Re: Dear Mohicanland Trekker

Posted by Gayle on November 06, 1999 at 11:22:13:

In Reply to: Re: Dear Mohicanland Trekker posted by Chris on November 06, 1999 at 10:22:39:

: : I just wonder how easy it would have been for a prime and proper lady from England to just lay down on the ground and sleep.

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: Hello all,
: My first thought when watching that scene was, what about chiggers, or poison ivy? Or "bugs" or snakes?
: Chris

The circumstances being what they were, her only other choice was to stand up all night. What surprises me is that, while in the book, Hawkeye and Uncas positively competed with each other to construct warm and comfortable beds of grass and branches and leaves for Cora and Alice, both in the caves at Glenns and in the blockhouse by the spring, in the movie neither Alice nor Cora were attended to at all when it came time to find a bed. The first concern of all the men in the book was to see that the "gentle ones" were as protected as possible, and that the rigors of the situation should not wear too harshly on them. Cora I could see making do, but I found it hard to believe that even she didn't make a bed of some sort for Alice - and even more surprising that Alice didn't whine about it.

Gayle

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• Re: Dear Mohicanland Trekker...Uncas/ Natty Dana S. 15:59:16 11/06/99 (1)
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: : : I just wonder how easy it would have been for a prime and proper lady from England to just lay down on the ground and sleep.

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: : Hello all,
: : My first thought when watching that scene was, what about chiggers, or poison ivy?  Or "bugs" or snakes?
: : Chris

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: The circumstances being what they were, her only other choice was to stand up all night.  What surprises me is that, while in the book, Hawkeye and Uncas positively competed with each other to construct warm and comfortable beds of grass and branches and leaves for Cora and Alice, both in the caves at Glenns and in the blockhouse by the spring, in the movie neither Alice nor Cora were attended to at all when it came time to find a bed.  The first concern of all the men in the book was to see that the "gentle ones" were as protected as possible, and that the rigors of the situation should not wear too harshly on them. Cora I could see making do, but I found it hard to believe that even she didn't make a bed of some sort for Alice - and even more surprising that Alice didn't whine about it.

: Gayle 


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