friend who will always be true to someone, who trusts him fully.

When we are loyal to someone or something, we gain more trusts from people around us and we are able to put up a respect coming from them.

In the story, loyalty is very much needed, for the situation is in the boundary of a war where someone might be disloyal to the other just to run off defeat or just to attain higher power and position.

We could see how Hawkeye plays as a loyal friend to the Indians and how he disregards everything just to stay loyal and faithful to his friends. He cherishes the value of individuality and chooses to stay with Chingachgook and his son Uncas. In this very behavior of Hawkeye, he is able to showcase loyalty in the highest manner by having it offered to the blacks instead of offering it to the whites where he is supposed to offer it.