1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
This story is about the life of a woman, Anna Avalon who took great physical risks as a blindfolded trapeze performer, and now lost her sight along with her balance, coordination and her career. Her partner in trapeze performance was her husband, Harry Avalon and he passed away during performance with the accident, and their baby girl, her first child, inside her womb died along with him. In her 2nd marriage, their house got on fire and the narrator, the child was still inside the house. No one could rescue her because she was way up too high in her room, Anna got help and went up, then rescued her by receiving her jumping from the room with her trapeze skill. They all connected to her former career, trapeze performer and to her current child, the narrator of the story.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
The main events of the story are arranged chronologically.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
The story was narrated by the daughter of the main character. It was mostly narrated by flashbacks.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
The plot is fast-paced.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
Harry Avalon has lost his concentration during the performance and made the mistake, losing the sense of direction and missing his partner's grip, which led to his death. Anna was injured and was kept in hospital, where she met her new love and got married after getting her hope back. She regain her confidence to save her daughter in the fire by using her former career, trapeze skill. The characters made a slight mistake which led to disaster in the plot. But she regain her confidence and happiness throughout the plot with her hope and desire and was able to save her child with her act.
6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
There are not much conflicts in the plot except the conflicts with their own selves. Anna had a conflict with herself after the accident but was able to overcome it. They are mostly emotional but also contains little bit of physical. She was down with emotional but also physical because she also got injured during the accidents and lost her line in her hand. They were resolved. Anna's depression was cured by her new love. The main conflict of between good and evil were subtle and complex because actually there were no good and evil. The good and evil were not exact, accurate, and couldn't be differentiated.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
Climax of the story was when the narrator, the child was in the house on fire and her mother, Anna was on the rescue. The ending of the story was happy. It was fairly achieved. Anna was able to save her daughter by her own and was able to live on happily with her husband and her child.
8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
The plot have unity, All the episodes relevant to the total meaning of the story. Each incident grew logically out of the preceding incident and led naturally to the next.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
They use chances and coincidences as a chance to proceed their situation to develop it to better way, and use it to change their lives and selves. These occurrences was used to initiate the story. It wasn't that improbable because this story could happen in the real life.
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