wider reading

Wider Reading Assignment

The two short stories “The Signalman” and “The Darkness Out There” are both similar in the way that they are both about shocking and horrifying incidents involving death. Also they both have endings which are surprising and unexpected.
Both writers involve death in there stories. In 'The Signalman' the incidents that involve death are the fire, which happened in the train tunnel, which many people died. Then there was the death of a young woman on the train that the signalman saw as it went past and finally the death of the signalman, which is also the tragic ending where he gets run over by the train. In 'The Darkness Out There' the incidents in the story that involve death are when Mrs. Rutter is telling Sandra and Kerry about the plane crash in the woods, where she left the German soldier to die. The surprising ending to the story is that the two children went into the house thinking that Mrs. Rutter was a sweet old lady, but she turns out t...