Night Burial Literary Analysis

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Some readers don't like foreshadowing because they just want to find out in the very end what happens. But some readers like foreshadowing because they might be impatient, or they just want to know what the ending is going to be. The author of Night Burial is Ken Seibert. The author for The Monky's Par is W. w. Jacobs. Lastly, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. These authors used great foreshadowing their short stories. Foreshadowing is when the author gives hints to the reader about a future event that's going to take place later in the story. A story could make the reader think about what's going to happen and foreshadowing could help them. Moreover, Ken Sieber uses foreshadowing in his short story.

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