Chapter 8: FORESHADOWING

Since this novel is all about time travel, the amount of foreshadowing is obvious. Vonnegut makes clever use of his foreshadowing skills. However, I noticed more use in chapter 8 than in any other chapter. The most important event that Vonnegut begins to foreshadow is the Dresden bombing: "It was the next night that about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die" (165). The constant build-up to this life changingoccurance was foreshadowed in the beginning pages. Vonnegut had been foreshadowing the event the entire novel, then the next night, the city of Dresden is vanquished.