Foreshadowing In Isaac Asimov's Rain, Go Away

In Isaac Asimov’s “Rain, Rain, Go Away”, we readers can see that foreshadowing and the setting of the short story play a key role in impacting its meaning. Readers are shown how the characters of the story, the Sakkaros, were terrified of the rain and how the events within the story led to their demise. Foreshadowing is shown throughout the story. One example is on page 5, on lines 2-3, the youngest Sakkaro boy was “wearing something which turned out to be an aneroid barometer,” creating a sense of tension in which the reader may wonder why he had a barometer. Another example is when Lillian Wright offers some orange juice to Mrs. Sakkaro, who “jumped when she said no”, having you think that “I’d thrown in in your face”. Another literary device,

This theme emerges as Lillian and George Wright are curious of the Sakkaros, judging every little thing that they would do. Readers can see this especially when Lillian takes notice of how clean the Sakkaros’ kitchen was. On page 4, Lillian Wright described it as “so spanking clean you just couldn’t believe she ever used it.” The theme is supported further when the Wrights were trying to be kind to the Sakkaros while in Murphy’s Park, but were impatient and agitated while hanging out with them. On page 6, George said that if he saw the Sakkaros eating any more cotton candy, he’d “turn green and sicken on the spot”, showing that while him and Lillian did invite the Sakkaros to get to know each other, they still judged them. Lastly, the theme is refined while on the way back from the park, the impatient Sakkaros urge the Wrights to hurry home. On page 7, the irked Sakkaros are frantic, trying to get home as fast as they possibly could, yet “the drive back seemed to stretch interminably”. In turn, the Wrights had felt as if they were being rushed. Ultimately when they arrived home, the Sakkaros rush inside their home, only to melt into sugar as the rain poured down. The Sakkaros had “shriveled, collapsing within their clothes, which sank down into three sticky-wet heaps” (pg. 7), showing that with their judgements,