What is the effect of the author’s use of foreshadowing in “secret in slovakia”? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one complete paragraph.

The use of foreshadowing in this text is used to retain the reader stimulated and to evade a possible disappointment. At the beginning, the narrator expresses his/her feelings when going back to Aunt Gertrude's house. It appears that the atmosphere is very nice because it is associated to a fairy tale but then, the mood changes and the reader gets the impression that something wrong is going to happen. The mentioning of the ´fairy tale´ could be associated with the good gesture Gertrude had with the orphans and the change of mood with the secret about to be discovered.

An inference that can be made is that the princess is bothered about the tiger door. although there are reasons for both this one has a better reason. the princess is not a monster and even if she didn't want to marry this man she wouldn't want him to die. the grudge of death is pretty heavy. unless she has done this before and feels no regret then she wouldn't want to be married to someone of low quality, if he is low quality.