Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing: Is a literary device in which the author hints what is to come such as a warning or indication of a future event.
Examples in The Giver:
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Print.
Examples in The Giver:
- Jonas apprehensive about the ceremony showing that his job will be important. (Lowry 12)
- When Jonas sees the apple, Fiona's hair, and the books. (Lowry 30) (Lowry 114) (Lowry 119)
- The fact that Jonas is permitted to lie; this foreshadows the idea that other characters have been lying all along, when he is raised to believe no one lies. (Lowry 87)
- Divergent
- When Tris runs away from the Dauntless headquarters temporarily to see her brother, and he tells her that “something big is happening,” that “people keep rushing around, talking quietly,” and that “Jeanine gives speeches about how corrupt Abnegation is all the time, almost every day.” This revelation foreshadows the future war and rebellion. (ReadingWithLea)
- The Hunger Games
- A foreshadowing event in the Hunger Games would be when Prim gets chosen to go to the Hunger Games then Katniss starts thinking "this can't be happening, I have to do something" at that moment Katniss volunteers for her sister. (ChaCha)
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Print.
- Isbell, Lea. "Divergent by Veronica Roth: A Literary Analysis." Reading with Lea. Wordpress.com, 16 Sept. 2013. Web. 14 Dec. 2014. <http://readingwithlea.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/divergent-by-veronica-roth-a-literary-analysis/>.