Pet Sematary

How does the author use foreshadowing in Pet Sematary?

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Pet Sematary is divided into three parts and further subdivided into sixty-two chapters plus a chilling Epilogue. Part 1, The Pet Sematary, takes up two hundred pages and makes up the bulk of the novel. In this longer part, Stephen King takes his time laying out the plot and gradually building the normal world that his characters inhabit. He makes great use of foreshadowing techniques and even tells the entire story of the cat's death and resurrection in this part. However, the Creed family remains intact throughout this long beginning. Rather than killing off any characters in this horror novel right away, King spends a great deal of time getting the reader to care about each and every one of the Creeds through his clever command of character detail.

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