Forshadowing And Foreshadowing In Crash By Paul Haggis

Everybody wants to be perfect. People want to have control of their lives, yet life does not work that way. In the short story, “Pancakes,” Joan Bauer wrote about, Jill, the main character, controlling her work at a pancake house. One Sunday when Jill was working, a group of tourists arrived at the pancake house. Jill was the only waitress working so she had to balance her “perfect” work as customers come in. Jill tries to do her “perfect” way, but with customers in and out of the restaurant, the stress she has makes her fail at being perfect. The author’s overall argument in "Pancakes" is that it is impossible to be perfect through the use of foreshadowing, simile, and the first-person-point-of-view.

Foreshadowing is when the author drops hints to reveal some thing later on in the story. King writes "Did you put on any weight?". McCann put on a significant amount of weight. The consequens was the lose of the little finger. Stephen King used foreshadowing to make the piece at the end, when Morrison meets McCanns wife, relevent.

The books "Maus" and "Night" are similar for many reasons. One is that they both include foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a literary device where the author places hints and clues about what is to come. Both books have clues that reference a later event, so they both have foreshadowing.

People have been taught their whole life that their actions come with consequences. Throughout life, people are constantly faced with situations that require them to choose what path to go down. Choosing a path is also choosing an affect that comes with it. In the short story, “The Veldt”, the author, Ray Bradbury, put this life lesson into action. Bradbury shows that an initial choice of purchasing something that at the time that had great value, ended up ruining something that meant so much more. Throughout the story, we learn that the home that the family purchased “so they would not have to do anything” and the building of the nursery for the children, become so valued that the true meaning of family is lost. In this story, the author uses foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism, to convey the message that there are grave consequences of valuing material possessions over a family unit.

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.

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.

Most people are born with good hearts, but as they grow up they learn prejudices. “Crash” is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his wife, a racist cop and his younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian immigrant father, a Hispanic locksmith and his young

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.

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.

A sense of ominous foreboding permeates the woeful passage from "Three Dirges." The conflict is immediately apparent

A sense of ominous foreboding permeates the woeful passage from "Three Dirges." The conflict is immediately apparant: "Don Lazaro, you've got five boys in Comitan teaching the campesinos how to read. That's subversive. That's communist. So tonight, you have to kill them." Don Lazaro, the mayor of the war torn village, San Martin Comitan, seems to have no choice but to carry out this heartless command. His response is indicative of a desperate man searching for answers, yet already resigned to carrying out the task at hand. "What can I say? --you tell me!" cries an anguished Don Lazaro to the villagers. Is he pleading for their understanding, or asking for a miraculous

He is the younger brother of the detective Graham. He is partnered with his friend who feels that white people are most fearful of blacks. After the young men steal a car from an ego eccentric DA and his prejudice wife, Peter places a statue of St. Christopher who is a patron of travelers on the dashboard for protection. His friend makes fun of him for having it. However; Peter’s beliefs are that he will be safe at all times. Through the movie, Peter is seen with the St. Christopher statue. Peter has a belief in this spiritual Saint because he feels that he will be protected by this object. It is Peter’s belief that this Patron of Saints will protect him from harm. This is Peter’s wishful thinking of a higher being protecting him while he is traveling in a stolen car. His belief is nothing more than an illusion of his needs. Freud argues that we cannot prove or disprove religious beliefs. St. Christopher is a belief of Peters that come from an illusion of wishful thinking. “These, which profess to be dogmas, are not the residue of experience or the final result of reflection; they are illusions, fulfillments of the oldest, strongest and most insistent wishes of mankind; the secret of their strength of these wishes”

Gender roles. Crash shows how we all can reanalyze the difference between male traits like the ability to make decisions and aggression, and female traits not able making decisions and non-aggression, and the ability of understanding fast. In the movie, there is a guy who had a gun shop. In the scene there is a Persian American who owns a shop, he wanted to buy a hand gun to protect his family. He was to the shop with her daughter Dori. Dori’s understood her dad and she was not happy about it. Since the dad of Dori speaks little English, Dori bought a box that had nothing for the gun. She knew her dad would use it unnecessarily. She decided to but the box that says blanks for the new gun. After the shop of Dori’s dad destroyed, Dad’s Dori decided to go after the guy who fixed his locks. He took all of the blames to locksmith who is not even in the situation. He pointed to gun to locksmith asking for the money for reimbursement. Locksmith did not do anything, and he would not be able to pay what he did not do. The little girl who is locksmith’s daughter who is wearing an imaginary cloak that was given from her father, she run and throws herself in front of the gun. The guy who is Dori’s dad let the gun go off, but nothing

Paul Haggis's film Crash (2004) explores the social and racial tensions that are prevalent in contemporary Los Angeles. Crash is comprised of a series of vignettes in which people lead parallel lives that briefly intersect throughout the film and converge through various car crashes in Los Angeles. Crash features an all-star cast, which includes Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Ryan Philippe, Than die Newton, Terence Howard, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, and Larenz Tate. Through various vignettes and scenarios, Crash explores sociological issues of race and ethnicity, gender, and stereotyping.

In the movie Crash, the director Paul Haggis interweaves multiple connected stories about race, class, family, and gender in Los Angeles, California after the 9/11 event. All the characters are shown to have life changing experiences with their conflicts of stereotypes, prejudice, and racism within a span of 36 hours. This movie has won three Oscars and was deemed “expertly written” and “Best Picture Oscar-winner … sprawling and ambitious, episodic and contrived” by Cynthia Fuchs, a professional movie critic. So, how did this movie become so well-known and popular in the U.S., even though there are already so many movies with similar themes?