Speak Part 7: Foreshadowing

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