(Waiting For) The Ghost Train

In the written pieces, “Grass” by Carl Sandburg, Traveling through the Dark”, by William E. Stafford, Mirror” by Sylvia Plath, and “Bidwell Ghost” by Louise Edrich all have symbolism. In the poem “Grass” by Carl Sandburg, he portrays renewal by using grass. The way he words the sentences gives a though of how grass covers up, or grows over where damage has been done. From the short poem, one line that relates to grass says, “I am the grass, I cover all” (Sandburg line 3). As you read on he says

boyfriend to go find answers. At the very beginning of the story it takes place on a train. Natalie and Jonathan are running away from the supernatural demons, spirits, and ghost that seems to follow them everywhere they go. In the very beginning of the story Jonathan and Natalie are introduced as cousins. They were pretending to be cousins, so no one would suspect him as the kid who killed his family. Couple hours on the train and people began to recognize him. He noticed and switched from his english accent

as we see him struggle and overcome obstacles. The author uses the motifs of hunger, discrimination, and religion to represent his quest and to emphasize on all the challenges life throws at him. Richard’s life is horribly scarred by the haunting ghost of hunger. During his stay at West Helena, once Aunt Maggie has left with his new uncle, Richard and his family are left with no money to buy food. A few weeks after his aunt’s departure, “hunger [haunts him] so

narrates “The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour” (Fitzgerald, 24). The words “dismal scene” are a contrast to what the rich experience in their luxurious environment. Additionally, waiting “as long as half an hour” is uncommon for residents of East and West Egg. Another example of the disconnect of rich and poor occurs when Fitzgerald

month without any sign of his ghost collaborator, he has a complete break down. His agent who has had growing concerns of his sanity arrives at the house just as he is running about hestrically shouting and turning over the furniture frantically in what seems a final desperate effort to reunite with the phantom. This is enough reason to allow the physician and his two burly assistants brought along by he agent to forcibly subdue him bodily and bring him to the waiting ambulance to be restrained and

believe it all the more. O'Brien plays with similar ideas about truth, elaborating on it in the chapter How to Tell a True War Story. The story Sanders tells about the men and the mountain, speaks of strange sounds, almost sounds like it's a story about ghosts, and he mentions how he doesn't really remember all of the details, so some of it may be exaggerated.

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where fear gets the better of him in a room which might not be haunted in the end. The other short story is “The Signalman” by Charles Dickens. In The signalman a man lives separated from the real world living a lonely life as a signal man at a train station and thinks he might be being visited by

A Comparison of The Signalman and The Red Room The Signalman and the Red Room are well known examples of nineteenth century ghost stories. Write a critical comparison of these two stories. What do you consider to be their strengths and which of the stories do you enjoy the most. Charles Dickens and H.G. Wells were both living during the Victorian era. The many radical changes in this era tainted their writing. Both Wells and Dickens were against the social situation

Over the years, his memory became crowded with cobwebs and dust. Faces of the travelers he guided slowly faded like the photographs in his leather trunk, but occasionally wander back to him in dreams. His elderly face, a tan leather after years of the scorching Southwest sun looking down upon him in the Grand Canyon, still shows signs of vitality. To him, the aging of his body is happily nostalgic, reflecting his youth during the 1920’s and 1930’s at the San Gabriel Ranch. Anyone who knows Sandy