Brief Summary Of Cora's Tattoos

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Oh, lovely, the feisty sister speaks out for the guy she suddenly loves, I guess? How are we supposed to guess that she has feelings for him when she's been in captivity for most of the book? That's beside the point, she had something to say, and the prompt has deemed it relevant enough for me to write about it.

Cora bravely thrusts herself to the floor in a desperate plea for mercy that falls on the ears of Tamenund, who surprisingly, doesn't seem to care that much. He does hear what she has to say, which in that time, must have been a surprising and exceptionally just gesture. She complains and appeals to him as a father and asks him to listen to Uncas, because through some sort of magical kind-of-love telepathy, she knows he has something important to say. I guess she was trying to save Uncas' life through the power of not only an Indian's respect for their kin, but because everyone will listen to the words of a man, especially after a woman begs for it.
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He ends up having the all-important turtle tattoo, and is the chief or something. The old English mixed with French and the already patchy dialogue made it very difficult to understand anything. In conclusion, I feel like this book tried far too hard to reach a non-existent goal of portraying some sort of

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