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Foreshadowing In Mrs Shachter's Behavior

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In the story Mrs. Schachter's behavior foreshadows that she really seemed like a hallucinating lunatic. As the story goes on she was actually a prophet. She could see things that no one else could see or believe awhile ahead of time. She was yelling about a fire that no one else could see when she saw it. On the train once they arrived at the final stop she had yelled about seeing fire again, but only this time everyone else could see it too. “Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!” “And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky(28)”

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