ABSTRACT
Dennis Covington’s Lizard takes its readers along on a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance, a journey often found in literature, but rarely treated so imaginatively and compellingly. Explicit and implicit parallels with William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in character, plot, theme, and structure make the two works mutually enlightening. The parallels, which are shifting and ambiguous, provide high school students with opportunities for genuinely heuristic experiences in reading, writing, and discussing.
