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Foreshadowing In The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain

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“Lord, Tom, they're coming! They’re coming, sure. What’ll we do?” This quote is said in the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Tom’s friend Huck. When Tom and his friend Huck are in the graveyard talking they see three figures and immediately become scared and hide. The turning point in the novel happens in chapters nine and ten with a foreshadowing change in the atmosphere, and superstition that creates tension in the characters and the reader.
In the beginning of chapter nine, Mark Twain uses foreshadowing to help us to predict what what was about to happen later in the chapter. Mark Twain uses many examples of foreshadowing in the beginning of chapter nine. There are three that stood out to me: A faint wind moaned through the trees.

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