Leverage, a book by author Joshua Cohen, earned a score of 7 out of 10 because Cohen effectively used foreshadowing. Kurt Brodsky, one of the two main characters in the novel, recently moved into Oregrove from his old school Lincoln after being transferred to a different foster guardian. On his first day at Oregrove Kurt thinks to himself, “My cheeks grow hot and the scars start to itch, uglifying me even more” (Cohen 9). When the author uses the phrase, “uglifying me even more”, it shows how Kurt feels about his scars. Kurt feels as though his scars are what makes him an outlier in the school, and he also thinks that people will make fun of him because of the scars on his face. The reader can conclude that this will be a major conflict in Kurt’s life as he struggles getting …show more content…
When Kurt is talking with Terrance, the Oregrove Knights” star running back, Terrance tells him all about how coach gives supplements to most of the team. Kurt then leaves Terrance after practice and says to himself, “I’m wondering how much bigger I could get” (Cohen 107). When Kurt mumbles “I wonder” to himself, it is implying that he is willing to try it. A part of Kurt’s character is that he was abused by his old foster guardian, and he will do anything so nothing like that happens to him. When he says that he is willing to try steroids, even though it may get him in a lot of trouble you can understand that he has bigger things on his mind and something may not go well. Later in the novel, his coach gets busted for giving kids supplements and Kurt then realizes how much they can affect him, and he flushes the D-bol down the toilet. The foreshadowing tells us that the steroids will eventually have a bad effect on their lives. Even though Cohen used foreshadowing very well, the score was brought down because there are narrators that often cross