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Foreshadowing And Imagery In 'We' Ll Always Have Summer

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In the book We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han the central idea is to always follow your heart. Han used the writing strategies foreshadowing and imagery to convey the central idea. Foreshadowing was used by the author to hint at events that come later in the story. Han used imagery to allow the reader to visualize and understand the story in a deeper sense. Han used foreshadowing in the story to give the readers hints of how the main character, Belly, will follow her heart in the end and choose the guy she truly wants to be with. In the story, Belly and Jeremiah are supposed to marry each other. At the beginning of the story Belly has a moment with Conrad, Jeremiah’s brother who Belly used to be in love with her entire life, where she thinks that she might still have feelings for him: “Looking up at him, I had this sudden thought. Oh my god. I still love you. I’d thought my feelings for Conrad were safely tucked away, like my Rollerblades and the little gold watch my dad bought me when I first learned how to tell time”(44). Belly thought that she didn’t still have feelings for Conrad and she had her mind set on marrying Jeremiah. Moments like these made Belly question if she could marry Jeremiah if she still had feelings for Conrad. …show more content…

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