The native Americans' and the white men's actions influenced by their points of view in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of The Mohicans

Sari, Widia Rahajeng Nita (2008) The native Americans' and the white men's actions influenced by their points of view in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of The Mohicans. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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This thesis discusses about The Native Americans' and the white men's actions influenced by their points of view in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans. It will answer four questions. First, what are the Native Americans' points of view in James F. Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans?.Second, how do the Native Americans' actions influenced by their points of view?. Third, what are the white men's points of view toward the Native Americans?. Fourth, what are the white men's actions influenced by their points of view?. In this research, the researcher uses library research. It includes the internet browsing. There are two kinds of data: primary and secondary data. The primary data are taken from the novel, The Last of the Mohicans.The secondary data are taken form the biography of James F. Cooper, the theories of actions by Pickering and Harper, and theories of points of view by Rachil. The Native Americans had been claimed that the white men had desire to conquer the American's land, and the white men so racialist toward the Native Americans. By the perception that the white men are conquerors and racialist will present the attitudes and actions of the Huron's tribe. Theactions of the Huron's tribe can be shown in the Huron feeling the white men's unfair treatment, the Huron considering the white men as enemies, the Huron taking revenge to the white men can be seen in the willingness to take revenge: the Huron kidnapping the white men, the Huron mocking the white's materialism and the last the Huron killing the white men. The white men's points of views toward the Native Americans can be seen in the white men's negative points of views toward the Native Americans that are: Native Americans as inferior person, Native Americans as unreliable persons, Native Americans as materialistics person,Native Americans as barbarians, and Native Americans as merciless and injusticed persons. The white men's also have positive points of view toward the Native Americans as experts in recognizing the sounds, the prints, the signs, and the ways. The white men's points of views toward the Native Americans that influence their actions can be shown in the white men manipulating the Native Americans for the white men's profit, the white men watching the Native Americans, the white men trying to ransom the kidnapped white men, and the white men attacking the Native Americans. By doing this research, the writer knows how the Native Americans' and the white men's actions influened by their points of view in novel The Last of the Mohicans.

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