Genre
Historical fiction
Setting and Context
America
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrator
Tone and Mood
Skeptical, romantic, exploratory, uncertain, scary, and aggression
Protagonist and Antagonist
Natty Bumppo - Protagonist; Aggressive Indians - Antagonists
Major Conflict
Natty Bumppo’s star-crossed love for Mabel
Climax
The fierce thunderstorm the group encounters en route to ‘the Thousand Islands.’
Foreshadowing
Smoke such as one from Jasper’s fire foreshadows the presence of humans within the vicinity.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
The French and Indian War is a historical allusion.
Imagery
Canoes are crucial in the course-plotting through the unpredictable, hazardous river.
Paradox
The prospect of using water to light fire is paradoxical: Arrowhead expounds, “Too much water…Tuscarora too cunning to make fire with water!”
Parallelism
Short poems/ quotations at the beginning of each chapter.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Savages denote aggressive Indians.
Red denotes the Native Indians.
Personification
Death is personified.
Devils are personified to represent Indians.
