For all those that have read The Last of the mohicans...HELP PLEASE!?

Question

I'd hate to be one of those people who as the stupid questions like what this this book about? becuase we have sparknotes for that, buyt what sparknotes and all the other websites DO NOT have, is the subplot. The subplot is an under-story that runs parallel to the main plot. As a hint, if your choice of main plot is an internal conflict, then your subplot may be external. If the main plot is specific to a small group of people, then the subplot may be a wider cross section of the population. THis would lead me to believe that it was about the french and indian war... but how can i write a page on it? Can someone provide some assistance to me ASAP? I read the entire book, and have a ten page paper to write due tomorrow morning... Also, any quotations (not from sparknotes or anywhere else) would be helpful, becuase those quotes arent working for me, and the whole world would know i went to sparknotes... Thank you whoever you are if you help me...I wont forget this!! Thanks a bunch!!!

Answer 1

Well ask yourself what else happened other than the main plot of the story. What do the Other people in the book Symbolize - For Instance, why does one sister die and the other live, what is the difference between the two? How about her getting an 'Indian' funeral rather than a modern one? What is the meaning of the death of Uncis, why is it called Last of the Mohicans, what point is being made about the Old America and the life of the Indian. Figure that out, get some quotes to support it, slap on quote analysis and you’re good to go. Word to the wise, the movie is nothing like the book. Also all those cheat sites have Intentional errors so that teachers can spot when you use them. DOnt worry once you figure out a plausible (doesn't have to be right! just 'supportable'!) subplot put in quotes from the book and introduce and explain the quotes you'll have your 10 pages. You can do it, just a little quote at a time. Answer the questions in the beginning of this post in your head and that's your thesis.
ps in the Book Hawkeye is closer in age to the older Indian and Uncis is more of a boy, and Cora dies, Alice lives as does her father. DONT USE THE MOVIE.

Answer 2

I really do think you should read the book and find out for yourself. Sparknotes or any other guide to the novel should NEVER serve as a substitute for reading the book. Those are GUIDES, NOT substitute readers.

Chow!!!

Answer 3

"At the forefront of the film remains the forbidden romance, between Hawkeye Cora, although a parallel subplot develops involving the younger sister Alice and Hawkeye’s brother, Uncas. Unlike the florid language exchanged between Hawkeye and Cora, Alice and Uncas barely exchange a word, and a communication develops that evokes the memory of a silent film serial, with a number of soulful gazes and sudden embraces. However, it is a tragic romance, as both perish in a rather melodramatic, although genuinely poignant fashion."

http://notcoming.com/reviews.php?id=630

"The burned cabin scene also allows Hawkeye to enter the fort with exactly the evidence the militia needs to force Munro into keeping his bargain with them and letting them go home to defend what they've carved from the wilderness. In Cooper, it is the journey to the fort that takes up most of the action in the novel's first half. Dunne compresses the journey almost to extinction in order to get Hawkeye, the rabble-rouser, back in contact with his foot-soldiers. Alice is impressed with, if somewhat intimidated by, her traveling companion's "healthy contempt for all things British," but before long she will share that contempt. Duncan, who is in love with Alice, as he is in the novel, finds himself threatened by Hawkeye personally as well as politically. Once everyone realizes no reinforcements will be arriving to help the badly outmanned British, Hawkeye openly confronts Munro, holding him to the agreement he made only for expedient, not moral, reasons.

When Munro reveals that he will renege on his promise, Hawkeye, Chingachgook, Uncas, and the militiamen fight the militia's way out of the fort; that is, they attack the British within their own fort. Because Hawkeye has fallen for Alice (and Uncas for Cora, maintaining the novel's subplot), they stay behind to be arrested for sedition. This colonists-versus-British plot is Dunne's addition to Cooper's story. In order to get the principals out of the fort (and prison), Dunne has Indians storm the barricades and kidnap the virtuous maidens, the Munro sisters. The Hawkeye party must then be allowed to rescue them before Hawkeye is executed. As in the novel, Cora and Uncas die during this escapade. Duncan and Hawkeye engage in some Shakespeare-like identity-swapping (played for humor and to allow a classic Cooper-esque Natty Bumppo shooting-skill display), only to have everyone rescued by, guess who, the colonial deserters."

http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill/jbh-mann.htm

An alternative to Sparknotes...CliffsNotes!
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-57.html

Cheers! Now just get some concrete details to compare and analyze the similarities of these subplots to the overall one.

Answer 4

why don't you rent the movie "The Last of the mohicans"? maybe you will understand it better. I know that some students watch the movie instead of reading the book.
:)