Foreshadowing occurs in multiple occasions while also tying in with the theme of lost opportunity. Bauby always had the idea of creating a novel about a man with locked-syndrome, which is quite ironic and a bit of foreshadowing due to the fact that this is his same condition. The lost opportunity deals with the writing of his novel. Another instance of foreshadowing occurs a week before Bauby’s stroke. Bauby helps his old-aged father to shave his face because his father can no longer do so without assistance. After Bauby’s stroke when he can no longer shave himself, he says, ““Now I am the one they shave every morning, and I often think of him while a nurse’s aide laboriously scrapes my cheeks with a week-old blade” (Bauby 45). This bit of foreshadowing also reflects upon the lost opportunity of Jean Dominique and his father’s
Foreshadowing occurs in multiple occasions while also tying in with the theme of lost opportunity. Bauby always had the idea of creating a novel about a man with locked-syndrome, which is quite ironic and a bit of foreshadowing due to the fact that this is his same condition. The lost opportunity deals with the writing of his novel. Another instance of foreshadowing occurs a week before Bauby’s stroke. Bauby helps his old-aged father to shave his face because his father can no longer do so without assistance. After Bauby’s stroke when he can no longer shave himself, he says, ““Now I am the one they shave every morning, and I often think of him while a nurse’s aide laboriously scrapes my cheeks with a week-old blade” (Bauby 45). This bit of foreshadowing also reflects upon the lost opportunity of Jean Dominique and his father’s