An example of foreshadowing in this passage is when Urashima Taro reaches his old town to meet his parents once more. He notices a strange difference. The author states, "The shore is the same and the hills are the same, but the people that he sees walking past him have very different faces to those he had known so well before." The way that the statement ends shows that something has changed that the reader will find out later in the passage. What the statement is foreshadowing is that the world has come long into the future were Urashima should have died a long time ago. He is now only supposed to be in history.

Foreshadowing