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Robert Graves, "The Shout"
At the same time in this story was something mysterious. It was interesting that Rachel and Richard had the same dream that later in some way come true because Richard met this person from his dream and something started to go wrong. He couldn’t explain what exactly. I think that sometimes people take things very close to heart, especially if these things are connected with them. I think that Richard very sharply took his dream and we later saw this unknown person, who had so many things in common with a person from his dream, he was confused and maybe thats way he couldn’t in some moments separate the real things, which was happening and those, which was in his mind. That made him felt puzzled and he even started to think that he was mad.
This story was weird, but at the same time it had some kind of moral in it. Well, maybe some of readers get it, but some not. I think that it depends on how we understad this story. If we want to see or read in it something, what could be useful for us than we will read it. For example, maybe we should think if we also don’t have in us some things, which haven’t been shouted out.
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The short story by Robert Graves, ‘The Shout’ wasn’t easy to read because this story was mystical and in some parts it was even hard to believe, but when we are reading this story, we start to think about things, that author was trying to say to readers. We have to think about some abstract things like soul, relationships in-between people and even supernatural abilities. Sometimes also about things in which we believe or not. At the beginning of this story, reader may ask to himself how can he believe to this mystical story, which is told by Crossley, if he is mentaly ill person, who in his delusion say’s that he is a murderer. Later in story, where he is telling, that he is this strange person Charles , Crossley again has mentioned these murders in Sydney. So if
