Foreshadowing In Ernest Hemingway's The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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This quote is in the exposition of the story, The Five People You Meet In Heaven. The quote demonstrates many elements of fiction including conflict, theme and it also has some foreshadowing incorporated into it as well. The conflict that this quote foreshadows is the cable snapping and the car that was held up by this cable falling. This quote is another foreshadowing of Eddie’s death and also of the theme of the whole book which is: there are no random acts in life. The theme is demonstrated in this quote because it was a seemingly innocent story, an innocent act which affects many people. All Nikki did was, was drop a key, not even on purpose. The key merely fell out of his pocket when he was riding a ride and it fell into the base of Freddy's

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