Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The face on the Milk Carton (ROAR POST #2)

As i have read further into the book, I began to notice some literary terms that the author uses to lead up to the complication of the story, in which Janie finally finds her (supposedly) face on the back of a milk carton during lunchtime. The biggest way the author lets us know what is going to happen was foreshadowing, in which the author gives us clues that somehow give the reader an insight of what might happen next.In this case the author has the characters (IE Janie, and her friends) look at a bunch of milk cartons before the actual carton (in which Janie's face is upon) is discovered.
 The fact that there is foreshadowing in the books leads me to believe that there is going to be a moment near the end of the book where Janie is kidnapped due to the fact that she has her own face on the milk carton. The fact that her face is on a kidnapped section is not intriguing to her friends, who suggest that the girl does not even look like Janie. Maybe the fact that Janie hates her name, and wants it changed to Jayyne Johnstone ties in with the doomed fate, and how Janie would vanish, like the way she wants her name to vanish.
 Another thing i have noticed is that the narration might be from Janie in the future due to the switch in POV in the last sentence of my last reading. This might counter my previous prediction of Janie being kidnapped since she is telling us the story from the future.

Quote: "Janie held Sarah-Charlotte's empty milk carton and stared at the photograph of the little girl.
I was kidnapped." (Cooney) 

There is a change in the narration POV as the narrator refers to Janie as herself "I" instead of referring to her as "Janie" in third person. 

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