featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many consider to be his masterpiece. Further information: List of James Fenimore Cooper writings. He anonymously published his first book, Precaution (1820). He soon issued several others under his own name. In 1823, he published The Pioneers; this was the first of the Leatherstocking series, featuring Natty Bumppo, the resourceful American woodsman at home with the Delaware Indians and especially their chief Chingachgook. Cooper's most famous novel, Last of the Mohicans (1826), became one of the most widely read American novels of the nineteenth century. The book was written in a second-story storefront-apartment in Warrensburg, New York, just north of where most of the book's plot takes place. Washington Irving Washington Irving was born in New York City (near present-day Wall Street) at the end of
O f course not all Tests, Alliances, and Enmities are confronted in bars. In many stories, such as The Wizard of Oz, these are simply encounters on the road. At this stage on the Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy acquires her companions the Scarecrow, T i n W o o d s m a n and Cowardly Lion, and makes enemies such as an orchard full of grumpy talking trees. She passes a number of Tests such as getting Scarecrow off the nail, oiling the T i n Woodsman, and helping the Cowardly Lion deal with his fear. In Star Wars the Tests continue after the cantina scene. Obi Wan teaches Luke about the Force by making him fight blindfolded. T h e early laser battles with the Imperial fighters are another Test which Luke successfully passes. 7 . APPROACH TO THE I N M O S T CAVE T h e hero comes at last to the edge of a dangerous place, sometimes deep underground, where the object of the quest is hidden
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