If one pays careful attention to the detail authors put into writing their books, one may find little hints as to what is going to happen by the end of the book. On page 11 of Reservation Blues, we are introduced to “the-man-who-was-probably-Lakota.” Throughout the book, this man continues to scream “The end of the world is near!”. At the time we are first introduced to this man, Robert Johnson had just given Thomas his guitar. We see that this crazy Lakota man foreshadows Thomas’s destiny. He shows that the guitar Johnson gives Thomas will ultimately bring Thomas bad luck in the future. His quote, “The end of the world is near!”, shows that the man is predicting the end of Thomas’s world by the end of the book.
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