Because Mother Savage was known to "have money- she would be assigned four Prussian soldiers to come into her home. ... Is it possible that she wanted the families of the Prussian soldiers to share in the grief that she was in; most likely when the text states: "This one has their names on it so you can write home about them."" ... Two years before the birth of Katherine O'Flaherty (Kate Chopin), in 1848, there was a Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York with the intention to create better lives for women. ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Puritans voyaged to America in search of religious freedom that they were not being granted in their former homes in Europe. ... He exaggerated their gloominess and their intolerance and probably attributed their persecution of sexual offenses to ideas other than those they actually held. ...

• Word Count: 3188
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School