Question

To what other kind of "The Leap" might the title refer?

Answer 1

1)Her first physical leap is that of one of the Flying Avalons as she saves her life in the storm that toppled the big top.

2)Her second physical leap is that of climbing a tree and leaping from a branch that hangs over the roof of her house so that she can rescue her daughter from the burning bedroom

3)Her figurative leap is that of learning to read in the hospital where she meets her second husband, the physician who set her arm and read to her while it mended.

Anna Avalon has told her daughter that as one flies through the air there is definitely time to think. "I know that she's right." The narrator's mother has

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Answer 2

The title could refer to her days as a circus performer when she was performing the trapeze and the storm hit and she had to leap in order to save her life. Also when the narrator was stuck in her room because of the fire and the mother leaped from the thin branch to the roof in hopes of saving her daughter.