Suspense And Foreshadowing In 'The Last Night Of The World'

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When everyone has one night left in the world, what would they do? In the story "The Last Night of The World" there is a man who says that he had a dream that the world is going to end, but the odd part was that he didn't act any different. He went on with his day like nothing had happened, which was weird because at his work there were many people who said they had the same dream. "The Last Night of the World" by Ray Bradbury uses the literary devices of suspense and foreshadowing to show evidence of how everyone shows acceptance to death.

Throughout this story, foreshadowing was used many times. At the beginning of the story, the husband is telling his wife that he had a dream. His dream was that a voice told him that the world was

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