The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Style

Foreshadowing
Malcolm X uses foreshadowing to highlight how far his life has taken him as well as to prepare his readers for disappointment and trauma. For example, early in the book he speaks of his successes as well as of his less admirable points. When he moves to Boston, he relates, he hears about Harvard Law School. "No one that day could have told me I would give an address before the Harvard Law School Forum some twenty years later,’’ he continues. A few sentences down the page, he hints, ‘‘I didn't know how familiar with Roseland I was going to become,’’...

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