How Does W. F Harvey Use Foreshadowing In August Heat

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Who Knows What Will Happen Next... Picture yourself walking into your home from a good night spending, you put your stuff down and lay on the couch. Suddenly you hear footsteps upstairs and a big thump. Curiosity gets to you, so you go upstairs to check on what it was; no one could be in the house, you live alone. You walk into your room and start examining every corner, nothing. Once you’re about to leave the door slams shut, the light turns off, and the window shatters; trying to reach for the switch the light turns back on and in front of you a black figure stands and whispers your name slowly. This type of story is designed to make your heart beat as fast as a buzzer, they are known as horror stories. A writer tries to scare the reader by trying to relate to relate to everyone’s fear, or by using suspense. Suspense is needed for a good horror story; writers would use reversal or foreshadowing. …show more content…

Foreshadowing uses hints to suggest events later in the plot; just like in the short story, “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey. He uses foreshadowing by suggesting a frightening event that awaits the main character. “August Heat” is about two men, unknown to each other, whose glimpses of the other’s possible future suggest that one of them will die in some way. The narrator foreshadows, when Mr. Atkinson, the man that James drew, was engraving a stone and it had the James full name, the date he was born, and the date the he will pass away. Mr. Atkinson said that he didn’t see it anywhere, he just wanted a name, and it was the first thing that came into his

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