Fox Hunt: A Comparison

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The author uses flashback and foreshadowing in both “Old Ben” and “Fox Hunt”. In “Old Ben” the narrator found a snake and took it home and kept it as a pet and the snake ends up dying later on in the story. In “Fox Hunt” Andy was walking home one day and this girl showed up out of nowhere and he has a dream about her that she is a fox and then one day she went to sit down and he saw her have a tail. Flashbacks are being used as well as foreshadowing in both stories. The authors uses flashback in a similar ways. Flashback is used to reveal something about the character in each story. In “Old Ben” when the narrator says “i've had a lot of pets- groundhogs, crows, and hawks- but Old Ben’s the best yet”. This flashback reveals that the narrator