- Sinclair Ross. The Lamp At Noon and Other Stories. New York: Penguin Modern Classics, 2018.
- D. Storr. "THE GREAT PRAIRIE BLIZZARD OF 15 DECEMBER 1964." Royal Meteorological Society. December 1965. 13 April 2021. <https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1965.tb05166.x>.
- "Prairie Blizzard Survival." The Prairie Ecologist. 8 February 2016. 13 April 2021. <https://prairieecologist.com/2016/02/08/prairie-blizzard-survival/>.
- "Little House on the Prairie: Blizzard." IMDb. 13 April 2021. <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0632981/>.
The Painted Door Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for The Painted Door is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The rural, wintery setting, provides suspense and foreshadowing throughout the story.
Asked by
matthew c #1265091
Answered by
jill d #170087
This story is an example of Canadian “Prairie fiction.” This genre of writing appeared in the early twentieth century, and was characterized by realistic characters and landscape. Consider the very first sentence of the story: it illustrates...
Asked by
Kadia j #1191215
Answered by
Aslan
Steven is a handsome young farmer who lives a mile from John and Ann. Steven visits Ann while John is away, as John asks him to. Steven smiles at Ann in a confident, condescending way. He gradually convinces her that John will not come home that...
Asked by
lena k #1176147
Answered by
Aslan
