Foreshadowing In Achebe's Things Fall Apart

After reading Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, I was impressed by a literary device that Achebe used heavily throughout the book: Foreshadowing. The major plots in the novel follows a chronological order, which makes foreshadowing a very effective way to unfold the plots layer by layer, and shows the readers how things gradually fall apart, one after another. In addition, foreshadowing hints to the readers what might happen in the later chapters, which engages the readers and makes the novel very intriguing to read. The first example of foreshadowing is about Ikemefuna. At the very end of Chapter 1, the author mentions Ikemefuna for the first time, and says that he was “ill-fated”. (Achebe 8) This foreshadowing intrigues the readers to