Foreshadowing In Mrs Shachter's Behavior

The author uses different methods to portray suspense, “the uncertainty or anxiety that an author makes the reader feel so that the reader wonders about what will happen next in the story, novel, or other work of literature”. The story,”The Landlady,” written by Roald Dahl, portrays suspense by making the protagonist, Billy Weaver, encounter many strange and suspicious events with the landlady when he stays at her bed and breakfast. Dahl effectively builds suspense throughout the selection by applying numerous writing techniques such as foreshadowing and imagery.

Why do people take lives of others? Of Mice and Men is a short novel that tells a powerful story. It is a tale of two unlikely friends -- small, intelligent George and enormous but childlike Lennie -- traveling through California during the 1930’s. George and Lennie are migrant workers. They take temporary jobs at different ranches in the effort to make enough money to buy their own farm. At their new jobs, they meet a new co-worker named Candy who wants to be a part of their farm. George and Lennie also meet the ranch owner's son Curley who is very mean to Lennie and end up hurting him. Also lastly there is Curley’s wife who is very lonely but Lennie ends up killing her. (background essay) The short story also has to foreshadow. Foreshadowing

(Wiesel 25). When they finally enter the camp and she sees the real smoke coming from the crematorium, this connection becomes obvious. Furthermore, the treatment of Mrs. Schächter also foreshadows the treatment of the people in the camp.

Most people in the world have had a hard time admitting that someone has died that they care about. In the world this happens a lot because it is a hard thing to excepted. Lucille Fletcher, the author of “The Hitchhiker” shows the fear of death through the eyes of the main character that can not escape that he is dead. He is being followed by a Hitchhiker that is representing death because the main character is dead which goes back to not admitting that someone is dead. In the story “The Hitchhiker,” Lucille Fletcher uses flashback, foreshadowing,and symbolism to build a mood.

The fire refers to how many Jew’s fate was to be burned to death. One person describes Ms. Schächter as, “a withered tree in a field.” Withered tree make the reader think of sickly and malnourished, just like the Jews were during the Holocaust. Wiesel also writes, “We tried to reason with her, more to calm ourselves.” The Jews on the train had only been in

She had also lost faith and from what Wiesel had said, “ she was quiet woman, who worked to support her family.”(Wiesel 22). Since Madame Schachter had been separated from most of her family, except one of her sons, she was slowly driven to insanity. Many of the Jews had thought that she was insane because she would scream that she could see a fire and that it was a terrible one. When everyone was told to get off of the train that brought them to Birkenau, Madame Schachter had stayed on the train with her son and were most likely killed. It was later thought that Madame Schachter was not losing her mind, but having visions of the crematories where many Jews would soon

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.

In Night by Elie Wiesel there were many quotes that stuck out to me, or had meaning that aligned with my personal experiences. The first quote I chose came from when Elie and his family and friends were in the cattle care and Mrs. Schachter started yelling about a fire, no one could see the fire and just assumed that she was going mad. “Standing in the middle of the wagon, in the pale light from the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a cornfield. She pointed her arm towards the window, screaming: “Look! Look at it!

In Abduction by Peg Kehret, Matt is a 5-year old boy who suddenly gets kidnapped by his father that he didn’t even know was alive. When Bonnie realizes that her brother, Matt, is missing she also realizes that her dog Pookie is also gone. As Bonnie, her mom, and the detective try to piece things together and find out who took Matt, Bonnie coincidentally sees him at a ball game. She decides to follow them to get her brother back once and for all. The author uses foreshadowing, reader knows more than the character and a dream to help build suspense, get the reader predicting and to help give background information to the reader.

Madame Schachter’s deranged warning was important because she pictured torture would soon happen. “ ‘Fire! I see fire! I see fire!’ ” (Wiesel 24). Her screaming and moaning of the fire the passengers on the train. A group of young men began to beat and gag Mrs. Schachter because her moans were distracting. After long hours in the train, the Jews and Madame Schachter arrived at a camp. “Flames rising from a tall chimney into the black sky” (Wiesel 28). Once the Jews walk in, their amazed and shocked by Mrs. Schachter's premonition. They soon realize the “fire” she was screaming about was right in front of their eyes. “In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smelling of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight, We had arrived, In

Elie Wiesel employs symbolism through fire; this is mentioned all throughout after Wiesel 's first night at the camp. "Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever." (Wiesel 34). These visual memories were only the beginning of what the Nazi 's had in store for the Jews. The journey on the train to Auschwitz was the epitome of fire when Mrs. Schachter cried out for a fire several times; meanwhile the Jews could not understand why she kept screaming fire. In

I see a fire! I see a fire!” (Wiesel 24). Everyone in the cart began to panic and look out to window; however, there was nothing but the darkness of the night sky. Madame Schachters episodes kept going on throughout the night until others had to beat her in order for her to be quiet. The train arrived at Auschwitz, and as Madame Schachter began to scream again, “the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky” (28). Whether Madame Schachter was actually seeing the flames or they were just visions in her mind, she was a warning to the others to be afraid of the fire. In the novel, The Hiding Place, Corrie’s only brother Willem writes a doctoral thesis of a terrible evil that is taking place in Germany. He wrote this paper at the university he was attending. Willem spoke of a hatred for human life that the world has never seen before, “He said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had never seen” (ten Boom 29). There is no explanation as to why these warnings were ignored. Survivors today beat themselves up psychologically asking, why? Why did I not listen? Why were we all so oblivious to all of the rumors?

Schäcter sees something the rest don’t. She claims she sees flames of a great fire outside of the train car they’re being transported in, yet no one else sees the flames including her son. As the train car comes to a halt, she screams “Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!” (Weisel 28), and for the first time, the men, women, and children inside the box car saw what she saw. The 100 plus people in the car being ushered out by men in strange uniforms with flashlights, (again alluding to the presence of night), not only saw the flames, but could smell what they were incinerating before exiting the box car. Eliezer saw smoke rising from a tall chimney into a black sky, the smoke of burning flesh for those who didn’t make the work cut in the camp. Although this paints a gory picture in the reader’s mind, it paints a truthful one, representing the evil and violence the night

Similarly, Elie deliberately uses several instances of foreshadowing as a warning that further develops the dehumanization theme. As the cattle car was approaching Auschwitz concentration camp, Madame Schächter screams, “’Jews listen to me,’ she cried. ‘I see fire! I see flames, huge flames’” (25 Wiesel)! Madame foreshadows the annihilation of millions of Jews being burned alive and dead within the crematoriums located at Auschwitz. Also, her hallucinations predicted the horrific fate of all the Jewish people, who would suffer

Have you ever read Of Mice and Men? Were you aware of the heavy foreshadowing in it? By the time you finish reading this, you will. Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers, named George and Lennie. In three days, multiple major events occur. They make plans to get their own ranch with the old man, named Candy. Unfortunately, their plans go askew when Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife. The whole book, including the title, foreshadows the big ending of the book. It’s quite intricate how Steinbeck works this foreshadowing throughout the book. You might have missed some of this information on your first read because some of it even relates to events outside of the book.