Реферат: James Fenimore Cooper

uninhibited Americas. This novels setting was in the

wilderness that is now upstate New York. He took many

readers back to an America that we will never see. Another

thing that made this novel successful was the use of

violence. In a world without television or radios, early

Americans had only books. Reading about fights between

Indians and Americans was something that most Americans only

heard about. With Coopers vivid writing, many readers felt

as if they were witnessing the battles themselves.

The Prairie differs from Coopers other books because

?The Prairie depicts a world that man cannot pretend to

master, for it is beyond his control?(Ringe28). The plot

again involved Indian tribes battling against each other as

in The Last of the Mohicans. In fact, Cooper was accused of

laziness in the writing of this book because the main

characters, Hard Heart and Mahtoree, are so much like The

Last of the Mohicans Uncas and Mangua (Ringe28). Despite

these weaknesses, The Prairie was still a success. Cooper

saw how much attention The Last of the Mohicans got and

modeled another book after it. The use of conflicts between

Indian tribes seemed to hold readers attention. Most were

unaware that this too was an important part of Americas

short history.

In writing The Spy, The Pilot, The Pioneers, The Last

of the Mohicans, and The Prairie, Cooper used the underlying

historical theme. This was because historical themes were a

great asset to Coopers already good writing. In all of his

most successful novels he used real events and explicit

imagery to relay history in an interesting, appealing