How does the author use foreshadowing in Love Medicine?

Lyman foreshadows the story's dark ending in the novel's very first paragraph. Although the phrase, "boots filled with water", fills the reader with curiousity, we know by the end of the chapter that the "water" signifies death from the time it's introduced.

I owned that car along with my brother Henry Junior. We owned it together until his boots filled with water on a windy night and he bought out my share. Now Henry owns the whole car, and his younger brother Lyman (that's myself), Lyman walks everywhere he goes.