There is astonishing
foreshadowing in the short story " The Lottery " by Shirley Jackson.
The lottery is about a community coming together to stone a selected
individual. In the beginning of the story it mentions kids running around,
playing and gathering stones into piles and shoveling them into pockets. If you
were to read this for the first time you wouldn't think much of the stones but,
it is a key point in the story.
Foreshadowing is
giving hints in the text that are shown and affect the story later. In "
The Lottery " there are small points in foreshadowing and there are big
ones. In this story as I mentioned earlier, the stones are a huge hint because
if you read the short story for the first time you would think the kids
gathering stones would be to stone someone, you would think they were playing.
This is how the author shows foreshadowing in a discrete matter
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