Foreshadow

"What she said was:
'It's not just me, sweety. Kathy here finds your animals a complete hoot.'" PAGE 194

This quote was foreshadowed multiple times. The reader knew that eventually Ruth was going to say something about Tommy's drawings. It was a matter of what and when she was going to say it. The first hint was the Kathy "wasn't prepared at all for what happened at the churchyard several days later (page 192)." Then the narrator went into the background of the event before actually mentioning what Ruth said. "But that was when Ruth said what she did (page 194)." This told the reader that Kathy was about to say what happened. The foreshadowing of that confrontation in the churchyard kept the reader wondering what actually would happen. It alse kept the reader involved in the issue. I knew to keep it in the back of my mind as I read because I assumed there was a reason the narrator kept bringing it up. Without the foreshadowing, the discussion between the three would not have carried so much weight.