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Character Analysis Of The Leap

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The story “The Leap” is about a blind mother, her name is Anna. Anna was part of a blindfolded trapeze act. The daughter of Anna narrates the story and tells readers about times in the trapeze act or how Anna met her husband and other major events in Anna's life, at some points the daughter plays a role, and has her own moments in the story. Later near the end of the story the daughter tells readers about when her house caught on fire and Anna saved her daughter from this event. Anna is a round and dynamic character in “The Leap”. We learn more about Anna than we do any other character and she becomes part of every element of plot exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution in some way shape or form. Anna is not a …show more content…

Anna is a dynamic character because of the facts we know about her and that we learn almost her entire history. We know her personality and her background by the end of the story we know how she reacts to situations and other behavioral traits characters becomes well known by the reader. Anna has a major inflection with plot, in the exposition Anna’s daughter (the narrator) delivers readers a brief overview of Anna's life and her career also what her daily life is in modern time and even describes what it's like living with Anna. The exposition is very calm and event free until we begin to dwell into the rising action. In the rising action readers can begin to see tension as conflicts and problems occur. Readers also begin to bond with the characters as dialogue helps raise tension the reader can relate or know exactly what is happening to the character and what they are thinking at the time. Anna’s daughter helps raise tension by narrating and summarizing events to help give readers a better understanding of what is going on through events and the mind of a character, this can also help a reader become more entertained as well as help the reader begin to relate even more with the character. The rising action can be full of stressful tension rising events, but this all sums up after the climax begins and everything is at it's peak of tension in the event. everything unfolds even the greater conflicts and events. In the case of “The Leap”, The narrator's house catches

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