First of all, if the story would be in chronological order, there would be no story at all. This is because the main character of the story, Anna, won't tell the narrator, her daughter, a lot about her past. "She has kept no squinted costume, no photographs, no fliers or posters from that part of her youth".
Because the narrator tells the story in the present and uses flashbacks is the reason that she can unify certain themes, such as the three times her mother saved her life because of her leaps. "I owe her my existence three times". These three leaps the narrator owes her life might be: when Anna Saves herself when she falls from the trapeze, when she falls in love with the narrator's father, and when she saves the narrator life from a fire by climbing to the room where the narrator is trapped.
The answer is C Specific feedback that focuses on the positive aspects of the essay
There is no excerpt given but the central idea here is that there is a great injustice being done to African Americans
Part of the idea behind Romanticism was to explore the inner nature of man. Here, the whole story focuses on the inner nature of Tom Walker. We see his struggle with his own greed and ambition, and we see the negative consequences when he loses that struggle. We also see his reaction to fear, how he turns to a religion he doesn't even believe in so that he might save himself before death.
As Tom...
