Foreshadowing is an author's way to give small, secretive events that predict the end of the story. “The Flowers”by Alice Walker and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell each include foreshadowing as a big part of the story. In both of these stories the foreshadowing in each takes the characters and changes them. In both “The Flowers” by Alice Walker and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the authors show the character's entry into the real world and change through foreshadowing in the exposition and rising action.
In “The Flowers,” Alice Walker foreshadows the loss of the protagonist’s innocence. Myop, a 10 year old girl, lives the innocent life of a child. One day, she explores her well known woods on her own, never expecting …show more content…
Walker foreshadows this by her word choice. “She [Myop] had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep” (Walker 6). The author uses words such as strangeness, not as pleasant, gloomy, damp and deep to give little hints that she is about to come across something that will change the direction of the story and her life. The words Walker chooses foreshadows the events of the ending, as clearly shown above. Myop beings to understand the real world and loses her childhood innocence when she finds a dead man at the end of the story.
In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the author foreshadows the change in the protagonists view on hunting. Rainsford, the protagonist of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” learns the importance of the huntee. Rainsford is an expert of hunting and a man of game that argues how huntees are less of importance. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?"
"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed
In “The Flowers,” Alice Walker foreshadows the loss of the protagonist’s innocence. Myop, a 10 year old girl, lives the innocent life of a child. One day, she explores her well known woods on her own, never expecting …show more content…
Walker foreshadows this by her word choice. “She [Myop] had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep” (Walker 6). The author uses words such as strangeness, not as pleasant, gloomy, damp and deep to give little hints that she is about to come across something that will change the direction of the story and her life. The words Walker chooses foreshadows the events of the ending, as clearly shown above. Myop beings to understand the real world and loses her childhood innocence when she finds a dead man at the end of the story.
In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the author foreshadows the change in the protagonists view on hunting. Rainsford, the protagonist of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” learns the importance of the huntee. Rainsford is an expert of hunting and a man of game that argues how huntees are less of importance. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?"
"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed