Ray Bradbury's Use Of Foreshadowing

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In A Sound of Thunder we saw many uses of foreshadowing. The author Ray Bradbury uses foreshadowing through repetition and many small hints in the story. His unique style is seen throughout the piece in many places. He foreshadows Eckels’s death, someone stepping off the path, and that time would change if something did not happen the way it was supposed too. The author foreshadows Eckels’s death by mentioning that if you disobey instructions there will be consequences. “Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?” said by Eckels on the first page gives you an idea that he might die because it is mentioned that he was nervous about death more than once. Repetition seems to be the author’s main way to foreshadow because multiple times the