Samuel Foreshadowing Analysis

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In the beginning Samuel tries to find food to survive. This scene shows how sensory details are used to inform the reader of how Samuel try to survive. The author uses foreshadowing to show when Samuel is finding his parents. The foreshadowing shows is because it is when Samuel tries to find his parents. “One day it seemed he was eleven and playing in the dirt around the cabin or helping with chores, and the next, he was thirteen, carrying .40-caliber Pennsylvania flintlock rifle, wearing smoked-buckskin clothing and moccasins, moving through the woods like a knife through water while he tracked deer to bring home to the cabin” (Paulsen 3).
This is how Samuel tries to find food and his parents. When he was looking for food and his parents

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