The Career of James Fennimore Cooper

James Fennimore Cooper was a romantic writer in the mid 1880s. Cooper wrote to entertain and wasn’t held back by the rules of literature, which were set forth by the boring writers of his time. Cooper in his work exaggerated greatly, this however was not a flaw of Coopers. Cooper was harassed greatly by Mark Twain because of Coopers wide imagination and unique style of writing.   Twain tried to state that Cooper was a terrible writer and that when it came to literature, Cooper broke about every rule in literary law. These accusations against Cooper however are garbage, and come from the jealous mind of twain. Cooper added adventure and excitement like no other writer before him had, and a person could be entertained for hours by picking out the crazy parts of Cooper’s stories. Cooper was on of the most entertaining writers of his time, and the criticisms from Twain were   bogus.



Before Cooper started writing himself, he spent many hours reading to himself and to his family. Cooper however grew tired of the dull books he was reading, so he took it into his own hands to come up with something more entertaining. Coopers main purpose of writing was to entertain, so he did not concentrate on trying to use perfect grammar or using the perfect word for what was being said. The protagonists in Coopers stories were stronger, faster, and a better shot then any other man they confronted. Making the protagonist in the story so perfect made the reader have great respect for him, and made the reader cheer for the protagonist.





Cooper wrote to entertain, not to try to see how many laws of physics he could follow, or to perfect his usage of words. Cooper wrote about miraculous things such as the Pathfinder shooting a nail that is stuck in a tree from a hundred yards away or Chingachgook turning a running stream out of its course to find the tracks of his enemies. Of coarse Cooper knew that these ideas were a little far fetched, but he new with out these ideas the...