Foreshadowing In Bette Greene's The Happiest Day Of Your Life

The authors of the happiest Day of Your Life by Bette Greene and Examination Day by Henry Slensar Day both use Foreshadowing in order to convey their key theme of intelligence. The use of foreshadowing helps convey the theme of intelligence in both stories by how the characters talk and interacted with people. In Examination day the use of foreshadowing is used by Dick when he asks many question to his father such as questions like “what exam?” or “how far away is the sun?” this show he is very eager to learn and wants to learn more about the world he lives in. This foreshadows his death later by being intelligence and passing the exam. In the happiest Day of Your Life intelligence is showed by how the father and two oldest children act towards …show more content…
Setting in Examination day is described “Mable floor of the great pillared lobby, passed beneath an arch way and entered an automatic elevator that brought them to the fourth floor”. This description seem as though the hall are narrow and lonely. It also makes the reader fell small and isolated with the” “Mable floor of the great, pillared lobby” these words tell us it huge and well built by the government with luxurious marble floors. In the happiest Day of Your Life the setting of the royal road is an expensive school and only for the wealthiest family can afford to enrol their children in. jean is fells left out and alone since she never in enrolled in to the royal road and all three of her children have. The setting from her perspective shows that she is the odd one out from her family since she doesn’t have high intelligence. She is often overruled by Doug because he is recognised as the dominant parent by his intelligence. Jean fells “shut off from her family” and sits in the back seat of the car, showing that she is alone and has no privileges of being a parent. These to themes are connective by the worthy setting and the loneliness of the