Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Signalman.

-Written by Charles Dickens
-Specter- ghost
The signalman seems to be having problems with hauntings or a ghost. The ghost is seemingly trying to warn him of bad happenings, but he cannot stop these bad things. A man is walking by and sees the signal man and soon befriends the man in a way. He is interested in these hauntings or strange happenings that the signalman informs him of. He tells about the how he keeps seeing this ghost right before the train comes leading to terrible events. In the end the signalman hears the ghosts warning again and with his curiosity in trying to stop it he goes down to the tracks. He does not hear the train coming. The train's instructor is yelling for him to to move and the man he befriended is at the top of the hill too. He is yelling for him to "Watch out!". These warnings are mixed, however, with the ghosts and the signalman doesn't even notice. He is hit by the train and dies. After all of this we see that the ghosts warnings were actually the warning of the signalman's own death.

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