Hawkeye

Hawkeye is the main character of the novel, and before we get to know him, before giving his name, the author James Fenimore Cooper offers a portrait characteristic and the main attention is given to Natty’s eyes that they were small, fast, restless, continually surprised and always moved to the right, then to the left, as if in search of a victim or some kind of surprise, or in anticipation of the approach of the enemy.  Also, the author notes that "his appearance seemed to radiate honesty." Hawkeye appears in the book in its prime, 32 years old, where his personality is already fully formed, and he is still full of strength and energy. His parents were killed. Therefore, he was raised in the tribe of the Delaware Indians, one of the Mohican warriors named as Chingachgook. For many years he lived in the forests of New York with Uncas and Chingachgook. Natty is a conservative in all senses of the word and wishes with all his heart to preserve the old customs, which he often recalls with his friend, the Indian Chingachgook. Therefore, longing for the past is characterizing the trait Hawkeye.

During the war of the English and French for American territory, Natty fights with the Mohicans on the side of the British, where he served as a conductor and scout. He is a famous pathfinder and scout Falcon Eye, who knows every forest path, customs of the Indians who have entered the warpath. He feels like a master in the virgin forests; he wants to be useful to people. And the noble, magnanimous and disinterested The Great Snake and his son Unkas, the last of the Mohicans, are true friends and companions of Natty, with whom he is sent to liberate the Munro sisters from captivity.

Hawkeye considers itself to be Chingachgook's brother and therefore refers to Uncas as a son, with all the love and care. The main character calls itself "a man without a cross," that is, he does not refer himself to the Christian religion and sees himself as existing between the Indian and European cultures of the New World.