(Short Blog Post)
An interesting quote that I just read today in my choice GAN book is as follows, “Without removing the safeguards form his ears, the master of song complied, and together they pursued their way toward what David was sometimes wont to call the “tents of the Philistines.” The context of the quote is the two characters talking, Major Duncan Heyward (A British Major) and David Gamut (A Psalm singer from Connecticut), are going into the enemy Native American villiage to try and rescue one of the daughters of the local British Colonel. The quote is comparing the village of the Huran Native American tribe as the Philistines, the enemy of the Israelites out of the bible. As noted above, David is a very religious Puritan type from New England, and a lot of his quotes throughout the book are very religious. A major theme so far in the book has been to refer to and portray the main characters and their civilized British ways as good, and the French and their Native Allies as savages. And even though religious warfare had factored out of the European mind during the 1600’s, it is interesting to note how the two sides, Protestant British and Catholic French, still view each other as less holy then the other. I think that this conflict is still a minor one, but one that needs to be understood in the novel,(and in the real world,) in order to completely understand the plot.
Great American Novels 