Premonition

I must admit I still cannot understand what “The Signal-Man” is about. Anyhow, I could relate some of its key words while discussing it in the class.

The opposition between isolation and community was well depicted in the story by using this box in a trench and the train which moved from one city to another full of passengers that traveled to be in the community of their relatives or acquaintances.

Again, we could see that the fear of the unknown is very present at the story in the character of the signal man. He could not decipher this supernatural phenomenon of seeing a ghost warning him. At the end, I could understand the visions as a premonition of what would happen next.

I would relate the character of the ghost and the premonition with the Grimm in Harry Potter since it has the same effect. Seeing the Grimm was a premonitory sign of your death. As we have discussed all writers include references to previous works of others. We can see that in almost every literary work. Anyway, I really liked the story because it was continually playing with our own fears, and it kept the mystery until the very end.