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Article: Let Boys Be Boys.(Review)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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A few months ago, my 13-year-old son read James Fenimore Cooper s The Last of the Mohicans in school. From a teenage boy s point of view this great story of frontier life in eighteenth-century New York state has it all--Indians, Redcoats, bears, daring escapes, even a sharpshooting hero named Hawkeye. It also includes, very tangentially, a light romantic plot.
When it came time to write an essay about the story, my son enthusiastically whipped up something in you-are-there diary form, chronicling first-person battles with wild animals, racing rivers, and duplicitous enemies. As a finishing touch he added drops of artificial blood to an entry that tailed off in ...