The leap by louise erdrich analysis

Bentley English III Honors 10 October Summary of The Leap The Leap is a story told by the daughter of the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, who is now blind due to her stubborn cataracts and does not speak of or have anything in memory of her trapeze days. The narrators main idea of the story focuses on how she owes her mom her existence three times. The story begins by the narrator telling about the first incident in which she owes her mom her existence. Before she was born, the narrators mother, Anna Avalon, was in a famous trapeze act called the Flying Avalons with her husband. On a beautiful summer day in New Hampshire, the Flying Avalons were getting ready to perform at the local circus, without the thought that the weather would change dramatically without warning. As Anna, who was pregnant at the time, and Harry were performing, lightning struck the main tent pole and made its way down the husbands wires and he began to fall from the air. With the choice of grabbing his hand and falling with him to her death as well, Anna decided to grab the guy wire and save herself.

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