Negatives of Frontierism
Three writers, in their own times, had written stories and touched on the negatives of frontierism. Cooper, Irving, and Twain, have all touched on the repercussions of the expansion westward, ranging from racism to the destruction of entire peoples and the environment.In The Deerslayer, Cooper expresses the racism toward the Indian people through a white settler who killed an Indian, “…’Twould ill become me to take a wife, under red-skin forms, from among heathen…none but a woman of my own color and gifts shall darken the door of my wigwam.” Cooper also utilizes an Indian chief to tell how the Indian people feared being destroyed by the expansion of whites, “The redmen are few already; they have n
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Approximate Word count = 491
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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