The saying “there are always two sides to every story”. William Apess was an advocate of civil rights for Native Americans. James Fenimore Cooper was a writer who aided in developing the future course of American fiction. Apes and Cooper writing showed Native American in different ways to the readers. The visual arts and literature display in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century America has provided revealing guides to assumptions about the Native American. Native Americans were most often portrayed harshly terms because of their differences, which elided into a handful of labels that concentrated on their interactions with whites more than on their pre-contact cultural identities. Native American has been subjective to labeling
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The venerable images of Indians were learned from other white writers. In the novel “Last of the Mohican, cooper personified good and bad by tribe and individual. For example Uncas and his father Chingachgook and the evil Magua. In the book, he characterizes them in two group, one is the noble savages and the other the ignoble savages. In addition, writing about he Indians was not something he wanted for himself but a competition against another writer “he bet his wife that he could write a better novel than the British novel” (Baym, 483). Cooper believe that the Indians was barbarians.
On the other hand, Apess writing was more personal. He understands the lives of the Indians. In “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”, Apess look at the character of the white and said that you call us savages and uneducated people but you are the evilest beings. The mean focus in his work is the failure of white men to see the irony and hypocrisy in denying Native Americans the rights guaranteed from God to all mankind. His wiring about the Indians is impassioned and sensitive. Apess work express the humiliation felt by Native American people and the treatment they receive by the white
The venerable images of Indians were learned from other white writers. In the novel “Last of the Mohican, cooper personified good and bad by tribe and individual. For example Uncas and his father Chingachgook and the evil Magua. In the book, he characterizes them in two group, one is the noble savages and the other the ignoble savages. In addition, writing about he Indians was not something he wanted for himself but a competition against another writer “he bet his wife that he could write a better novel than the British novel” (Baym, 483). Cooper believe that the Indians was barbarians.
On the other hand, Apess writing was more personal. He understands the lives of the Indians. In “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”, Apess look at the character of the white and said that you call us savages and uneducated people but you are the evilest beings. The mean focus in his work is the failure of white men to see the irony and hypocrisy in denying Native Americans the rights guaranteed from God to all mankind. His wiring about the Indians is impassioned and sensitive. Apess work express the humiliation felt by Native American people and the treatment they receive by the white