Benito has a conversation with camila, the camp director, at the end of his first day of work. how does his reaction after the conversation serve as foreshadowing?

In the story “Whistling my troubles away”, Camila is the camp director and Benito is substituting as counselor for his cousin, Luci. Benito is supposed to come up with a play for the kids to perform by the end of two weeks.

On his first day, Benito gets discouraged by how difficult it is to control the kids and have them focus on a single task. That night, however, Camila thanks him for his help and tells Benito a foundation will send a representative to watch the kids’ play. The man will decide if the camp’s drama program shall receive money from his foundation to be implemented. Camila also lets Benito know that a big production is not expected from him and the children, but he feels very nervous anyway.

His reaction to the conversation is to start whistling, since that’s what he does when he is nervous. And such reaction serves as foreshadowing because whistling is exactly what helps Benito come up with a skit. On his last day before the performance, a completely-out-of-hope Benito begins to whistle and one of the little girls, Mariana, asks him to teach her. She learns fast and all the other kids are impressed and want to learn as well. That ends up being what they perform, and the representative is satisfied. He tells Benito, ‘You got them coordinated on a single task. They had fun. They gave a performance. What more do you expect from seven-year-olds?’

answer: he would chuck as much wood as he could chuck if he could chuck wood with a wood chuck

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.