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Reflection on //The Last of the Mohicans//

Disagreement has been an everyday thing since the beginning if time. Animals fight over food and prey and humans fight over who did the dishes or not. Everyone has disagreements, especially the Native Americans and Europeans when they first arrived in America. //The last of the Mohicans// is a novel that is entirely based on disagreements between the Americans and the British and French that eventually evolved into war and battle. The main part of the story is how the three groups interact with each other, some were alliances and some were not so pretty. These relationships make the plot of the story so interesting and people can relate to them in their everyday lives.

First, the French have become allies with the Native Americans. They want to fight for what they want, but they don't want to necessarily fight themselves. That is why they have become allies with the Huron tribe si they can fight for them. This way they are getting what they want without any losses. The Native Americans are very grateful of the French for letting them fight in their place because they have some problems with the British that they would like to settle.

Second, the British and the Native Americans are at war because the French and British are at war. Instead of fighting off the French in an orderly matter like they did in the 17th and 18th century, they have to fight off the blood thirsty Huron tribe that does not show any signs of retreat or surrender. The Native Americans are fighting for the French because they want revenge on the British for humiliation and torture towards their people. Happily fighting the British, the Native Americans continue to slaughter them.

Last, the relationships between the British and French goes back three years when the war began. Fighting for land and territory, the colonies have been attacking each other for a long time. That was until the French decided to hire the Native Americans to help them fight off the British so they wouldn't have to. At the end of the novel, war was still waging on between the two colonies and would not come to an halt until six years later.

The relationships between the colonies and the Huron tribe in the story were not necessarily friendly ones, but they did fill a huge part of the novel. Disagreement did play a huge role in this novel with the Native Americans and French fighting the British, but it also had partnerships and alliances like the Native Americans and the French. The relationships in the story were mostly negative, but it created an excellent story of revenge, war, and friendship.