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.
Answer:
Playing cards are the different situations we go through in life.
Explanation:
Each situation in life has different ways to look at it. However, if you are able to look at one side of it, you certainly have the personal tools to look and understand the other side, for in the end it is the same situation. You can look at the other side of the same “card” and understand that most often it does not differ from your own side. From this mere observation, the character opens for us a possibility to think about empathy which can in turn takes us into the issue of communication and conflict –resolution.
