... . In 1942, Lafferty enlisted in the United States Army and served in World War II until 1946. He achieved the rank of Sergeant and received a New Guinea Campaign Star. Lafferty did not have what people call to day a normal life style. He was of Irish descendant. He was a devoted Roman ... loved to drink, he cut back to give himself more time to write. At age 45, Lafferty began to explore his interest in writing. The New Mexico Quarterly Review published "The Wagons" in 1959, his first short story. In 1968 his first novel was published, Past Master. Lafferty wrote over ... well know bo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... narrator brings some back. The blind man tells him to grab the pen, then puts his hand around the narrator's. The narrator draws a box that looks like a house. He adds spires, great doors and flying buttresses. He finds himself a little excited and can't stop. His wife ... It was thus an intuitive grasp of reality achieved in a quick flash of recognition in which something, usually simple and commonplace, is seen in a new light...." In "Cathedral" the narrator experiences such a flash of insight in the last few lines of the story. With his eyes closed and with ... reasons to discuss its ...

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

... 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 ... text has been strengthened by at least two different readings. Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion is a text that is given new meaning when viewed from differing perspectives. Readers approach the text with their own unique past and experience, which influences their perception and interpretation of ... sen...

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