How does it happen?!

"...a being which hhad the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs." (pg. 8) Foreshadowing is a great tool used by authors to keep the reader intrigued. Some foreshadowing may be obvious as they take place in a dream or are revealed in other forms. However, this foreshadow is quite different than others examples I have read. This is very vague and almost seems as if it is meaningless when we first read it. However, we then see Victor come on board the ship shortly afterwards and this gives us the idea that the creature could have been that man on the sled earlier and Victor was chasing him. This leads the reader, and definitely lead me, to think how could the story progress to such an absurd setting and situation. The use of this foreshadow causes the reader to become curious and motivates them, as it did me, to read further into the novel and figure out what happens. This is a great method of keeping the novel interesting and flowing. Without tools such as this, novels would not be as interesting and authors would have a harder time keeping the reader concentrated and interested in the novel.

We already know!

"We shall meet where there is no darkness" (pg. 25)

So far throughout the first part of the novel, much foreshadowing has occurred. The quote given is from a dream Winston had of O'Brien and he says this. On page 179, this phrase is repeated by Winston to O'Brien because they are finally meeting like in Winston's dream. This also occurs in other parts of the story like Winston dreaming about the Golden Country and then actually seeing it with Julia. Also, the same occurs when he dreams about a naked Julia casting her clothes aside and the same thing then happens when he first makes love to her. So one thing all these foreshadows have in common is that they all take place in Winston's dreams. However, I am not exactly sure why these foreshadows exist and what function they play. One reason that I have come up with is that the author is saying that there is some type of connection between Winston's dreams and his reality. Or at the very least, the connection between the two symbolizes something. Maybe the purpose of the foreshadowing in the dreams is to say that reality barely resembles reality at all and is just a dream or an allusion. The Party has changed the past and its facts so much that what is true in the present then. Everything is about as true as a dream is true.

All makes sense

In the story "A Rose for Emily", their are a few details that foreshadow the ending of the story. First of all, the arsenic she bought is one of the biggest indicators that she poisoned the man. When she bought it, she would not give the reason for buying the poison. Also, when people knew she bought it, they thought that she did that so that she could poison herself. But when that doesn't happen, then you begin to wonder why she bought the arsenic, which was for her love. Also, another indicator is that when Homer returned home, he was never seen again. And this is very suspicious as well. A final detail that foreshadows the ending is whenever anybody saw Emily through her downstairs window, there was not one time when people saw Homer as well. So all these details lead to the end of the story when the people find Homer dead on the mattress.

Bits and pieces

O' Brien did not write this book as just one continual story that followed a specific timeline. It's written in many miny stories as I have mentioned in previous blogs. Becuase of this, O' Brien tends to reiterate parts of stories he had already talked about. But also what he will do is foreshadow events that he will eventually come to. For example, on page 37, he says, "A slim, dead, dainty young man of about twenty. Kiowa saying, 'No choice, Tim. What else could oyu do?' Kiowa saying, 'Right?' Kiowa saying, 'Talk to me.' " This gives the impression that maybe Tim killed a man but I was never too sure. Then this was affirmed in the chapter "The Man I Killed." In this chapter he goes into detail about how he killed the man and how he felt about it after. I like how O' Brien foreshadowed because it goes along with what he was explaning at the time and it also keeps you wanting to know what was really going on when Kiowa was talking to him.

We know it's coming

As we all know, Brett isn't shy when it comes to men. Pretty much everyone in the group knows that she has had affairs with many different men. However, it is easy to tell that she is soon going to fall for another. On page 169, she begins to talk about the bullfighter Pedro Romero. Brett says, "Oh, isn't he [Romero] lovely. And those green trousers." Mike then replies by saying how she never took her eyes off of them. Since she seems to "fall in love" easily, one would think that she will become interested, and sure enough she does. In chapter 16, she tells Jake how she has fallen in love with Romero. The way the author foreshadows this is very effective. He only has her make a remark or two about Romero, but from that, you get the hint that she is goint to start liking him too.