Literacy Elements In Chopin's Foreshadow

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Foreshadow, is another vital literacy element, which author Chopin marvelously uses in introduction of the story, to drag the reader’s attention and to provide them a clue about end of the story. In the starting, by giving Mrs. Mallard heart’s problem, the author leaves some indication for the readers, to guess about the rest of the story and after reading the introductory part, the reader can easily predict the rest of the story. Author Chopin Declares, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death” (1). Such statements make a mind of reader that probably because of such serious problems; she can lose her life in later story. At the

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