Adams Post 1

I think that the author in The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera tracks the hurricane through the ocean for anticipation. It was a thrilling part that kept you on the edge of your seat for many chapters. All you could think about was what is going to happen, are they going to be okay, and when is the hurricane going to overtake Juan and Raul. The author does many times throughout the book to add detail about what is going on. For example the author puts the part in the story, on page 29, when they get bumped one night by a shark. This foreshadows that a shark effects them later in the book. Another instance when this is done is when all the terns fly over in wave after wave after wave, on page 35, it is telling that they are flying away from something hinting about the hurricane. The tracking of the hurricane and all the other times when the author foreshadowed were trying to hook someone into the story so they would read the book. I think J. Joaquin Fraxedas did a great job in writing this book so far.