I see Foreshadowing
"They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island" A Good Man is Hard to Find 6).
This sentence in the book foreshadows the family's ultimate fate. The way the grandmother describes the graveyard to the children is eerie and the plantation family's eternal resting place is together in that field. Just miles down the road, the traveling family will meet their fate together. I have read this story before, but reading it a second time, I was able to pick up more closely on the foreshadowing and symbolism of the story.
Not only was I finding those elements but I was able to carefully read the characters better than before. The grandmother really does mean more to this story than I had thought. She is witty and humorous, but she is the key of foreshadowing. Who plans their outfit to make a statement incase they are found dead? She is the ssource of foreshadowing. There are hints of the family's fate, which makes the story more exciting especially the second time around.