The French army in The Last of The Mohicans are much more deserving to stay in North America than the British army due to them having the Native Americans on their side. The Native Americans are the original inhabitants of North America and therefore whoever they support deserves to stay in North America more. The British do not deserve to stay in North America because of how badly they treated the Native Americans tribes. Magua, a member of the Huron tribe has pure hatred for the British and especially General Monroe. He hates them because they killed many members of his tribes and have stolen all of their rightful lands from them. The British were very greedy and just wanted more and more land that was no their own and did not care what happens to the natives as long as they get what they want. The British didn’t even respect the colonists and tried to control them in the beginning, even though the colonists were on their side. It portrays how much the British like to control everything and fear any freedom given to people. According to Magua, the British army killed his children, burned his village, took him and other natives as slaves, and caused his wife to leave him after thinking he was dead. This shows why the native Indians hated the British and brought them so much pain, in that that they had no choice but to support the French army in the war. The Natives wanted to seek revenge on all the chaos that the British had caused them and joining the opposite side of the war is the best way. The French army did not harm the Natives as much as the British did so immensely. The Hurons know that if the British are defeated it will benefit them as they know if the British win it will be the end for them. While they know not to trust any white man, they understand that “The enemy of my enemy becomes my friend” and that since the British are their enemy it will make sense to support the French. The French army might not be the best, but they deserved to stay in North America more than the British as they did not harm the Native Americans as much as the British army did.
2. Jo in Little Women changed the most from the way she was a child to the women she grew into. Jo, in the beginning was very much a tomboy who was very against the patriarchal society during that time. Her father even used to call her his son sometimes because she acted masculine. As she got older, Jo became much more feminine while still trying to defeat the odds of women writing and working during the 1800s. When she was a kid, she always wanted to be an author or writer, but by the end of the story she gave up on that dream and instead started a school in Aunt March’s house. Jo March was very much against marriage in the beginning and she did not understand why her older sister wanted to get married even discouraging her. Even though she had such a strong stance on marriage, at the end of the story she still ended up getting married to Mr. Bhaer. This shows how falling in love changed the perspective that she had for years. The biggest surprise to me was when Jo and Laurie didn’t end up together in the end, even though that’s what the author hinted from the beginning of the story. Amy March also changed as well just not as much as Jo did. Amy grew from being a poor girl barely having enough to eat to becoming a sophisticated etiquette woman who has traveled and is married to a wealthy man. I believe that Amy March got the most out of life as she got all she wanted. She got her dream man Laurie, went to Europe, and became etiquette and sophisticated. I think that Amy was so determined to marry Laurie was because she always envied Jo and knowing marrying her best friend is the best way, However, I still do believe that Amy truly loved Laurie. Amy got the most of out her life because she never actually had to work hard for anything, while Jo did.
3. Once Mary won the poker game in the ending, the other Big Five poker players were all influenced that a woman beat them in the most important game of the year, so they wanted to change. Seeing that Mary was so determined to win the poker game after everything that happened including her husband having to go to the hospital, greatly affected the players from how they were at the beginning of the book to the end. At the beginning of the story, the Big Five players were all very misogynist and complained about how much they disliked women. While at the end, they seem kind of in awe of women after seeing Mary won, they had a lot of respect towards her. The most misogynist in the group, Tropp even stated that he “hates women” and that since he is an undertaker, he states that he puts women back where they belong when he puts them in a grave. This shows that he has extreme hatred probably due to personal issues with women in his life. At the end of the text, he tells the Mary that it was a pleasure to play with her and he even respectfully calls her mam. This shows the influence that Mary had on him in which there is a big difference in how Tropp first felt about women and now in the end he respects Mary and tells a woman in which he has pure hatred for them that it was pleasure playing with her. Another player that changed was Wilcox, at the beginning of the text, he tells the player that he has not seen his wife in months. In the end of the story after seeing Mary winning, he tells the other men in the room that he is going to see his wife. Wilcox seeing how amazing Mary, a woman has inspired him to go back to his own woman. Another poker player that was influenced by Mary is Henry Drummond. Henry is the meanest out of the five and the rudest and he always has something to say. When Henry tells his son in law to not marry his daughter in the end because he knows that he is only in It for money, it shows that he wants better for him. Seeing Mary be so determined to win for her husband made him believe that there is such thing as love. He wants his son in law to find true love and to understand that there are bigger things in life than money. He perhaps understood that money is not the most important thing, after losing so much money in the poker game.
3a. The author Sidney Carroll wants the reader to think that not everything is not what it seems. Being that Mary was only pretending to be an innocent, vulnerable woman no one had a clue what her true identity was. The author wants the reader to think that Mary is a master manipulator who can lure men immediately. She pretended to act like she knew nothing about the game when it turned out that she has been doing gambling heists for years. She got into the men’s head by flirting with them, especially Otto. Otto was in awe of Mary so much that he was the main one defending and helping her. His crush on Mary resulted in him being distracted that she was actually fooling them the entire time. Carroll wants the audience to know that in a poker game be careful to not judge someone immediately and not be so confident that someone is going to lose because you do not know what might happen. The bad guys in the story would be Henry Drummond and Tropp who are very negative and discouraging. The good guy in the story would be Otto and the banker because they both help a “vulnerable woman” when she needs it the most.
4. The strategy of the successful card player in this story is very similar to the strategy for winning the poker game in A Big Hand for the Little Lady. John Backus used very similar strategies to trick the poker players as did the characters in the other story. In both texts they both pretended to be people they were not. John Backus pretended he was an unsophisticated farmer, and so did Meredith as well. They both tried to act like they knew nothing, so the other poker players won’t take them as serious and go easy on them. John Backus tried to act like he knew everything about cattle and farms, as he wanted to sound as unsophisticated as possible. Backus in the beginning tried to pretend that he does not want to gamble, but the other gamblers kept trying to convince him too. Meredith tried to act hesitant to play at first as well. This strategy made the other poker players think that they are really easy targets to defeat and that they are not confident. Both Backus and Meredith used the strategy of pretending that they have been saving money for years in order to trick the other poker players into thinking that if they let them play in the poker game it will be easy money to get from them. John Backus used the strategy of the false flag in which he distracts the other player by acting like he was very drunk and that he cannot function enough to win the game. Meredith and Mary in the other text used that same strategy by making up distractions in every minute. First, they acted like Meredith was sick and had to go to the hospital, then Mary came in and acted like she knew nothing about the game and is doing anything to get their money back, and lastly going to the bank to get the rest of the money. Both of these stories were distractions to make the other players very confused. Another strategy that Backus used is that he had a friend playing inside of the game, so he can deal the fateful hand. In the other text both the doctor and the banker were in on the scheme to work together to win all of that money.