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Use Of Foreshadowing In The Siege At Whale Cay
Imagine you’re a regular working class individual supporting your family, until one day you wake up and realize you’re in the wrong field, so you quit your job and decide to help make a difference in this world by focusing on my what matters to you most. Social conscious is the main theme in the short story “The Siege at Whale Cay” by Megan Mayhew Bergman, as it made clear through the struggles the protagonist, Georgie faces.

Bergman uses foreshadowing in the first paragraph to give the reader a clue of what is to come later in the short fiction. For example, “Georgie woke up in bed alone. She slipped into a swimsuit and wandered out to a soft stretch of white sand Joe called Femme Beach. The Caribbean sky was cloudless, the air already hot.

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