Naty Bumppo Romantic Hero

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Natty Bumppo, is a romantic hero from the movie/novel of The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Natty Bumppo (aka Hawkeye) lived in peace beside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, “Hawkeye” and Uncas must rescue them in the gunfire of a terrifying military conflict of which they wanted no part in and also know as the French and Indian War. In this case, Natty Bumppo, as a romantic hero does a lot of sacrifice for people, he has great human achievement, and he also love nature. Natty Bumppo does a lot of sacrifice for people in the movie/novel of The Last of the Mohicans. Natty shows this by fighting for the two british colonist daughters, Alice and Cora. He fights for them when this huge gunfire was going on. He had to fight all of these guys to get to them before one of the people grabbed them and killed them. He got there just in time, the oldest sister's, Cora …show more content…
Natty shows this by his amazing aim and good eyesight. When he was fight with the british he had great shot. Especially when he was fight to go get Alice and her sister Cora. He had to walk up in peace, then a british soldier volunteered to take cora's place so they took him and cora's younger sister Alice. They burned the british solder over the fire and he was suffering so Natty shot him to make him not sufferer anymore. Then they had Alice as a prisoner and so Natty and the other were going to go rescue her but she jumped off the cliff so she didn't have to be held captive. Still Natty and the others shot the people that were holding her captive and they didn't miss a shot. This shows how he has a excellent aim and sight because he never missed even even he didn't aim, that's why he is called

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