Tuesday, January 26, 2016

In Chapter 2 of Alas, Babyon, what examples of foreshadowing are there that involve cars?

Let us remind ourselves that foreshadowing is when the
author plants hints in earlier chapters about what is to come later on in the novel. You
might want to consider the description of Randy's car that we are given at the beginning
of the second chapter of this great novel. Note how the one negative element about his
car seems to point towards some kind of future problem with
it:



Randy got
into his new Bonneville. It was a sweet car, a compromise between a sports job and a
hard top, long, low, very fast, and a lost of fun, even though its high-compression
engine drank premum fuel in
quantity.



Given what we know
is going to happen at this stage in the novel, we therefore are given grounds to suspect
that this might be an issue with the car, as the nuclear holocaust will undoubtedly make
securing fuel for Randy's car difficult.

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