Examples Of Foreshadowing In Looking For Alaska

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The project I chose to do is a collage. The purpose of choosing the collage is because it is a great way to show emotion that an essay can’t really show. In addition, to choosing the collage is because I want to show that death (theme) is a very serious thing and I want to impact people’s lives that death isn’t something to be joking about.The whole novel of “Looking For Alaska” is set around the death of Alaska. Part one is called “before”, as in before the death of Alaska. The second part is called “after”, as in after the death of Alaska. There were several examples of foreshadowing to death, most were from Alaska herself. Alaska stated “ya’ll smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.” Alaska is showing to the readers that she really doesn’t care

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