How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Munro had again sunk into that sort of apathy which had beset him since his late overwhelming misfortunes, and from which he was apparently to be roused only by some new and powerful excitement. (18.68)
Does this strike anyone else as being kind of weird? Why is Munro so totally incapacitated by the captivity of his daughters? Is this some sort of literary device?
Quote #8
"As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fou't at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece in one ear, and that of the Sagamore in the other, I knew no enemy was on my back." (25.86)
Crossing racial boundaries, Hawkeye has been a father figure to Uncas. Does this mean that familial love in this novel is about something greater than race?
Quote #9
"Men of the Lenni Lenape!" he said, "my race upholds the earth! […] My race is the grandfather of nations!" (30.17)
The Mohicans were the first tribe of Delaware stock, and originated the rest of the Lenni Lenape. Here the language of family is applied to tribal relations—"My race is the grandfather of nations."