Forshadowing In The Story, Old Ben And Fox Hunt

The stories “Old Ben” and “Fox Hunt” may be different, but, the artists use the same methods to get a reader hooked on their stories. The story “Old Ben” is a narrative nonfiction written by Jesse Stuart about a boy who goes walking in the woods one day, there the boy finds a friendly black snake, the boy then names the snake Old Ben and takes him home where he keeps him in the corncrib, one morning his family’s dog starts going towards the corncrib, then the boy has to confess to keeping the black snake in the corncrib, his father agrees to letting him keep the snake and the family gets attached to him, then little by little Old Ben gets braver and ventures into the hog pen and when the family sees his tracks leading there they know that …show more content…
“Old Ben” and “Fox Hunt” are similar in that in “Old Ben” uses foreshadowing as the narrator remembering what the father has about snakes, it is similar in “Fox Hunt” when Andy has a dream about the running with a fox that has slanted eyes and him knowing he’s seen them before. These examples of foreshadowing are similar because both authors are having their main characters realize that something in the near future will either be good or bad. Another element that is used in both stories is flashback, flashbacks are used to help the reader understand how or why the character acts the way he or she does. In “Old Ben’ and “Fox Hunt” one example of flashback that is used in each story is in “Old Ben” the narrator or main character had a flashback or remembered what his father had said about the only good snake is a dead snake and in “Fox Hunt” Andy remembers or has a flashback of the many stories his father and mother had told him whenever he asks them why he has to study so much. These two examples are the same because it is both of the main characters remembering what their father or father and mother have said them, These may all seem similar and you may think that's all but there are differences