... and setting the tone and the scene for many other American novels, including some of his own that were yet to come: the temporal and geographical locales of colonial and revolutionary America, the frontier and the sea. In The Last of the Mohicans, the frontier is both a place and a condition made up of opposite, usually conflicting forces. The very hot nature of a frontier is that it is the demarcating area where ... westward. Cooper can envelop this situation convincingly because it is history extending into his own lifetime: during the 1820's and 1830's the United States policy of Rem...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... from the normal river it once was and into this wild beast about to overflow. Louise was revealing that something was going to change when the brothers went to visit it. Louise then uses her feelings to describe the soldiers of the Vietnam conflict era as being brainwashed and emotionless. She does this when Henry jumps into the water, and instead of yelling for help like any other ... into three parts, yet they are not in chronological order. The first part of the story gives the reader the detail of what was about to happen, a bridge being guarded and a man about to be hung. It also gi...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... as it helps Quick and Rose find fulfillment in each other. Winton also makes a positive comment on the importance of family in Cloudstreet through the use of symbolism. In this case, the house as a whole, and the aboriginal man are used a symbol to prove this. Firstly, the note of middle C that recurs throughout the novel in the house is used as a symbol for how family can ... as an integral and important part of life through the use of symbolism. The main symbols used to present meaning here are the symbolic representations of the characters of the Lambs and Pickles families, and the ...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8