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object that is going to return later in the story
It could be by putting something in the narration that
hints at something to happen in the future For it
could be by you know repeating a certain phrase so
that you get a sense that it's important Foreshadowing is
basically any time that you get a little glimpse into
the future and in this novel that happens in a
bunch of ways mostly in the very early scenes So
we know when melinda is on the bus that she
has done something wrong to the other kids we don't
yet know exactly what it is but we have a
sense that we're going to find out and then the
other kids are calling her a very specific names they're
taunting her there's a scene with a ho ho rapper
that indicates basically that the other kids think that she's
really promiscuous and so that we know and we know
somehow that like teenage sexuality is going to be involved
even though we don't exactly know what she did or
why So we're looking out for that And then when
she starts talking about it we know that there's a
person involved you either did something to her or she
did something to that person And so we have all
these little clues that there's going to be an event
there's going to be a significant other person and that
it probably involves sex which is pretty ominous Even though
we don't have this story yet What is foreshadowing And 00:02:02.8 --> [endTime] how is it used in the novel