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Genre  

Sentimental novel, adventure novel, frontier romance

Narrator  

Anonymous

Point of View 

Third person. The narrator follows the actions of several characters at once, especially during combat scenes. He describes characters objectively but periodically makes reference to his own writing.

Tone  

Ornate, solemn, sentimental, occasionally poetic

Tense  

Past

Setting (time)  

Several days from late July to mid-August 1757, during the French and Indian War

Setting (place)  

The American wilderness frontier in what will become New York State .

Protagonist  

Hawkeye

Major Conflict  

The English battle the French and their Indian allies; Uncas helps his English friends resist Magua and the Hurons.

Rising Action  

Magua captures Cora and Alice, beginning a series of adventures for the English characters, who try to rescue the women.

Climax  

Uncas triumphs over Magua in the Delaware council of Tamenund in Chapter 30.

Falling Action  

Magua dies; Cora and Uncas are torn apart.

Foreshadowing  

Cora’s unexpected attraction to Magua in Chapter 1; Magua’s deceit in Chapter 1; Chingachgook’s reference to Uncas as the “last of the Mohicans” in Chapter 2.

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