- My "westward Movement" History teacher was talking about the West, and authors who wrote about the West, and he touched on James Fenimore Cooper. And then he started talking about the depiction of "noble savages," such as the Last of the Mohicans as portrayed by Cooper, where the Mohican takes in a white orphan who is the hero of the story.
Okay, so bascially, this guy is telling us the plot to the movie, but Last of the Mohicans: The Movie has little relationship to Last of the Mohicans: The Book. Hawkeye is not raised by Indians; he is an old hunter and marksman, and friend of the old Indian (whose name I can't think of). The red coat guy does not die, Cora dies and the other girl lives, and at one point, Hawkeye dresses up like a bear and sneaks into the Indians' camp.
The point of this being, my history teacher is teaching his class about Cooper and uses the movie as his tool, when Cooper and the movie are different stories. He hasn't even read Cooper. Why in the world is he talking about Cooper's impact, if he hasn't even read Cooper? It bothered me. Anyhoo..
- My "Great Political Thinkers" class is being taught by a guy who has one of those beards that you'd see on any "great, white, hunter" character. You know, something a British colonel stationed in Africa would wear. And his last name is Clayton, and I thoguht it was pretty funny. It's a good class, though. So far, lots of Greek and particularly Athenian history; stuff which I like.
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Well written article.
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