The signalman is a short story which was written by Charles Dickens during the 19th century. In this book was easy to see the impact that mechanization and globalization had in the signalman´s life. I realized that he was focused just on his work, without taking care of his personal life.
From my point of view, another important aspect was the train the one represented how life was passing in front of his eyes. In that sense this short story gave us a message behind; it tells us that we cannot permit that life goes and we have not done anything different. We need to enjoy life and to profit it.
From my point of view, another important aspect was the train the one represented how life was passing in front of his eyes. In that sense this short story gave us a message behind; it tells us that we cannot permit that life goes and we have not done anything different. We need to enjoy life and to profit it.
I strongly believe that literature shows us what really happens in our lives and also makes us think about real issues. For that reason it is necessary to try to interpret what a text tries to tell us. Through literature we can understand real life situations because everything is being shown from a different perspective. In some cases literature can be poetic, but the most important aspect is that we have to know how to analyze it, and how to put in practice the learnt message.
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You're right; the signalman shows us how we are taking part of a destructive society without making a big deal of it...
The fact that he saw a ghost instead of anything else is a sign that Dickens used to give the reader the feeling of lost, do you agree? Why? And what kind of lost? Think about Dickens time and ours
Take care,
Claudia
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