The story follows three frontiersmen, Chingachgook, the last chief of the Mohican tribe, Uncas, Chingachgook’s son, and Nathaniel “Hawkeye” Poe, Chingachgook’s adopted white son, Major Duncan Heyward of the British Army, and Colonel Edmund Munro’ two daughters, Cora and Alice. Chingachgook and his sons met and ate with a local village family and tell them that they were trying to find a place to settle. Meanwhile, Major Heyward was tasked with escorting Colonel Munro’s daughters to their father in Fort William Henry. Before they departed, Heyward proposed to Cora and received no definite answer. Heyward’s guide, a Huron tribe warrior named Magua, led Heyward and his group of British soldiers into an ambush and all of the British soldiers were killed. Heyward and the daughters are saved thanks to Chingachgook and his sons who were passing through.
Chingachgook and his sons led Heyward and Munro’s daughters to Fort William Henry to find that the fort was under siege by the French. They …show more content…
Hawkeye, Chingachgook, Uncas, Cora, Alice, and Heyward escaped the fighting via two canoes down a river. Hawkeye and the Mohicans were able to escape Magua by jumping down a waterfall and Cora, Alice, and Heyward were taken as prisoners. Magua presented the women and the British officer to a Huron village chief in hopes of gaining recognition. Hawkeye interrupted and pleaded for the lives of the prisoners with Heyward as a translator. The chief decided that the British officer was to be set free, Alice was to be given to Magua, and Cora was to be burned alive. Hawkeye asked Heyward to tell the chief that he wanted to give his life in Cora’s place. Instead, Heyward told them that he would take Cora’s place. As Hawkeye and Cora were fleeing, Hawkeye shot Heyward in the head before he was burned to spare him the