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Te Story Of An Hour

The Use of Symbolism to Foreshadow the Future
Often authors use signs to foreshadow events that will happen in the future in their stories. For example an author might write "As he was walking down the dark eerie path dark skies began to form" . Here the writer uses a usually negative sign to foreshadow a negative future. This is the most common way for authors to foreshadow in a story, but it isn't the only way. In some instances authors use symbols to foreshadow the future of a character. Like foreshadowing with signs, symbols can also be used to foreshadow both positive and negative futures. In the two short stories "The story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara the authors use symbols to foreshadow both a positive and negative futures. In "The Story of an Hour" Chopin uses positive symbols to foreshadow a woman's future without her husband who was killed in a railroad accident. In "The Lesson" Bambara uses a toy sailboat to foreshadow both......


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