Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon: Foreshadowing 1 key example

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

Key Examples in Flowers for Algernon

Progress Report 7
Explanation and Analysis—Lots of Frends:

In the experiment's early stages, Charlie writes about his expectations for friendship and shares what Professor Nemur has told him about keeping progress reports. This passage, which is full of both situational irony and foreshadowing, reveals Charlie’s tragically mistaken hope that intelligence will solve his loneliness:

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time. Prof Nemur says its ok to tell about all the things that happin to me in the progress reports but he says I shoud rite more about what I feel and what I think and remembir about the past. I tolld him I dont know how to think or remembir and he said just try.