Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences Summary 1.It does not seem right that Professors of English should give opinions without reading the book. INsteadm they should read Cooper’s literature first, then comment. It would be better to be quiet and let others who have read it tralk about it. 2.Cooper’s book does have problems. In fact, he mad onnhuendred adn forteen misteakes in two thirds of a page. It breads the reacord. In the ninetine rules for romantidc lituarture. Cooper brokoe eitghteen tou of ninetien.\ 3.TZhe first rule is there should be a reason for a stor, it should do soemthing adn rarive somewhere. Deerslayer doesn’t do this. THe second rule was that the events in a story should bre sued to developthe story. Deerslayer as …show more content…
It would be hard to find a clever situation in his book. There are several esxmaples of this. 12.Cooper’s books would be etter if he was an observer. His situationts lack the observers eye. An example of this is a stream tthat gets smaller for no reason. If he had paid attention, he would have noticed that his math on the bends were incorrect. 13.Somehow, this sam stream holds aboat,, which isn’t described thouoly, that shouldn’tgabe benn able to trave l down the stream. It would have been tooo wide adn too long. Also, there are trees bent over to hide some Indian’s in a small bend. Who’s to say the Indians wouldn’t be sumushhed? They could have just stepped aboard the slow moving ship, but they didn’t. 14.The ship would take about two minutes and a half to pass under trhe tree. Howeer, the indians that were tryng to jump onto it waited too long, adn missed the house on the boat and got knocked out. Any other true Indian would ganve gotten it. Not Cooper Indians. 15.The boat is no wpassed out of reach of he Indians. But since the boat had left, the Indians missed it. However, they did more hatn missed it, one by one they fell into the water. A cooper Indian and a wooden advertisment Indian are similiar in intelllect. This shows Cooper’s inadequincy as an
Additionally, In “The Last of the Mohicans”, Cooper discusses stories of founding fathers. An Indian and a white man are discussing the stories of their founding fathers. The white man accuses the Indian of attacking the original inhabitants
The Essay, I have chosen to read from is ReReading America was An Indian Story by Roger Jack. The topic of this narrative explores the life of an Indian boy who grows up away from his father in the Pacific Northwest. Roger Jack describes the growing up of a young Indian boy to a man, who lives away from his father. Roger demonstrates values of the Indian culture and their morals through exploration of family ties and change in these specific ties. He also demonstrates that growing up away from one’s father doesn’t mean one can’t be successful in life, it only takes a proper role model, such as the author provides for the young boy.
The authors go on to give an outstanding appreciation of his work as he states” Ellis clear prose, succinct expositions, and poignant observations make reading Founding Brothers highly rewarding...” ( Koschnik 274). The review as well goes on expanding to expand how Ellis writes about the characters in this book and their views on the topics. In the review he does discuss some cons that Ellis presents as he does state “Ellis cannot fully acknowledge the cultural imperatives that compelled these men to act as they did” ( Koschnik) 275). As a result, the review ends with the book is flawed, but it does offer great
They further saw the Indians as lazy people since they would not settle down at a place and develop the land they inhabited, there by missing out on profit opportunities and life improvement. On the other way round, the setllers cherished the natural resources because of the market value it possessed and not because of it immediate need. This made the settlers depict the Indians as poor and incompetent to maximize the transformation of these natural resources into economic gains and wealth.
I used the criticism/formalism lens on the chapter Speaking of courage, you can find the deeper meaning of the text using this lens. When analyzing this chapter we can see the irony of him not actually speaking. Also when we analyze this chapter we can identify the symbolism of Norman almost winning the silver star and we can recognize the symbolism of Normans ex-girlfriend and friend. After reviewing Speaking of Courage we have now found the deeper meaning that Tim O’Brien had focused on in the chapter that we would not have noticed without analyzing using the criticism/formalism lens.
Smith, Paul Chaat. 2009. Everything You Know about Indian Is Wrong. Minneapolis: Unviersity of Minnesota Press. Print.
Some of the captain?s crew began to regret their situation and even the captain had some anxious thoughts. They realized that it could be a dead end. They were uncertain where to go and of their situation. Suddenly, they noticed something was passing by them at a distance of half a mile. ? We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, passing towards the north.?
Mann’s biggest point, I believe, is that the Indian settlements he studied were much more civilized than grade school textbooks make them out to be. For instance, in the introduction, ‘Holmberg’s Mistake,’ Mann tells his readers about how Holmberg misinformed the world about the Sirionó being a tribe without history or common sense when they were, in fact, a highly populated tribe that flourished before diseases wiped them out.
The new US Government was careful not to antagonize the Indians and sought to treat them with mutual respect. This is evidenced in early treaties where the term “Red Brothers” was used to convey this sentiment of equality. By 1800 interaction between the Indian and white settlers had become quite common through trade. Many Indians traded for household goods, traps and tools. The US became concerned about the cultural differences and sought to improve the Indian station in life by providi...
· Fifty miles before Kurtz’s station, they discover a hut bearing wood for the steamboat and message to proceed with caution.
This insistence creates two problems. One is a problem of representation, in which the books confirm the strict illusion-reality dualism so characteristic of most contemporary medieval fictions. The second is a problem of interpretation, since they finally appear to undermine the very values of imagination and tradition that Cooper wishes to espouse.
According to Deloria, there are many misconceptions pertaining to the Indians. He amusingly tells of the common White practice of ...
The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line - that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away-trading-scows, and such things; and long black streaks-rafts ... and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up.
Brooks attempts to disprove the formalist critics and makes good points among the way in anticipating and devaluing their criticisms. Yet, he fails to prove that formalist criticism should be the only way in approaching literature, especially when contradicting himself.
Literature is an intricate art form. In order to attempt to understand the meanings and ideas within literary work, there are many forms of criticism that propose different approaches to its interpretation. Each criticism is crucial to the understanding of how individuals interpret literary works. Since each criticism has a different approach to enrich the understanding literary works, the question is raised whether one criticism should be used over others, whether a certain combination of criticisms should be used, or whether all criticisms should be taken into account. This may all be dependent on the reader’s individual preference or opinion, but each criticism presented builds on the others to create a well-rounded and unique understanding