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Theme Of Foreshadowing In Thirteen Reasons Why

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The novel thirteen reasons why written by Jay Asher explains thirteen incidents that happened causing Hannah to end her life. Jay Asher has used techniques such as the “symbol snowball effect” which is where one insignificant problem grows as more small things happen, turn it into a huge problem other techniques that this essay will be focusing on is foreshadowing, multiple antagonists, themes and how they relate to the “snowball effect”.
Foreshadowing is the use of symbolic words or phrases to hint that an event is yet to happen. Foreshadowing is used to get the reader’s attention and create suspense about events that are yet to occur. Jay Asher used this technique to hint to the readers the revelations and exposed secrets that are yet to unravel. All these stories were connected to Hannah Baker’s story. The frequent use of foreshadowing in her tapes hinted what was going to happen next, without ever giving away any important details. Let me tell you there is a much bigger, more important part later in the tapes. Foreshadowing keeps the reader intrigued and clues of what is going to happen next.
In the novel thirteen reasons why there were multiple antagonists, the two main antagonists were Justin Foley and Ryan Shaver. Justin was on the first and tenth on the cassette is explaining how he played a part of her death. Justin was Hannah’s first kiss which she cherished. Justin betrayed her trust by spreading false information about Hannah around the school. This is what caused the snowball of lies and betrayal that made Hannah’s life crumble and fall apart. Later, Justin along …show more content…

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