Laurence's use of Lilacs to foreshadow Bad Events in The They often say if you want to gain something you need to lose something in return. Hagar Shipley did this by purchasing a dress that she liked if she knew that she would have to sacrifice her independence that purchase would have never happened. In the novel The Margaret Laurence uses the first person narrative to describe Hagar Shipley's life the good times and the bad times. Margaret Laurence uses flower and colour imagery to symbolize the foreshadowing of disastrous events that occu ....