How does the author use foreshadowing in Half a Day?

The author foreshadows the narrator's death in the two encounters he has with other male figures. One is the boy he meets at school whose father is dead. Then, upon leaving school, the narrator encounters an acquaintance, a middle-aged man who is instantly recognizable to the narrator. The man answers the question of how he is doing with the words, "'not all that good."' In this response, the narrator's death is symbolically foretold. The aging of the man's corporeal body is also reflected in the run-down state in which he finds the streets of Cairo. While the narrator's eventual death is a foregone conclusion, these elements further reinforce the inevitable cycle of birth and death—the cycle of change.