Foreshadowing

After reading the beginning and how terrible Sykes treated Delia I began to think that something has to happen to Sykes for him to learn a lesson and once he brought home the rattlesnake in the box I knew that later on in the story at some point the snake was going to bite him and sure enough it happened. Once I picked up on the foreshadowing my reading sped up because I was soo excited to find out if Sykes was going to get what he had coming to him. The foreshadowing that the author used made the story more interesting and made me anxious to get to the end.