In The Short Stories “The Leap” By Louise Erdrich, And “The Mother Who Never Was

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Term Paper Title	In The Short Stories “The Leap” By Louise Erdrich, And “The Mother Who Never Was
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In the short stories “The Leap” by Louise Erdrich, and “The Mother Who Never Was” by Lisa K. Buchanan, both of the main characters undergo a dynamic change.  In one story the mother’s change is that she is regretting giving away her daughter.   In the second story the change would be how the mother would save her daughter.
In the story “The Mother Who Never Was” by Buchanan, Anna, the mother, gave her daughter, Kathleen, up for adoption.  Anna was about eighteen years of age.  In this story the reader could often see in their mind, the pain that Anna is going through. We know that Anna is in pain because she says, “I should be proud to have provided a childless couple with the gift of a daughter.  But I find little in these noble sentiments.  There is no resolve to having relinquished my only child.  I think I will mourn her forever.”  Another reason why the reader feels that Anna is going through pain is because she tells us that she would never be able to have another a child.  Anna loves to do gardening work in the spring.  The reader feels that maybe she loves gardening so much that it will take her mind off putting her daughter up for adoption.  The reader thinks that nothing will ever take her mind off putting her daughter up for adoption because, Anna will never be able to conceive a child again.  The change that the reader feels that is going through Anna’s mind is that if she knew that she would not be able to give birth to another child that maybe she would not have put her daughter up for adoption.  The dynamics of this story is that if she would have known that she could not conceive another child she might not have put her daughter up for adoption.
In “The Leap”, by Louise Erdrich, the main characters is the narrator and her mother.  The narrator in this story is the daughter and she is re...

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