Junior's fear of baths foreshadow the destructive power of water that will be embodied by Hurricane Katrina Understatement The motifs of clairvoyance and impaired vision, which take shape in personifications of rabbits and Mama Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's "blind" house, foreshadow an imminent apocalypse by implying that both people and things in Bois Sauvage should be alert Esch aligns the flush of the toilet after she and Manny have sex in the elementary school bathroom with the coming hurricane, creating a sense of foreboding Fleas coat Esch's legs at the start of Chapter 4, evoking the dark imagery of the Biblical plagues of Egypt Esch compares her love for Manny to visceral, grotesque imagery such as a dying squirrel's beating heart, foreshadowing the decline of her tryst with Manny Esch's continual comparison of herself to Medea and of Manny to Jason naturally foreshadows her real-life relationship's downfall Esch continually compares various aspects of the Pit property (the broken cars, Mama Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's house, her father's neck, etc.) to rotting carcasses and food Skeetah's foreboding comment that the water moccasins in the Pit lake will not bite him because he smells like death
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