I. Some knowledge points the students will grasp.
The Spy by Cooper was a rousing tale about espionage (间谍活动) against the British during the Revolutionary War.
Cooper launched two kinds of immenly popular stories the a adventure tale and the frontier saga.
Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the fives novels that compri the Leather-Stocking Tales.
In their order of events, the novels in the Leather-Stocking Tales玉米烫 are the Deerslayer, the Last of the Mohicans, the Pathfinder, the Pioneers and the Prairie.
The central figure in the novels, Natty Bumppo , goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.
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What kind of myth did Cooper create in his “Leather-Stocking Tales”?
In his “Leather-Stocking Tales” Cooper creates an American hero-myth. The hero’s name is Natty Bumpoo, who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye. Natty Bumpoo proves himlf a perfect example of the western man, shaped by the forest in which he lives, and who has broken away from the falsity of civilization and demonstrates basic human virtues like kindness, wisdom, bravery and rustic(纯朴的) chivalry.
A Brief Introduction to Leather-Stocking Tales
Leatherstocking Tales is a ries of novels t in the early frontier period of American history. The Deerslayer depicts Natty Bumppo's experiences as a young man. The events take place in the 1840s in the upstate偏僻的 New York, where Deerslayer is joined by his Mohican friend, Chingachgook, to rescue two frontiersmen. The Last of the Mohicans赵云怎么死的 is t in the 1757 during the Seven Years' War between the French and the British. Hawkeye / Bumppo and his friends Chingachgook and Uncas with a group of English civil
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ians are betrayed by their Indian guide Magua. Hawkeye revenges the death of his friend Uncas and an English lady, Cora, and kills Magua. The Pathfinder is also t during the war, and tells a story of betrayal and love. Jasper Western, a sailor is suspected of being disloyal to the English, is arrested to the despair of Mabel, who is in love with him. The real traitor is Muir - the lieutenant中尉 who had accud Jasper. He is killed by Arrowhead, a Tuscarora Indian. The Pioneers is t in 1793 in Otgo County in the recently ttled region of New York State. Natty Bumppo, now known as Leatherstocking, and his friend Oliver Edwards befriend Judge Temple and his daughter Elisabeth. Chingachgook dies in a forest fire in spite of Bumppo's efforts to save him. Oliver Edward's lost grandfather is found and Oliver and Elisabeth are betrothed订婚 at the end. The Prairie is t in 1804. Natty Bumppo meets a wagon train and helps it to evade an Indian raiding party. The travelers endure a prairie fire, a buffalo （使）且焉置土石翻译stampede惊跑, and capture by the Sioux. In the end of the tale Bumppo peacefully dies on the prairie, surrounded by his friends." A valiant, a just, and a wi warrior, has gone on the path which will lead him to the blesd grounds of his people!" he said. "When the voice of the
Wahcondah called him, he was ready to answer. Go, my children; remember the just chief of the Palefaces, and clear your own tracks from briers多刺木质茎植物!"
Discuss the characteristics of Cooper’s works by referring to the lection.
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a. His plot is usually concerned with the a adventure and the frontier saga.预备党员优缺点
写给三年后的自己b. His protagonist is an American hero with basic human virtues like kindness, wisdom, bravery, tenderness, friendship, gratitude, filial affection and rustic (纯朴的) chivalry.
c. His characters are stereotyped (老套的) and wooden.
d. His language is vivid, impressive, realistic and touching.
