The Skeleton Key Ending

           This was horrifying. I was being strangled for the outside in. Before I even moved Itchoua was already pulling something out of the wall, from a place I had never seen. He opened a large kit marked emergency and started mixing things. Then I remembered, he had used to be a scientist before he retired to this job.
        "Rat poison, I am making an advanced rat poison," he explained, never looking up.
         Days passed and he never moved from the lap top unless he was throwing a new batch out the window. It got so bad we had to force feed him, but the rats never died. Contrary to that, the rats seemed to get more vicious with each questionable liquid that was thrown at them. Finally Itchoua stood up in a daze. A sudden anger struck him and he chucked some chemicals across the room which immediately started a fire. Le Gleo raced to put it out, less the rats got in but Itchoua just stood up and hit the wall where the lab top had been.
        "We are doomed," he choked out in a strangled voice.
        Blizzards of dust billowed out of the hiding place where the scientific kit had been stored. Something shiny caught my eye and I stumbled over and groped around until it was firmly locked in my grip. I released and found I was staring at a dainty silver key with three skeletons dancing on top.
        "What is that," Le Gleo questioned.
        "A key, and I bet I know right where it goes." With that, Itchoua took off toward our bunk room. He struggled with a bed until there was a space in between it and the wall, revealing an indent in the wall in the exact for of the key. I fumbled clumsily to put the key into the imprint, knowing that this could be our last hope. Suddenly a groan filled the room and the wall pulled back revealing a tunnel. We cautiously started down it, then wisely turned back. Gathering what we could of our dwindling supplies we began a hike that could end in death. Having only a lighter to illuminate the tunnel we trekked for what seemed like years until our food and water was gone and we were are the brink of madness and starvation. We saw the light...we were dying, but wait was that the metropolitan buzz of a city. I resisted the urge to fall to my knees, knowing very well I might not be able to get back up again and dragged my companions 50 more yards to the exit of the tunnels. I had walked 20 miles, under the ocean to save my.....that was when I blacked out.
        I woke up in the hospital with two nurses peering at me over their clip boards.
        "You saved them you know?" One red headed one smiled down at me.
        "No, I didn't, the skeleton key did," They just looked at me like I was crazy. But years later Itchoua, Le Gleo, and I still laugh and shudder about this. Now we are on a new island. It was named in our honor. The
         Skeleton Rat Island.

Foreshadowing in The Westing Game

             There are many examples of foreshadowing in The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin but the one I have chosen is a very mysterious. Foreshadowing is "the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand"(http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=foreshadowing) In the book there is a bomber who is targeting people and this quote gives an awesome example of foreshadowing, "But the Wexler apartment was exactly where the bomber planned to set the next bomb" (Raskin 80). This is telling you where the next bombing is going to happen, therefore revealing part of the plot. By telling us this fact as you read on you are always on your toes expecting a bombing to happen at any time.The author cleverly showed us a new part of the story without giving too much information away like the time, date, ect. which made people excited to read on.This piece of foreshadowing helped move the story along from the last bombing to the next part of the book without saying 'Then this happened, and then this happened' it gave you something to think about or to be worried about. Overall a very intriguing foreshadow.