In class we watched The Last of the Mohicans and now have to write a paper on the historical accuracy?

Question

What is not accurate and what is?

Answer 1

In the scene where the British are leaving Fort Henry, you can see two busses in the background and a propane tank on the side of the path. That is not historically accurate.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Just to clear things up, the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Year War, was actually from 1754-1763.

But I actually have the same assignment in my history class...

I focused my paper on the accuracy of the battles, such as the weapons they used, the locations, and the end results. I got a lot out of it and if you do your research you can actually find a lot of information on it!

Good Luck!!

Answer 4

I love that movie -- as a love story, not as an historically accurate film.

Plus, it's nothing like the James Fenimore Cooper novel it was based on. His story dealt with the Indians, French & English. There was little romance in his novel -- the movie centered almost completely on the romance.

Answer 5

What is accurate is that all of the characters were real. However, the French & Indian War actually occured from 1939-1945. That makes it a bit anachronistic. But James F. Cooper claimed poetic license when confronted with these details, and that generally makes things in the literary world okay. Hope that helps!

Answer 6

Aren't YOU supposed to find that out ??? I love helping people, but not with homework. Sorry.

Answer 7

this was a good movie,but you need to read your history book,donn't expect some one else to do it for you

Answer 8

Read the book by James Fenimore Cooper. It's very accurate as it was written at the time. Most fiolms are distorted by Hollywood and are nothing like reality. Just look at the mess they made with 'Braveheart, Titanic and many others.

The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.

It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. But The Last of the Mohicans properly remains on the syllabi of most American literature courses. It is the best known of the Leatherstocking Tales, and Cooper wrote his novel The Prairie as a sequel to it.

The story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results.

Plot
Mohicans was the second book by Cooper, following Pioneers in 1823, to feature the pioneer Nathaniel ("Natty") Bumppo, who is known variously throughout The Leatherstocking Tales as "Deerslayer," "Hawkeye," "Pathfinder," "Leatherstocking," etc., or simply as "The Scout." He personifies the rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit that is central to the American identity to this day.

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by Hawk-eye, the last two Mohicans, and others. Parts of the story may have been derived from the capture and death of Jane McCrea in July 1777 near Fort Edward, New York, by members of an Algonquian tribe.


Characters
Magua (ma-gwah)– the villain tribe of the piece; the chief driven from his tribe for drunkenness and later whipped by the British Army (also for drunkenness), for which he blames Colonel Munro
Chingachgook – last chief of the Mohican tribe; escort to the travelling Munro sisters, father to Uncas
Uncas – last of the Mohican tribe; escort to the travelling Munro sisters.
Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo, known as "Hawkeye" – the "American hero" and escort to the Munro sisters, long-time friend of Chingachgook
Cora Munro – dark-haired daughter of Colonel Munro; her mother (who died young) was half-white half-black, which means that Cora is a quadroon (one-fourth black)
Alice Munro – Cora's younger, blonde half-sister
Colonel Munro – the sisters' father, a British army colonel in command of Fort William Henry
Duncan Heyward – a British army major from Virginia who falls in love with Alice Monro
David Gamut – a psalmodist (teacher of psalm singing)
General Webb – Colonel Munro's commanding officer, originally stationed at Albany, who later takes command at Fort Edward (whence he either cannot or will not come to Colonel Munro's aid when Fort William Henry is besieged by the French)
General the Marquis de Montcalm – the French commander-in-chief, referred to by the Hurons and other Indian allies of the French as "the great white father of the Canadas"
Tamenund – the "Sachem" of the Huron

Film, television, theatrical and other adaptations
A number of films have been based on the book, which is long - and movies need to be short. Hence numerous cuts, compressions, and inevitable distortions of the book appear in the film versions of 1911, The Last of the Mohicans (1920 film), The Last of the Mohicans (serial), The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film). The 1920 version directed by Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur is well regarded, as is George Brackett Seitz's 1936 starring Randolph Scott as "Hawk-eye." The 1920 film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The 1992 film by Michael Mann starring Daniel Day-Lewis as "Nathaniel Poe," Madeleine Stowe as "Cora Munro," Russell Means as "Chingachgook," Wes Studi as "Magua" and Eric Schweig as "Uncas" was, according to Mann, based more on the 1936 film version than on Cooper's book.

A number of television movies and serials have also been made, including the 1932 12-chapter motion picture serial starring Harry Carey as "Hawkeye", the 1957 ITC Entertainment series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans starring John Hart as "Nat 'Hawkeye' Cutler" and Lon Chaney Jr. as "Chingachgook," and a 1977 made-for-TV version starring Steve Forrest as "Hawkeye," Ned Romero as "Chingachgook" and Don Shanks as "Uncas."

The British Broadcasting Corporation made an eight chapter TV serial of the book in 1971, which had notable performances from Philip Madoc as "Magua," Kenneth Ives as "Hawkeye," John Abineri as "Chingachgook" and Patricia Maynard as "Cora Munro." This serial popularized the term "Mohican hairstyle" in Britain for what is known as a Mohawk hairstyle in the US, although this hairstyle was actually worn by the Hurons, not the Mohicans, in the serial.

The usual deletions from cinematic versions of The Last of the Mohicans are the extensive sections about the Indians themselves, thus confounding Cooper's purpose. Further, romantic relationships, non-existent or minimal in the novel, are generated between the principal characters, and the roles of some characters are reversed or altered, as are the events.

A children's edition was published in 1962 with illustrations by René Follet.

Currently, Marvel Illustrated is publishing a comic book mini-series of the story. The series has two issues published thus far with four more on the way.