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Explain how the author uses foreshadowing to create suspense in Skeleton Man. Support your answer with an example of foreshadowing (from the novel.)
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The author is skeleton man a use foreshadowing to make suspense by showing what is going to happen. “Then, after that moment of hearing stopping silence, there is the familiar sound. Snick. As he locks my door from the outside.” This is showing that the author ends chapters with you wondering what might happen. He leaves readers with a sense of wonder; giving them something to think about when they are done reading. For example, after I read that, I was wondering “Well why does he lock her up at night? Is he afraid she is going to run away?” The suspenseful foreshadowing leaves me thinking. Another example is her dreams. All of the dreams she has is giving us hints about what is going to happen or what might happen later in the book. It is as if her dreams and clues. They are foreshadowing what might happen.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 7 she has another dream and she appears in a Mohawk India tribe wear and the rabbit tells her that she is in big trouble. She is also told that her parents were buried but not dead which gives her a chance to still find them. When her dream ends she says that she is now in a forest and knows she couldn’t of sleepwalked out of the house and that the door must have been unlocked some how. She see’s two figures and realizes she is back in her dream the figures were her and the rabbit, the girl has a scar under her cheek then she blinks but everything changes and now she is in the Mohawk dress next to the rabbit and she tells herself “This isn’t me” but the rabbit tells her its her story now. This tells you that the author uses foreshadowing to tell her and you that the is more trouble ahead for her and that she may find her parents.
ReplyDeleteThe author uses foreshadowing by leaving hints or clues as to what is happening or going to happen. The author used this by saying in the beginning “I’m not sure how to start the story, for one thing its still going on.” That is an example because now you know there is a problem that occurred or is still occurring. The author also said that her parents vanished and that “You may have seen me on unsolved mysteries. About the girl who was left in her house alone surviving on nothing but cornflakes and canned foods.” This is also an example because you now know that she was left home alone and her parents vanished.
ReplyDeleteSome things the author says in the novel that will happen later in the story is. For example in the novel the girl told her friend that her uncle looks her in her room at night time, so I think her friend will do something about it or tell someone about it.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel “SKELETON MAN”, the author foreshadows in chapter one. An example is when he wrote “You probably saw me on Unsolved Mysteries”, this quote shows a step taking back for some clues or just to make sure you remember. She was left alone for three days and her story was on that show. So the author went a step back meaning foreshadowing.
ReplyDeleteThe author tries uses foreshadowing to create the suspense by adding the scary dreams. It makes me wonder whats going to happen next and if he is the skeleton man. The suspense also comes in when she see's him standing by the shed everynight. This makes me want to keep reading to see why he is next to the shed at night.
ReplyDeleteThe author used Foreshadowing by saying " I dont know how to began this story ? " I say this because of her dreams because u it gives her fact and it helps her find out what her uncle really is ?
ReplyDeleteThe way I think the author used foreshadowing in this story is he used the clues as one thing when the girl has the dreams it gives the reader a hint to as what’s going on in the story. Another way I think he used foreshadowing is he let us know what’s going on and how the girl is feeling. Also in the beginning of the story how her father used to talk about the story of the “skeleton man” it’s like it’s almost playing off and it makes me want to know what’s going to happen next in the story.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of the story she tells clues of what might come later in the book. Like the skeleton man story she told the readers and then when the uncle comes into the book she starts remembering the story. Then she tells the feeling she has when every time he comes in the same room. Don’t forget how she says her parents just vanished. Then a uncle she never knew she had came to take care of her.
ReplyDeleteShe is telling the reader things about how he acts but nothing ever happens. And the more he doesn't do anything the closer it gets to him doing something I just don't know when.
ReplyDeleteThe way the author use foreshadowing to create suspense is that he use phrase to foreshadow. For example “I don’t how to being this story.” And another way is that he lives clues in the dreams that she has to create that suspenseful feeling in the story. Another example is “I was on TV when they disappeared.” They the author creates the suspense is that you don’t now why her parents disappeared and how they did.
ReplyDeleteThe author shows foreshadowing by giving them clues of what’s going to happen next. Like on page 6, “.My mom and dad told me stories like that all the time. Before they vanished. Disappeared. Gone, just like that. I was on TV when they disappeared. You probably saw me on unsolved mysteries.” That gives the readers a hint on what’s going to happen next.
ReplyDeleteThe author uses forshowing in all of the chapters because it is a mystery. For example in chapter 3 in the begining "I DONT SCREAM". I think that is a forshowing becausing it is a clue tht something is going to happen.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Skeleton Man, the author uses foreshadowing in chapter 1 the beginning of the book. She let’s us know, before the story actually starts that it’s about an unsolved mystery. “You probably saw me on unsolved mysteries.” Later in the book, the uncle was brought in and the locking of the doors for no reason. It was kind of unsolved and no reason for it.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel the “SKELETON MAN” the author fore shadows in chapter one. It talks about the skeleton/human in her dreams. In chapter 8 she has another dream talking about the rabbit. In chapter 7 she goes her counselor and talks about how her uncle traps her at night and doesn’t let her get out till she has school.
ReplyDeleteOn page six , there she had
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disapeared You probably saw me
on tv" . Which is an example
of foreshadowing . Foreshadow
is like something that happened .
Since the girl said " saw me ,
and you probably " . Which makes
that sentence true , that happened
in the story .
i think that the author uses foreshadow by saying in the story "i was on tv , when they dissapeared " . Also thats foreshadowing in the story . Also how she also says "you may have saw me on unsolved mysteries, girl home alone left with canned food and cornflakes " . Those are the ways how the story "skeleton man" have foreshadowing .
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