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Shirley Jackson Foreshadowing

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Jackson creates the theme of dishonesty and how it impacts everyone else involved in a problem with the use of foreshadowing and first person perspective. This sentence, “I watched him go off the first morning… seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended,” shows that Laurie’s mom was so close to her son and that bond might just break when he goes to school (73). Laurie’s mom loves him so dearly that she will always try to help him no matter what and always wants to know what is going on with him. Shirley Jackson’s first person perspective is one of the many crafts he uses to show the dishonesty. Another example of author’s craft that he uses to develop the theme is foreshadowing. Jackson uses foreshadow to show Laurie is about to do something
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