In at least 100 words, explain the author’s use of foreshadowing in Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time.”

Explanation:

Nadine Gordimer's inverted fairy tale "Once Upon a Time," is about a racist couple who are so afraid of other people that they isolate themselves from the rest of society until it ultimately leads to a terrible loss. There is a foreshadowing that something will happen at the end of the story. The first example of foreshadowing is the inverted fairy tale format. This story is an inverted fairly because instead of starting when life is bad and ending with, "they lived happily ever after," this story starts with a "happy" life and ends with a terrible loss. The introduction of the story introduces that the couple lives happily. This immediately foreshadows that a cloud is going to pass over this happiness and a terrible event is going to happen at the end. Another example of foreshadowing is when the author describes the couple's neighborhood watch sign. The reads, "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" over the silhouette of an intruder. Literally, these are words on the watch sign to discourage intrusion, but they also foreshadow that the couple has been warned of impending doom due to their almost obsession with isolation. In the context of South Africa, which the house represents, this means that the system of apartheid will come apart sooner or later since fear and the discrimination against people based on it never goes anywhere good.

*meditation

*music

*reading

*playing games

*going out to eat

if you don't mind posting the paragraph so i could read it that would a lot. (;