The scourge of westeros Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Sideshadowing suggests not what happened or what will happen, but what else might happen/have happened in a story. Sideshadowing techniques include:Unanswered questionsLoose endsHalf-told storiesDigressionsHistorical backdrops vaguely referencedUnexposed backstorySideshadowing is sort of an argument against inevitability, if you will. Where foreshadowing and linear "ideal" stories close off narratives step-by-step, sideshadowing opens up a narrative moment-by-moment, offering the reader the idea of more than a single possible outcome.What events or passages do you guys think is sideshadowing??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XSarellaX Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Every passagem that mentioned Rhaegar plotting against his father, they make you wonder what would have happened had he succeded.Barbrey Dustin's conversation with Theon about the Southron Ambitious: what were those lords and maesters planning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 On the Quiet Isle we have at least two possible sideshadowing; the wool covering faces of some of the novices and the women's huts. It's mentioned in the chapter that women have been healed by the EB and he tells Bri that the women huts occasionally have visitors, so with covered faces and huts isolated a bit from the main living and farming area of the QI, GRRM has opened lots of possibilities for ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Tyrion riding the pig, foreshadows his coming awful first experience on a dragon (or not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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