Last of the Mohicans vs.Twain According to Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper broke eighteen of the nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction when he wrote Deerslayer. This accusation does not seem to apply to The Last of the Mohicans. The scene describing Duncan, David, Alice, and Cora’s evening spent with Hawk-eye and the Mohicans in the deserted block-house is a prime example which proves Twain wrong. Mark Twain claims …showed first 75 words of 927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 927 total…Mohicans is by no means perfect, Twain could have found much better and more mature judgments to make. It is also unclear as to the nature of these “rules” that Twain is stating, they seem to have no factual basis much like Twain’s entire critique. Mark Twain should have rather used constructive criticism to analyze the mistake made by Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans and presented them in a more professional manner.