Everything you need to understand or teach The Leopard Is Loose by Stephen Harrigan.
Stephen Harrigan's novel The Leopard is Loose takes place in the early 1950s in Oklahoma City when Grady is a five-year-old boy. He and his brother Danny live with their mother and her family. The boys lost their father to a military accident before Grady's birth. Narrating his own story more than 70 years later, Grady recalls the excitement when a leopard escaped from the zoo. Though exciting, that incident was relatively secondary to the struggles of individual family members and the social climate of the 1950s. The novel's main themes are family relationships, the excitement of danger, the effects of war, love and sacrifice, and racism.
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