These works mirror each other in that Frost's writing "is simple enough for a child to read, but the meaning is complex enough to foster scholarly debates and long essays" (Cummings, n.d.). ... After the purpose is located in this character, it is followed by the perseverance that will be necessary to pioneer the path this traveler has chosen. ... The final detail in character development, which appears to be under debate, is the question of the grandson's mortality. ... Welty herself responds to this debate in a very poignant way, responding: "To the question &apos...

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• 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

The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
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• Grade Level: High School