The Five People You Meet In Heaven Foreshadowing Essay

]While reading the book, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” Mitch Albom projected foreshadowing as one of his literary devices, as well as irony throughout the book. Going into what foreshadowing is, is when an author chooses to invoke warnings/signals of a future event that may take place. Ultimately, it warns the reader what to expect further into their reading with little hints, and guesses. Mr. Albom completed this task in this book specifically on page two, where he wrote, “His legs were thin and veined now, and his left knee, wounded in the war, was ruined by arthritis.” This shows foreshadowing because it gave the reader an indication of a future event. Furthermore, the idea that the wound reflected a person he was going to meet in

Similarly, another way Mr. Albom showed foreshadowing was on page on 127, where he stated, “Like most workingmen's sons, Eddie had envisioned for his father a heroic death to counter the commonness of his life. There was nothing heroic about a drunken stupor by the beach.” This is a huge part of the book where foreshadowing was shown because it gave a warning to the reader that they were going to find out things from Eddie’s past that he held aganist his father for years. Moreover, it foreshadowed what Ruby was going to tell Eddie. As a result, later in the book we find out that Eddie’s dad really did die doing a heroic action because he died trying to save his friend that potentially was going to rape his wife. Secondly, going into the second literary device Mr.Albom used, was irony. Irony is the use of language that perceives something is going to happen, but in the long run, something opposite happens. Furthermore, a way irony was shown in the book was when Eddie was trying to save the little girl from Freddy’s Free Fall, and felt hands touch his hands right before he was going to pass