On the Beach
How does the author use foreshadowing in On the Beach?
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The epigraph, which is in the beginning of the novel, quotes Elliot's, The Hollow Men.
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
This foreshadows the death and destruction resulting from the radiation posioning, which is quickly approaching Australia.
On the Beach