In A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; there is a wine spill that indicates that foreshadowing is taking place which reveals later events. The wine spill occurs in Chapter 5 when loads of people rush to the scene to get the wine. All of the people are trying different ways to drink the wine. A quote that I found indicates this.
"All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink some wine"(Dickens-20). This quote means since the wine spill happened, people took advantage of this in order to get some free wine to drink. Another quote is when the author says "Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers"(Dickens-21). This means that the people were trying to drink the wine quickly before the wine had gone out and had been wasted. The final quote the author says is :"Scrawled upon a wall with his fingers dipped in muddy winelees-BLOOD"(Dickens-22) This quote shows how the the wine on the man's fingers represented blood. I think that this person had encountered some kind of battle or fight. In closing all of these are examples show foreshadowing.
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