First-Person Narration Of The Story 'The Leap'

In the story “The Leap,” the narrator effectively displayed forms of a leap; in a physical way and emotional way. The use of first-person narration is efficacious in conveying the message in a powerful way. The narrator created her mother’s character by using stories that she most likely heard from her mother and built it from her point of view. This aided me as a reader to visualise her mother’s character in her perspective, a daredevil, but a loving, caring and heroic mother. The contrast the narrator made between her life and her mother’s also helped readers to discern how “colourful” and alluring the lifetime of her mother is, compared to her own where she described it as, “my failed life where the land is flat.” The narrator’s mother impressed me at various ways and raised a plethora of questions in my mind, like, “Would I be able to move on like her if a devastating event occurred?” Furthermore, the story taught me personally that a person can successfully move forward even after an unpleasant and …show more content…
She was able to deliver the message profoundly with excellence. A lesson that I learned is, I should leap forward uninterruptedly avoiding “rocks” that can stumble me like: bereavement, illness, stress and more; this will lead me to the bright future that awaits. Perhaps the best way I can relate my life is to make use of the wisdoms I obtained. The story shows that life may be imperfect but people can manage to overcome those imperfections through physical or emotional leaping. Certainly, as time passes I can use the lessons I learned to positively and successfully encounter difficulties just like the narrator’s mother when she saved the narrator in their burning house. She used the skill she learned in circus even after what she experienced. If the mother failed to emotionally leap and move on, she will most like hesitate to use her skills to save her daughter and that could lead to her daughter’s