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
Due to the novel’s reverse chronological order, the reader often draws parallels and fills in the gaps as the novel progresses. An example of this is on page 9, where Anna confides her sentiments to the reader, stating that losing herself, “in someone else’s thoughts is the greatest relief I can find from the burden of my own memories.” This is later built upon in the novel, where the source of her gloomy sentiments is revealed to the reader.
change the course of the story, as well as the reader’s own view of the characters.
Anna’s id appears to be the dominant aspect of her personality, especially in the beginning of the story,
After she had made it through the rough part of her experience, her perspective on life changed. Anna's time in the hospital helped her to see things
faced with another one, and endures it with more strength and courage than the last one.
The author, Emmy Laybourne tells the story of a group of kids who face many challenges. She uses the main character, Dean, to tell the story based off of his viewpoint of events. Dean writes the events in a notebook, filling the reader in on the past to give details of the plot. Ms. Laybourne writes the book based off of the viewpoint of a character so the readers can connect closely to the narrator. This helps her writing style because there is not a point where the flow of the narration is interrupted, but instead, it keeps the same
In 1985, Sudan was in the middle of a civil war. The civil war started because the Northern Sudan wanted the Southern Sudan, largely a non-Muslim country, to give up their own religion and custom and become Muslims. Not wanting to give up their custom, the Dinka, Nuer, and other ethnic group from Southern Sudan joined forces and fought with the Northern Sudan. During the war many people fled their hometown and went to refugee camps in other countries, Ethiopia and later Kenya. One of these people is called Salva Dut and his story was written in a novel called, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. The novel writes Salva’s many difficult circumstances that he has experience because of the war in Sudan. Having to walk to Akobo Desert to go
In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva shows that you have to work hard for success.
In the incredible novel written by Linda Sue Park,A Long Walk to Water, there were two stories of a girl in 2008 and the main character Salva Mawien Dut Ariik.Salva is a 11 year old boy who has lost his family and i running away from the second Sudanese war in 1985.Salva had to use these survival factors to survive the long and grueling trip,resourceful,perseverance, and courageous.Salva is a real person who survived this long trek and lost his family in this hostile environment.
A lot of people these days don't have access to clean water, and we were reading a book called A Long Walk To Water in our class. In the text they talked a lot about one main character called Salva and his adventure from South Sudan to America. In the text Salva did a lot of things that made him like a hero. There are a lot of reasons of what makes him a hero. But there is three critical reasons for me on what made him a hero or what makes a hero.
One of the main points the author tries to convey to the reader throughout this story is to
As the author narrates the story, these key features will advance the plot and help the reader to learn more about the protagonists. When the story begins, we learn that Martha is happily staying
Salva the main character of “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park was an 11-year old boy when his village was attacked. His teacher urged him to run away from the village and to run to the “bush.” After that attack, his life made a turn for the worse. With no family around him, he was completely lost. During his journey, he had some problems, but overcame
Imagine being at school one day then the teacher getting interrupted by gunshots. RUN, that's all he hears as the gunshots slowly start fading away. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water who is an 11 year old boy on a constant struggle to escape the war with his uncle and finding food and water on the way, while also being stuck in refugee camps, needing to find water and trying to complete his biggest goal, finding his family.The factors that helped salva survive the harsh environment were his self reliance, perseverance, and lastly his leadership qualities.
First, the structure of the story reflects Anna's state of mind. The events in the story seem to take place with a total disregard for timekeeping.