Tragedy is a horrible and beautiful thing, but in the case of “The Leap” it is something that can be endured without fail no matter what the odds are. In the short story “The Leap” there is a flashback where the mother of the narrator is taken back to her days in the circus when her husband sadly past away. The mother had been shocked, burned, stranded in a high up area, and had her arm broken by someone trying to save her from the tangling she was caught in. Even after all of that the mother …show more content…
The story “Deep Survival” starts off with a story about a little girl who survived a plane crash into the jungle with many others. The difference between her and the others is that she knew they wouldn’t be rescued, so she set out to find help herself and, as a young girl who just lost her mother, she endured. Then, later in the story one of the instructors talks about how they survived almost freezing to death with his team because of a miscalculation made by him, however, they endured and pulled through that endeavor. This shows that people just have to pull through tough times in order to endure things in horrid