Compare And Contrast Last Of The Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans, Uncle Tom’s cabin, and Connecticut Yankee genres are fairly similar just in different ways. All three of the novels take place in the nineteenth century and all have a tragedy and adventure plot point. The authors take these genres and use them to the best of their ability in the novels. The genres bring freedom, faith, and death through all of the pieces of literature.
In Last of the Mohicans, Cooper's novel is set forty years in the past. It takes place in the wilderness in what will soon become the New York state. Cooper uses the source of facts to create his adventure, captivity narrative, and tragedy/romance. The Mohicans and Chingachgook and Uncas become in battle with the French and Indian war. Cooper writes

this a historical novel because they are incorporated with the French and Indian war and the Massacre of Fort William Henry. The Last of the Mohicans is a romanticized novel because there are many romantic relationships formed like Uncas/Cora and Alice/ Heyward. Even if they are not like a dating a relationship but also a friendship like Uncas and Duncan, “I cannot permit you to accuse Uncas of want of judgement or of skill,” said Duncan; “he saved my life in the coolest and readiness manner, and he has made a friend who never will require to be reminded of the debt he owes (Pg 63)”, Cooper uses the true and interracial friendship to secure the novel with hope from the characters. Tragedy occurs many times throughout the novel. The death of Cora and Uncas and the Mohican tribe all promotes to the tragedy genre. The novel sets the scene to be very dangerous, “ It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North American, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet (Pg 1)”, Cooper is adding the war and how dangerous it makes the book. Characters are going to end up dead and hurt because of the dangers throughout the novel. Cooper blends all of these genres to form a the unique novel.