Hawkeye As A Hero Essay

The Last Mohicans Natty Bumppo called Hawkeye is a native Indian hero who faces different struggles along his journey. But as a hero, he has moral codes and guidelines he has to follow and it is wrong for him to break those rules. On his journey he runs into an enemy Huron Indian and gets put into situations along with near death experiences “The savages were so near, that the least motion in one of the horses, or even a breath louder than common, would have betrayed the fugitives.” He also had to break his moral code in a good way to do the right thing for good people. Hawkeye uses all his senses to become a hero. Hawkeyes moral codes revolve around doing the right thing and has to deal with a lot of respect. His codes are that he won’t …show more content…
He always kept the girls out of danger the most he could and would know what to do when the time would come. (When the Indians attacked the British, Hawkeye made his way all the way from the back to the front to save the girls and managed to kill a couple people on the way there, so the girls could be in good hands.) Hawkeye could of just left that fight since it wasn’t his fight but he stayed to help out the British. Another time is when the Huron Indians took Duncan and we're gonna burn him alive. Hawkeye broke his moral code to never shoot a man unarmed. But shot Duncan when he was hung up getting burnt so he wouldn’t be in pain. Because generosity got to him, he decided to the right thing.
All three of Hawkeyes senses codes, generosity, and resourcefulness make him who he is. It also makes him the hero he is because without these senses Hawkeye would of never became a hero. In the story he will use every sense and he will be in situations to use every sense. Hawkeye’s adopted father and brother learned how to the live the way the live and be who they are by living outside civilizations. The way they live revolves around who they really