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Hawkeyes Character Profile - College Essay

Hawkeyes Character Profile

Natty Bumppo is the main protagonist in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. Natty Bumppo is a well known "palefaced" woodsmen among the Tribes and European armies throughout the colonial state of New York. Hawkeye, as his friends call him, is also known as The Scout and La Long Carabine by his enemies. He is extremely skilled with his rifle and has profuse knowledge of the wildness, but is still aspiring to reach the Indian plateau of oneness with nature. He and the Mohicans help a small British party navigate through the wilderness to deliver two daughters to a General at Forth William Henry, a few days journey from their starting point. Hawkeye is friends with the ...

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strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil." He has no cross in his heart, and does not believe in a Christian God proved when he shoots at the Huron Indians and bellows "Come on ye bloody-minded hellhounds! Ye meet a man without a cross. Bumppo is dressed in a divergent way, wearing an old frontiersman hunting shirt, which contrasts his natively fashioned moccasins, knife in a girdle of wampum, and buckskin leggings that laced at the side. His subconscious attentiveness gained by living in the wild causes his eyes to appear keen and dexterous, constantly scanning for any unknown object. Bumppo's mastery of his rifle "killdeer" has given him fame and infamy, due to his elite ability to shoot, and the sheer number of enemy tribesmen he has downed.
Hawkeye's friendship with the Mohicans is limited to the fact that only two remain; Chingachgook, and his son Uncas. This is somewhat of an advantage though, because it allows Bumppo to become closer to them. His deep ...

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Added: 12/8/2005 02:39:54 AM
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