Margaret Fuller’s Summer On The Lakes is a historical nonfiction book based on the experiences during her travels around the Great Lakes region. The book is full of transcendentalist ideas and feelings of self-reliance, along with feelings of completeness and confusion as the ideas get deeper and deeper. Fuller expresses her feeling through her poetry, and within that poetry there are signs of a longing of a trouble-free life, and in other cases life with a large amount of untapped potential, hidden behind the large curtain which is a large portion of life which happens to be our everyday work. Another source of her feelings are found pouring out through her experiences and how she encounters some of the greatest sights in her life. She talks
