Foreshadowing In the book Carrie, Stephen King uses foreshadowing to build suspense. The small, and seemingly unimportant, events in the beginning give a morbid glimpse of what is to come in the novel. One instance of this is when the girls tease Carrie and she starts having an emotional meltdown: “The girls stopped, realising that fission and explosion had finally been reached. It was at this point, when looking back, that some of them would claim surprise.” (pg. 9) This is foreshadowing because we haven’t been given the information of what the girls are looking back from. All that is shown here is that something major is going to happen involving Carrie and the girls. A second time that foreshadowing is used is when Billy and his gang go to Henty’s farm. On their trip to the farm, the boys kill two pigs and use pails to hold the blood. After the deed was done, the boys are driving away and Billy is thinking, “Pig blood for a pig.” (pg. 137) This is foreshadowing that something is going to be done to people Billy views as “pigs” involving the pig blood. At this point, we still don’t know what will happen, but there is an eerie tone to the words. Supporting Character - Sue Carrie, written by Stephen King, had a few supporting characters that helped the story go along. One of these characters is Susan Snell. She was one of Carrie’s classmates in the book. In her attempt to make amends for her horrible behaviour, she asks her boyfriend Tommy to ask Carrie to their prom instead of her (pp. 95-98). This helps the story go along because it gives Carrie a reason to go to the prom. Throughout this book, Stephen King put in snippets of fictional medical journals and other books which make observations and evaluations of the events that occurred at Carrie’s prom and her life before that night. One of these fictional works is Sue’s autobiography, My Name Is Susan Snell. This fictional work expresses Sue’s opinions, feelings, and experiences from the night of prom and the events leading up to it. At one point, she says, “I am sorry for Carrie.” This quote is showing that Sue wasn’t like the other girls in her class. She matured enough to realise that her actions against Carrie were immature and weren’t the wisest decisions.