All They Will Call You

How does the author use foreshadowing in the nonfiction book, All They Will Call You?

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The tone of All They Will Call You is both compassionate and mournful. It is also often suspenseful, as it clear that the author sees something fated and tragic in the Los Gatos plane crash. To achieve this tone, the author often makes use of foreshadowing. For example, the author concludes in the chapter on Luis Miranda Cuevas with the observation that “la migra was no longer relying solely on buses and trains. It was rumored that they had now found a faster, more efficient way of transporting Mexicans. They had begun taking the C-47 cargo airplane that had been the workhorse of World War II and outfitting it with seats” (37). Through this observation, the author alerts the reader to this new technology, suggesting that perhaps the government’s haste to deport Mexicans would somehow end tragically, perhaps in a plane crash.

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All They Will Call You, BookRags