"The Leap" In-Text Analysis

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In 'The Leap,' the narrator suggests her blind mother can safely navigate their home because...

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She was once part of a blindfold trapeze act.

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After the narrator’s mother in “The Leap” is injured, why is the father called to the hospital?

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He is familiar with treating her sort of injury.

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In 'The Leap,' after remarrying, what is the mother's attitude toward her circus past?

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She seems to have put her past behind her.

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Means of transportation considered superannuated by most Americans:

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stagecoach

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Mother in 'The Leap' jumps onto a burning house to rescue her daughter.

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calm and capable

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Details in 'The Leap' excerpt foreshadow:

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the memory of the fire that the narrator escaped.