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American novelist, James Fennimore Cooper, explores the implications of race as a means of establishing a moral code of conduct for relations between the white and Native American populations. The expression of appropriate racial interactions is developed through the representation of characters of both groups by drawing attention to the shared features as well as the prominent dissimilarities between them. This creates a statement that creates clear borders of racial difference; however the text clearly supports characters that align themselves on this boundary, borrowing positive traits from either side without completely crossing over. The representation of the novels protagonists Hawkeye and Uncas written in contrast to the antagonist,

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