How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"If you are led into the woods, that is such of you as may be spared for awhile, break the twigs on the bushes as you pass, and make the marks of your trail as broad as you can, when, if mortal eyes can see them, depend on having a friend who will follow to the ends of the 'arth afore he desarts you." (8.46)
This is the first time Hawkeye swears friendship to Cora. Is his declaration of friendship platonic, in your opinion, or do you think he wants friendship with benefits?
Quote #5
"The poor fellow has mistaken us for French," said Heyward; "or he would not have attempted the life of a friend." (19.45)
Heyward reveals his naivete, as per usual. While everyone else is reveling in a pretty awesome multicultural multi-ethnic friendship fest, Heyworth is off in the corner being closed-minded.
Quote #6
"I have heard," he said, "that there is a feeling in youth which binds man to woman closer than the father is tied to the son. It may be so. I have seldom been where women of my color dwell; but such may be the gifts of nature in the settlements. You have risked life, and all that is dear to you, to bring off this gentle one, and I suppose that some such disposition is at the bottom of it all." (25.86)
Hawkeye talks about romantic love in a way that makes it clear he has never experienced it. The only relationships important to him, therefore, are the friendships he forges with others.