Foreshadowing In Mrs Alvarez's 'Spring'

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Spring was a very hefty chapter that included many pivotal points in the book for many characters. These changes are foreshadowed by the point Claudia made at the beginning of Spring by associating the change in season with being beaten which ties in with the events of the following chapters that involve oppression or pain of some sort. The innocence that Claudia still has is interesting. Her assumption that a sexual situation always feels good which Frieda also used to believe, however, her interaction with Mr. Henry conveys her passage from a child to a woman as she now lacks the innocence that a child possesses. Further, in the chapter, the events involving Mrs. Breedlove and Polly add to a point I made in class during the discussion

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