Posted by Ed Kiser on May 20, 2004 at 02:29:28 from 205.188.116.10 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Narrator in the first person posted by Robert Dilley on May 18, 2004 at 17:57:22:
In SA, CH20:
"Anyhow nothing more can happen till morning," said
Able-seaman Titty to herself. "John won't try to land in the dark
with one of the leading lights out. I've got Amazon, and Swallow
will be the flagship after all. Nothing more can happen now."
She was wrong. It is never safe to say that nothing more can
happen.
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Is this "foreshadowing of future events?" Sounds like a bit of the author warning us readers of what is about to happen. This is a bit like the classical: "Little did she know, a lot more was to happen."
This kind of thing Ransome does allow to happen, but in such a subtle manner that we may not really be HIT by the fact that the author is warning us of future, soon-to-happen events. Perhaps this is why that unless one is reading with this objective in mind, it is not all that easy to simply recollect such author-warnings in his stories.
Oh, gee, now I gotta sit down and RE-READ this stuff ALL over again, looking for this kind of moment. How wonderful, a real excuse to have another go at it...
Ed Kiser, South Florida