Foreshadowing: An Amazing Story

In the book, The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, a character named Jody must cope with loss in order to improve his character throughout the story. The book, which is a classic, focuses on the struggles a ten year old boy encounters which eventually lead him to unleashing his full potential as the protagonist in the story. This astonishing novel contains descriptive foreshadowing, engaging conflicts, and distinct tones.

The element of foreshadowing is used prominently and consistently throughout the course of Ender’s Game to induce the suspense and intensity of the novel. The author achieves to capture the reader’s interest in the novel by providing brief insights into the imminent future’s possible doom or catastrophe in a unique fashion. This is done consistently, strengthening the reader’s desire to prolong reading rather proportionally, as at the beginning of each chapter in the novel, Orson Scott Card provides a brief insight, in the perspective of the Battle School directors, to convey a perception of how they react and plan for Ender’s actions. This is displayed in the text as the author writes, “He can never come to believe that anybody will ever help

In “Seventh Grade” there is a lot of foreshadowing. In the story there is a guy named Victor and he admired a girl named Teresa. “ Besides, Teresa, a girl he liked since they were in catechism classes at Saint Theresa’s was taking french to.’’ “ Teresa was going to be my girl this year, he promised himself as he left the gym full of students in their new fall clothes. She was cute. And really good in math, too, Victor thought as he walked down the hall to his homeroom.” ( Solo 122 ) Victor had it all figured out, he was going to get the girl and have a great seventh grade year. He is talking about the girl early in the story so the story must have to revolve around her. Humiliation is probably the worst thing that can happen

The short story, “The Interlopers” by Saki, tells of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, Two hunters who were destined to be enemies since `before they were born. Three generations ago, the Gradwitz family won a strip of precipitous woodland in a lawsuit against their neighbors, the Znaeym family. The Znaeym’s, in return, have held a grudge ever since. On a stormy winter night, Ulrich and his foresters are out on the land keeping watch for thieves, when Ulrich comes face to face with Georg. Before either man has time to move, a tree comes crashing down, both injuring and trapping them. At first both Ulrich and Georg claim that their men will be the first to find them and when they do, the other will die. But as more time passes, both find their hatred for each other decreasing and they decide to become friends. Sadly, after this miraculous event, both Ulrich and Georg are killed by wolves. Throughout the story, Saki uses irony, foreshadowing, and characterization to hold the reader’s interest.

In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” author Richard Connell expertly exploits foreshadowing and vivid imagery to emphasize danger and suspense. Many authors attempt to do this, but only a small few succeed. Everyone who has stayed up past their bedtime reading a book will tell you, they stayed awake because the book they were reading was filled with suspense. It is suspense that separates the great stories from the good stories. And “The Most Dangerous Game” is definately a great one. By using foreshadowing and utilizing his characters five senses, Connell keeps readers at the edge of their seats, eagerly waiting to find out what comes next.

In the fiction story Charles by Shirley Jackson a boy named Laurie who does bad things in his kindergarten class, he blames it on a made - up boy named Charles. His parents are concerned because they think “Charles” is a bad influence on Laurie. The closest people are not always what they seem to be.The craft moves the author uses is dialogue and foreshadowing. The author Shirley Jackson uses many different craft moves Dialogue and Foreshadowing, people are not always what they seem to be.

Towards the beginning of this chapter, O’Brien utilized foreshadowing while introducing the readers to the Green Berets (Greenies). O’Brien depicts this group as “animals...but far from social.” This tells the reader that the Greenies are very closed off and prefer to be alone. Later on in the chapter, O’Brien says that they would “vanish for days at a time” (88) and move “like shadows through the moonlight” (88). This information gets the reader thinking. Why are they loners? Why do they go MIA so often? The way they act could be from the effects the war had on them. It foreshadows that the Greenies are going to show up again in the chapter, but the readers are not told what their importance is in the story. Later, it is revealed that Mary Anne ended up joining the Greenies, losing her innocence, and becoming an animal.

In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves such as similes, dialogue, and foreshadowing to show different ways to describe the story throughout the book. In the story there is a nursery that is controlled by the children who live in the house. The nursery is in this very advanced house that does everything for them. The children's parents want to get rid of the house to live a normal life but their children don’t like that because they love the nursery. Eventually the children's rage of the parents taking the nursery away ends with them killing their parents. The craft moves show the arguments, descriptions and foreshadowing to show the reader how spoiled the children really are.

Literature is difficult for some and effortless for others, but there is a type of literature that is commonly used by many people and most use it without knowing. It is called allusion which is the reference to another person or item. John Steinbeck uses allusion to foreshadow what will happen in his book Of Mice and Men. In the book Of Mice and Men the two main characters are George, a smart and short man and Lennie, a strong but dumb man who both lived during the Great Depression. They are migrant workers that get in trouble a lot of times and run from town to town trying to find work, until they stumble upon a ranch that they can work on. During their stay and the ranch foreshadowing suggests what would happen next, but the book still had many twist that foreshadowing did not suggest. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in various ways to suggest that George and Lennie’s plan would go askew, that Curley’s wife would die, that George and Lennie would lose of the farm dream, and how Lennie would die.

Numerous examples of foreshadowing are present in Crow Lake. The main focus of foreshadowing, as a matter of fact is the Pye family. Through the complete book, it’s been revealed that the Pye family is a problematic family. From the beginning of the very first chapter, Kate mentions a catastrophe that had occurred for the Morrison’s, which involving another family. She states, “ The other thing we didn’t know was that the Pye nightmare was destined to become entangled with the Morrison dream.” (7)

Authors of all genres try to incorporate suspense and tension in their works to make the reader desperate for more information and answers. This is especially important for action-packed genres. Glancing at Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” the title itself brings a level of suspense and interest from the reader. How is Connell able to create the most important tributes of powerful books? Delving into more specifics, Connell utilizes foreshadowing and reader uncertainty in order to generate tension between the story and the helpless reader.

Foreshadowing is hidden throughout the novel, The City of Ember. It first appears when Lina finds instructions, and begins to decrypt them. Giving readers their first hint of what might happen, DuPrau writes, “She stared at the very first word at the top of the page, ‘Instru,’ and she suddenly knew what it must be. She’d seen it often enough at school. It had to be the beginning of ‘Instructions.’” (95) Lina’s essential discovery is one of many events that foreshadow Doon and Lina’s escape from Ember, since in the prelude we are told that instructions would be left to exit Ember. In addition, the box containing the instructions was passed down for generations, and yet Lina was the one to find it, committing her to a mission she then has the

Raymond Carver, author of “Popular Mechanics”, is a minimalist writer. Using the least amount of setting and character dynamics Carver makes the audience analyze the small details and actions that the people in the story do that would be seemingly nothing. The word ‘little’ at the beginning of the story is something that a lot of readers do not catch the first time reading this story, but it is a very important word that plays into the rest of the story. Carver uses small actions to grab the reader’s attention later in the story. Small actions, such as the woman picking up the baby’s picture and the knocked-down flower pot, take on larger significances, such as what the state of the relationship is, in “Popular Mechanics”.

The director M. Night Shyamalan used different methods to construct and format the theme of the film, “The Sixth Sense”. He uses foreshadowing, symbolism and motif to help the viewer understand the movie and see that it is more than what you first perceive. In “The Sixth Sense” a boy named Cole Sear has a sixth sense that is haunting him at the beginning of the movie. He sees things that other people can’t see. He can also hear things that other people can’t. He can see ghosts, among people as if living like nothing ever happened. A Doctor named Dr. Malcolm Crowe tries to help Cole with his “problem” until he realizes that Cole is very much like one of his other patients, Vincent Grey, who was a boy that had the exact same symptoms. Ultimately the director uses foreshadowing, symbolism and motif to construct the theme of communication within the film.

Both texts shared numerous figurative languages. The one that really caught my attention was the foreshadowing that was utilized. “The Story of an Hour” contained two foreshadowing that caught my attention. (“There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair.”) (P 653) (“The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves”) (P 653). The open window that was described in the text seemed to be the path to her freedom, while the closed door behind her was the captive past that Mrs. Mallard experience. The open window was on a story higher than the ground floor. It seemed to me the foreshadowing of her death could be seen here. If she embraced her freedom and take the path through the open window, she would be faced with major consequences, which would lead to death. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the foreshadowing was used to convey something weird was going to happen, which in this case was the discovering of the women in the wallpaper. (“I would say a haunted house.”) (P 655) (“And why have stood so long untenanted?”) (P 655). Irony was also utilized in both texts. (“of joy that kills”) (P 654). Joy does not usually result in death. The irony part is that they thought the joy was for finding out that her husband is alive which they were mistaken as mentioned above. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, irony was utilized mostly when dealing with her husband. (“John laughs at me, ofcourse, but one