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Definition of Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Foreshadowing can be achieved directly or indirectly, by making... read full definition
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Foreshadowing can be achieved... read full definition
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the... read full definition
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—The Reverend's Murder:
In Chapter 1, when the Judge murders Reverend Green by lying to the congregants to whom the Reverend was preaching, he foreshadows the religious tension that is central to the novel in an allusion to Judas and Jesus:
I feel it my duty to inform you that the man holding this revival is an imposter. He holds no papers of divinity from any institution recognized or improvised. He is altogether devoid of the least qualification to the office he has usurped and has only committed to memory a few passages from the good book for the purpose of lending to his fraudulent sermons some faint flavor of the piety he despises.... Oh God, cried the reverend. Lies, lies! He began reading feverishly from his opened bible.... This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands.
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Explanation and Analysis—Birth of the Kid :
The novel begins with the kid's father describing the birth of the kid, which is an allusion to Jesus and the Bible and foreshadows the role of religion in Blood Meridian:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
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