Question

Lines 100–102: What does the author intend to convey with the phrase “only the blank scar tissue of a quieter future” in lines 101–102? How does this relate to what the reader already knows about the mother? from the story "the leap" by louise erdrich

Answer 1

Explanation:

In the story, Anna is a blindfolded lady. The black scar is the scar of the hot wire. When the storm strikes thier house, the lady in order to save herslef, falls and catch with her hands the searing hot wire. So the scar is of this incident.

Now the author uses the quiter dark as a symbol to express some unfortunate incidents that happened to Anna such as her first marriage got broken and she married a second person then