In the very beginning of Anna Karenina, when the reader first meets Anna, she is in a train station and she sees a man fall onto the railroad tracks in front of a train. This hints at the way Anna's life comes to a tragic end in the end of the story. Leo Tolstoy used foreshadowing in Anna Karenina to show how Anna would die.
Write about a time you encountered foreshadowing in a book or a story.
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I'm sure many of you remember the children's story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." At the beginning of the story, the young shepherd ran around yelling, "WOLF WOLF WOLF!" Everybody in the village ran up to help him and his sheep. Only to their surprise did they see the boy laughing, finding out he was only joking. The next day the boy ran around again saying, "WOLF WOLF WOLF!" And again, everyone ran up the hillside to his aid. Laughing at the crowd, the boy couldn't believe they fell for it again. The third day, the boy really did see a wolf. He jumped up and started yelling, "WOLF WOLF WOLF!" But this time the villagers continued their work, believing the young shepherd was only kidding. That evening the boy did not come home. So the villagers went to look for him. They saw him crying. He said, "Why didn't anyone come help me?" An old man walked over and comforted the shepherd. The man said, "Don't worry it'll be ok. You've learned your lesson. No one believes liars."
ReplyDeleteAnd so the story foreshadowed when the boy would some day need help from the villagers.
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ReplyDeleteIt is very difficult to pull out of thin air a time when I encountered forshadowing, but I guess the Bible would be my best example. Throughout the entire old testement, especially in Psalms and the last three books of the old testement (Haggai, Malachi, Zechariah) forshaddowings are made to Jesus. For example, Malachi 3:1 states "Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me [Jesus before the anticipated second coming of God], and the lord whom you seek will suddenly come to this temple [referencing a temple in Jerusalem where Jesus certainly did walk] the messanger of the covenant in whome you delight [the covenent is an agreement between God and Israel in which Jesus came to fulfill]. That's some obvious and major classic forshadowing to the Gospels.
Nathan- You spelled Mrs. Myers wrong!?! My foreshadowing story is Romeo and Juliet. Well, it really could be any Shakespeare writing. In Romeo and Juliet, they get together and believe that the feuding between their families will go away. It actually brings more trouble than what both of them thought. They both end up dying at the end in the problem of making their familites unite as a whole.
ReplyDeleteI have more. They both bring events about that would not have occurred if Romeo and Juliet just stayed away from each other. With the friar and his potion to fake Juliet's death makes Romeo die as well.
ReplyDeleteIf you can remember To Kill a Mockingbird, foreshadowing was pretty much everywhere in that book. A scene that I recall is when Jem and Scout find presents hidden in a large oak tree. That foreshadows when Boo Radley shows himself and also foreshadows his kindness that Jem and Scout find in him when they meet. Another foreshadow in To Kill a Mockingbird is how Mr. Ewell's anger in the courtroom told the reader that his rampage was not over. Later he attacked his children and I can't remember what happen to Bob, but the foreshadow is still there.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth had foreshadowing. Like when the three children came to him one carrying a tree, another a head and the other telling macbeth he couldn't die from anyone born of a woman. That was pretty much foreshadowing because the head ended up being his after the forest was cut down and used for camoflouge and then he was killed by someone born from a c-section. So yea that foreshadowing :)
ReplyDeleteI think that the book Twlight uses foreshadowing a little bit. Bella in the book notices that the Cullens are very pale and have oddly colored eyes and they change colors. This kind of gives the reader a hint that they aren't human and makes you lead to think that they are vampires, and also Edward and Bella start to have a relationship and towards the beginning of that he tells her that being around vampries probably is not the safest thing, and that ends of being truthful.
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter uses foreshadowing. In each of the books, Harry and the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort, get in duels. They always encounter each other and fight, and Harry wins. This is foreshadowing because in the very last book Harry and Voldemort get in a huge battle, which determines whether or not the Wizarding world is doomed!
ReplyDeleteI love Harry Potter... :D
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ReplyDeleteHarry Potter uses foreshadowing. In each of the books, Harry and the evil wizard lord Voldemort end up running into eachother and getting into duels. Harry always wins, btw. This is foreshadowing because in the last book Harry has to fight a final battle with Voldemort to determine the fate of the wizarding world!
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ReplyDeleteI think that a lot of the books and stories that we read have foreshadowing, but a lot of the time, we don't pick up on it. However, sometimes it is very obvious like in The Pelican Brief, the book that I am reading right now for Mr. Meade. It has a lot of foreshadowing in it throughout the entire book (well, at least in the part that I've finished reading!) From the very beginning, it talks about how much violence there has been lately and how no one likes a certain Supreme Court judge. Also, it builds up by talking about how the judge won't let any FBI agents near his house to protect him. Then, he is killed. Also, there is a chapter where the President is talking about how much he dislikes a different Supreme Court judge because he is homosexual. A few pages later, that judge winds up dead.
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter uses foreshadowing I believe. In the first book they introduce Voldemort and there is a constant quest throughout the sereis to fight him. Of course in the last book Harry Fights him fairly and wins!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!
ReplyDeleteI am not sure of what the story is called, but it is the one about the three greedy men who end up killing themselves in the end. All of the men were completely destined to die because of their greed, so after their consciences took over their bodies they just killed each other and made themselves look even more pathetic than they already were.
ReplyDeleteI just read A Clockwork Orange and there is foreshawdowing in it referring to the main character getting thrown in jail. In the beginning of the book The main character is talking with his friens about how horrible the state prison is. No later than two thirds into the book the boy gets thrown into the state prison.
ReplyDeleteI've read a lot of books with foreshadowing in it, but right now I can't think of an actual example. I remember in Macbeth there was alot of foreshadowing and so is Romeo and Juliet. A lot of Shakespeare has foreshadowing in it. I like it because it makes you think about the story more and how sometimes life will foreshadow.
ReplyDelete~Alexa