In “The Leap,” the narrator recaps on her mother’s past as a circus performer to give her daughter the heroic gift of life. The mother had been through a lot before having her first child die. Even though she was blind in the last part of her life, she never struggled doing anything for herself. She was so talented that she was able to fall from in the air and change directions to grab the pole and save her life. This story has many foreshadows which I’ll be explaining. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story. There are
