What is Parallel episode, Flashback, and Foreshadow?

Parallel Episodes are events that repeat in the story.

A flashback is a transition in a story to an earlier time.

Foreshadowing occurs in a literary text when the author gives clues and hints about what is to come in the story.

Explanation:

Parallel Episodes are events that repeat in the story. For example, they occur in “The Three Pigs” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” The event being repeated is her trying each thing in the house three times.

A flashback is a transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the normal chronological order of events. A flashback in a movie might show what happened when a character was younger. Flashbacks are used to prove or contradict something in the present, or comedic effect.

Foreshadowing occurs in a literary text when the author gives clues and hints about what is to come in the story.  An example of Foreshadowing is a pipe is going to burst, but before it does, the author writes a scene where the family notices a small dark spot on the ceiling but ignores it.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.