As the book progresses, I find more events are being foreshadowed. Starting with the school massacre, an alarming hint that a student was possible of such a horrendous shooting could have come from Mitchell’s science project. One of the three shooters, Mitchell Van Water showed early signs of a twisted mind in his school science fair labeled “Getting the most bang for your buck.” (Coupland 24) The three shooters had other warning signs but of course their social awkwardness and bang for your buck quirkiness wasn’t obvious until it was too late. The way the story is written from each prospective is the present reflecting on past events. By retelling past events, the reader catches on that these are all leading up to some big event. Cheryl talking in the past tense about the events leading up to something, you begin to realize that some sort of tragedy to end her happiness is about to happen. So far, the foreshadowing in Jason’s part seems to be that all his past events involving drug abuse and the death of Kent are leading up to something tragic happening to Jason. The fact that Jason is writing these diaries to his nephews makes you wonder why he would even tell most of his life story to anyone, especially his nephews. I have a sense that Jason will die some time before the end of his part in the book, but all his truths will be revealed in the letters to his nephews that will bring some peace and closure to the family. All of Jason’s drug blackouts could be foreshadowing towards his death, considering I don’t think he would commit suicide if he has already lived so long with suffering.
I imagine that Jason’s collection of letters to his nephews would start to pile up like this picture. I predict that his letters will have a huge significance later in the book, maybe when Jason or another family member dies, and the truth of his life can be revealed and have closure.
Picture from: http://tinyurl.com/6bogcta
No comments:
Post a Comment