Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
“Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy.”
And just when I thought I’d start screaming, and run around like a crazy man, my father drove up. I started laughing. I was so relieved, so happy, that I LAUGHED. I couldn’t stop laughing. I ran down the hill, jumped into the car, and hugged my dad. I laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.
“Junior,” he said. “What’s wrong with you?”
“You’re alive!” I shouted. “You’re alive!”
“But your sister - ,” he said.
“I know, I know,” I said. “She’s dead. But you’re alive. You’re still alive.”
I laughed and laughed. I couldn’t stop laughing. I felt like I might die of laughing.
I couldn’t figure out why I was laughing. But I kept laughing as my dad drove out of Reardan and headed through the storm back to the reservation.
And then, finally, as we crossed the reservation border, I stopped laughing.
“How did she die?” I asked
“There was a big party at her house, her trailer in Montana-,” he said.
OF COURSE THEY HAD A BIG PARTY! OF COURSE THEY WERE DRUNK! THEY’RE INDIANS!
“They had a big party,” my father said. “And your sister and her husband passed out in the back bedroom. And somebody tried to cook some soup on a hot plate. And they forgot about it and left. And a curtain drifted in on the wind and caught the hot plate, and the trailer burned down quick.”
I swear to you that I could hear my sister screaming.
“The police say your sister never even woke up,” my father said. “She was way too drunk.”
My dad was trying to comfort me. But it’s not too comforting to learn that your sister was TOO FREAKING DRUNK to feel any pain when she BURNED TO DEATH!
How was Mary’s death in the above passage foreshadowed in earlier chapters of the novel?