Screaming Like A Banshee Analysis

In the beginning of the story, Owen predicts Tabitha’s death will be coming soon. He basis it off the idea of John’s grandmother screaming “like a Banshee”. Dan, who was Tabitha’s husband at the time, tries to understand how he is coming up with this. He finds in the dictionary that screaming like a banshee is used in Irish-folklore to foretell a woman’s death. Owen proves himself to be correct at the baseball game. He goes up to bat and he has been instructed to never hit the ball but just run the bases because he was the fastest. The one time he does swing at it, the ball swirls into the crowd and ends up smacking Tabitha in the head and kills her. This also goes back to when Owen is with Dan and Tabitha in the car at their wedding. Tabitha