Your Discussion Board will focus on the captivity narratives and the film The Last of the Mohicans. You have supporting materials you are encouraged to refer to.
1. Mary Rowlandson primary source and comment substantively in your discussion
– Make sure to talk about what are the key events and the way the events impacted the author. Also, what attitudes about life and about the Indians (native Americans) are conveyed by the author?
2. Questions to think about when watching THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992)
– Question 1. Cora faces an important life choice about marriage, not marriage, or maybe something else as the movie gets underway. Why do you think Cora makes the choices she makes? What sort of life is she embracing, and what sort of life is she giving up? Do you applaud her choice, or do you question it?
– Question 2: Describe Hawkeye and Uncas and Chingachook’s relationship to the settlers (in the log cabin). Hawkeye takes a stand for the settlers: why? Is it strange that he refuses to bury his settler friends?
