Foreshadow

"Slogging to the edge of the road with his back to the child where he stood bent with his hands on his knees, coughing. He raised up and stood with weeping eyes. On the gray snow a fine mist of blood." (McCarthy, 30).

"When he woke again he thought the rain had stopped. But that wasnt what woke him. He'd been visited in a dream by creatures of a kind he'd never seen before. They did not speak. He thought that they'd been crouching by the side of his cot as he slept and then had skulked away on his awakening. He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. he tried to remember the dream but he could not. All that was left was the feeling of it. He thought perhaps they'd come to warn him. Of what? That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over." (154-5).

"Everyday is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie." (238).

"He turned and looked at the boy. Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for the bus." (275).

These four quotes are the most important quotes that foreshadow The Man's death. The first one clearly shows that all is not well with his health as he coughs up blood. The second describes what I believed to be his hope fading. He realizes he can not do as much for his son as he wishes, and that he just wishes he could die. The third comes out and basically says it, as he talks to himself and comes to terms that he is dying. The fourth comes near the very end of the novel, as he now pictures his son as an orphan to his impending death.