Foreshadowing Techniques In 'A Modern Love Letter'

“A Modern Love Letter” creates surprise by the buildup of the foreshadowing of hints through the story. The structuring on the other hand was chronological order, with a flashback thrown in, to give us a hint possibly. To start off, first off, the first hint was when Isabella “Bella” found the first love letter, in which was written with an old stationery in which “, revealing a single sheet of thick, old-fashioned stationery—the kind I’ve seen only in my abuela’s antique desk,” this statement gives a clue of who possibly wrote this, though I don’t believe Abuela did. However, as Bella was getting theses love letters, however she was confused because as it states in paragraph 3 “I have no clue what the letter means or who might have written …show more content…
Most of us probably brushed off Alejandro, but it seems suspicious. Then the final act of surprise comes at the very end when the last “love letter” comes, and Isabella is told to meet this admirer at 4:00PM, and when Isabella’s mom pushes her to but “on the condition that Abuela accompany me,” another big clue that makes it seem the story is about to turn. The surprise was when Isabella saw an older gentleman walking toward her and her Abuela with flowers. It was Alejandro after all, Isabella was disappointed but it also a shock because Abuela forgot that Alejandro called her, “I had forgotten he called me Bella—beautiful” Isabella wasn’t too disappointed, just in her detective skills. However, all is good, because the phone vibrates, and it’s an unfamiliar number; it was Mateo asking her out to go to the library. The surprise was shown through all the hints, which came to the conclusion Alejandro found Abuela after all those years which seemed evident back in paragraph 5 in Abuela’s