Madame Defarge, the wood sawyer, Jacques Three, and the Vengeance are all in a meeting and Madame Defarge still wants to kill the rest of Darnay's family, which would be Lucie, little Lucie, and Dr. Manette. Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher are going to leave the country, and decide to meet at the church and then leave so its not so suspicious. Then Madame Defarge shows up at the house and Miss Pross is alone and Miss Pross keeps her occupied for awhile and then get into a quarrel and Miss Pross ends up killing Madame Defarge, but I am unsure how she actually kills her.
It is scary how people would go watch the prisoners get their heads chopped off. Carton then dies from the guillotine. The ending of this story leaves everyone happy. Lucie and Darnay have their whole family, Carton is in a better place and he will be happier there, and Madame Defarge is gone, therefore no one will try to go after Darnay's family. Carton is a wonderful man. He knows he did the right thing and it was better for all of them. He is so brave!
The book always had me guessing. I could never tell what exactly would happen next...I loved the book.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Week 7- A Tale of Two Cities
Dr. Manette's letter is read and it says that he got picked up by two guys and went to their house and there was a sick woman who'd yell "My husband, my father, and my brother!" then counted to ten and said "Hush!" He gave her medicine that the two guys had in the house. Wasn't he scared the medicine would go wrong and kill her? Then there was another sick boy who was stabbed by one of the brothers and was quickly dying. He made a cross with his blood and said that he summoned the brothers and their bad race and then he died. If the brothesr killed him why'd they take Dr. Manette to see or look at him? Then the elder brothers wife, Darnays mom, came to the Doctors house with Darnay trying to explain how she wants to save the family name and be caring and show respect. Defarge was once the doctors servant and that's maybe why he got mad when he found out from the other people that Lucie was getting married because he felt he should of known because of their connection. They then captured the Doctor and in his letter he denounced the two brothers family. Darnay was sentenced to death within 24 hours at the end of this chapter.
They went home and Little Lucie begged for Carton to help her "mommy and daddy" and then Carton killed the fainted Lucie and said "A life you love".
Carton is debating with himself and telling himself that "It is the best, that these people should know there is such a man as I here." Then he went into the Defarge's wine shop and Madame Defarge is so furious still and Defarge wants to stop the fighting but we find out why Madame Defarge is so cruel, it is because the boy and girl who were killed and sick were her brother and sister, which is why she may have the cruelty toward Darnay and his family name also. Then Carton went back to the bank and for Dr. Manette and Mr. Lorry's meeting, but the doctor wasn't there and when he did show up he wanted to finish his shoemaking. We know that he doesn't want Darnay's death and it is bothering him because of his excessive shoemaking requests. Carton found papers permitting them to pass out of the city they're in. I believe Carton will sacrifice his life for Darnay and his family.
It was the night before Darnay was to be prosecuted and he was scared. There was 52 prisoners to be killed that day. He wrote a letter to Lucie, Dr. Manette, and Mr. Lorry. Then hours passed and finally Sydney Carton shows up. They switch clothes, but Darnay is very apprehensive about this idea. Carton told him to start writing what he told him to after they switched clothes. So now the guards think that Carton is Darnay and Darnay is unconscious and was to be taken to the carriage and he will get back to England with Carton's name and papers. Carton was taken to a room with the other people to be killed and he talked to a young girl that warmed his heart and the girl eventually realized it was Darnay, but simply a man being killed in Darnay's spot. In the carriage they are getting closer and closer to their destination point, but are very scared of what's going to happen next.
They went home and Little Lucie begged for Carton to help her "mommy and daddy" and then Carton killed the fainted Lucie and said "A life you love".
Carton is debating with himself and telling himself that "It is the best, that these people should know there is such a man as I here." Then he went into the Defarge's wine shop and Madame Defarge is so furious still and Defarge wants to stop the fighting but we find out why Madame Defarge is so cruel, it is because the boy and girl who were killed and sick were her brother and sister, which is why she may have the cruelty toward Darnay and his family name also. Then Carton went back to the bank and for Dr. Manette and Mr. Lorry's meeting, but the doctor wasn't there and when he did show up he wanted to finish his shoemaking. We know that he doesn't want Darnay's death and it is bothering him because of his excessive shoemaking requests. Carton found papers permitting them to pass out of the city they're in. I believe Carton will sacrifice his life for Darnay and his family.
It was the night before Darnay was to be prosecuted and he was scared. There was 52 prisoners to be killed that day. He wrote a letter to Lucie, Dr. Manette, and Mr. Lorry. Then hours passed and finally Sydney Carton shows up. They switch clothes, but Darnay is very apprehensive about this idea. Carton told him to start writing what he told him to after they switched clothes. So now the guards think that Carton is Darnay and Darnay is unconscious and was to be taken to the carriage and he will get back to England with Carton's name and papers. Carton was taken to a room with the other people to be killed and he talked to a young girl that warmed his heart and the girl eventually realized it was Darnay, but simply a man being killed in Darnay's spot. In the carriage they are getting closer and closer to their destination point, but are very scared of what's going to happen next.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Week 6-A Tale of Two Cities
Mr. Lorry left Lucie, her child and Jerry Cruncher at a hotel/safe quarter for safety. Then Mr. Lorry got a letter from Dr. Manette saying Charles was okay. What's/Who's the Vengeance? Mr. Lorry took Defarge to deliver a note to Lucie from Charles. Why did Madame Defarge have to see Lucie and her daughter and she said that the child was her "business" there? Why was Madame Defarge so cold towards Lucie?
Dr. Manette is popular and trying to get Darnay out of prison but a year and three months have passed and Darnay remained in prison but now Dr. Manette is confident he said.
Dr. Manette told Lucie to go to a certain spot across from the prison so Darnay could see her, but she probably wouldn't be able to see him. She does this for two hours everyday and there's a man working nearby that always watches her and I think when he was talking about chopping off a mans head, then a woman's head, and then a child's head it may be foreshadowing something to come? What was with the dancing? Lucie blew a kiss up to her husband although she couldn't see him. Who was with Mr. Lorry at the end of this chapter, The Wood Sawyer?
Darnay was put to trial and explained why he was in England and not in France for the past so much time. Darnay got help from Dr. Manette and was finally set free! Darnay was then carried back to Lucie.
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher left to go do some work and Lucie thinks she hears something on the stairs and Dr. Manette says "My love, the staircase is as still as Death." I think its foreshadowing death to come or danger to one of the family members or family friend. Darnay is sent back to prison because Defarge and his wife denounced him, with another person who is still unknown.
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher went to get groceries and wine and when they got wine Miss Pross noticed Solomn and screams and he wanted her to not call him by his real name. They went outside to converse and he was still rude to her and wanted her to pretend she doesn't know him from now on otherwise he'll be put to death. He had changed his name to Barsad, the witness at the trial and was a spy. Sydney Carton shows up and wants Barsad to go to the bank with him. They told Mr. Lorry Darnay was arrested again. Then Carton asked who Barsad's friend was and realized it was Cly. After that Barsad went on to explain that Cly had died and he had the papers to prove it, and then showed the papers. Jerry Cruncher, being there, knew Cly was not dead because he was not in his grave the night Cruncher dug it up. Cruncher then got Barsad to admit that Cly faked his funeral and now that Carton knows Barsad is a turnkey at the Conciergie he wants to speak to him alone.
Carton's private talk with Barsad was that if Darnay became ill he will have access to him at once. Carton and Mr. Lorry have a heartfelt conversation after that. Then Mr. Lorry goes to the Manette's house and Carton followed Lucie's path to the prison and talked to the wood sawyer and then went into a shop and bought something . I don't exactly know what he bought but it must not be good because the store owner told him to be careful and not to mix them because of "the consequences of mixing them." Carton walked around almost all night and he illustrated his tenderness in many ways. We know now that the third person to denounce Darnay is Dr. Manette through his letter hidden in the prison. Defarge showed Dr. Manette's hidden letter to the president of the jury. We know Dr. Manette must have wrote something about Darnay's family in it so now Darnay is in real trouble now that Dr. Manette unknowingly helped write a letter that accused him.
Dr. Manette is popular and trying to get Darnay out of prison but a year and three months have passed and Darnay remained in prison but now Dr. Manette is confident he said.
Dr. Manette told Lucie to go to a certain spot across from the prison so Darnay could see her, but she probably wouldn't be able to see him. She does this for two hours everyday and there's a man working nearby that always watches her and I think when he was talking about chopping off a mans head, then a woman's head, and then a child's head it may be foreshadowing something to come? What was with the dancing? Lucie blew a kiss up to her husband although she couldn't see him. Who was with Mr. Lorry at the end of this chapter, The Wood Sawyer?
Darnay was put to trial and explained why he was in England and not in France for the past so much time. Darnay got help from Dr. Manette and was finally set free! Darnay was then carried back to Lucie.
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher left to go do some work and Lucie thinks she hears something on the stairs and Dr. Manette says "My love, the staircase is as still as Death." I think its foreshadowing death to come or danger to one of the family members or family friend. Darnay is sent back to prison because Defarge and his wife denounced him, with another person who is still unknown.
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher went to get groceries and wine and when they got wine Miss Pross noticed Solomn and screams and he wanted her to not call him by his real name. They went outside to converse and he was still rude to her and wanted her to pretend she doesn't know him from now on otherwise he'll be put to death. He had changed his name to Barsad, the witness at the trial and was a spy. Sydney Carton shows up and wants Barsad to go to the bank with him. They told Mr. Lorry Darnay was arrested again. Then Carton asked who Barsad's friend was and realized it was Cly. After that Barsad went on to explain that Cly had died and he had the papers to prove it, and then showed the papers. Jerry Cruncher, being there, knew Cly was not dead because he was not in his grave the night Cruncher dug it up. Cruncher then got Barsad to admit that Cly faked his funeral and now that Carton knows Barsad is a turnkey at the Conciergie he wants to speak to him alone.
Carton's private talk with Barsad was that if Darnay became ill he will have access to him at once. Carton and Mr. Lorry have a heartfelt conversation after that. Then Mr. Lorry goes to the Manette's house and Carton followed Lucie's path to the prison and talked to the wood sawyer and then went into a shop and bought something . I don't exactly know what he bought but it must not be good because the store owner told him to be careful and not to mix them because of "the consequences of mixing them." Carton walked around almost all night and he illustrated his tenderness in many ways. We know now that the third person to denounce Darnay is Dr. Manette through his letter hidden in the prison. Defarge showed Dr. Manette's hidden letter to the president of the jury. We know Dr. Manette must have wrote something about Darnay's family in it so now Darnay is in real trouble now that Dr. Manette unknowingly helped write a letter that accused him.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Week 5- A Tale of Two Cities
They just found out Faulon faked his death and funeral, and caught him, and was now in prison. Then they revolted against him and killed him. They hung him once and the rope broke, they hung him again and the rope broke, they hung him a third time and that time he died. He must not have been meant to die because it took so many tries, also he had a ray of sunshine on him, which showed hope, but didn't end up that way. What is the Vengeance?
The chapter Fire Rises introduces us to how much of a disaster they are in right now. The revolutioners revolted and burned a chateau. The people just watched and one man wanted to put it out and collect the valuables but everyone else refused and simply said "It must burn." I also believe he repeats East, West, North and South because it illustrates that this sort of thing is happening all around them.
Three years later, August 1792, Darnay and Lorry are talking about going to France. Mr. Lorry is going to France and taking Jerry Cruncher with him. There was a letter to Darnay, except it was addressed to his real name that no one knows except Dr. Manette. No one knew the person that the letter was addressed to so Darnay took the letter because he told Mr. Lorry he knew the man. He said he was "going to deliver it" and read it when he got in private and it was a letter from Gabelle pleading for help. Darnay decided to go to France to take his position on by helping Gabelle.
Darnay is trying to get to Paris, but is stopped numerous times. Then the one night he fell asleep, some people awoke and him and he got an escort and left for Paris once more. He arrives in Beauvais and everyone thinks he is an emigrant. Now Darnay is in jail. Don't they know he is their king? Doesn't he make remarks of being their king? His cell reminds me of Dr. Manette's cell.
Mr. Lorry is visited by Dr. Manette and Lucie and they told him that Darnay went to Paris and is now in prison. Mr. Lorry explains to Dr. Manette that they are sharpening their weapons outside the bank to kill the prisoners with. Dr. Manette thinks he is powerful enough and well known that he goes outside and makes himself known so that everyone was on his side, and they all left together to get Darnay out of La Force prison.
The chapter Fire Rises introduces us to how much of a disaster they are in right now. The revolutioners revolted and burned a chateau. The people just watched and one man wanted to put it out and collect the valuables but everyone else refused and simply said "It must burn." I also believe he repeats East, West, North and South because it illustrates that this sort of thing is happening all around them.
Three years later, August 1792, Darnay and Lorry are talking about going to France. Mr. Lorry is going to France and taking Jerry Cruncher with him. There was a letter to Darnay, except it was addressed to his real name that no one knows except Dr. Manette. No one knew the person that the letter was addressed to so Darnay took the letter because he told Mr. Lorry he knew the man. He said he was "going to deliver it" and read it when he got in private and it was a letter from Gabelle pleading for help. Darnay decided to go to France to take his position on by helping Gabelle.
Darnay is trying to get to Paris, but is stopped numerous times. Then the one night he fell asleep, some people awoke and him and he got an escort and left for Paris once more. He arrives in Beauvais and everyone thinks he is an emigrant. Now Darnay is in jail. Don't they know he is their king? Doesn't he make remarks of being their king? His cell reminds me of Dr. Manette's cell.
Mr. Lorry is visited by Dr. Manette and Lucie and they told him that Darnay went to Paris and is now in prison. Mr. Lorry explains to Dr. Manette that they are sharpening their weapons outside the bank to kill the prisoners with. Dr. Manette thinks he is powerful enough and well known that he goes outside and makes himself known so that everyone was on his side, and they all left together to get Darnay out of La Force prison.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Week 4-A Tale of Two Cities
I'm still uncertain about the man hanging over the fountain and what it's supposed to represent? Then Madame Defarge and Monsieur Defarge went somewhere? and now Madame Defarge is going to register John Barsad into the secret "club" of the Jacques. Defarge and Madame Defarge are speaking and Madame Defarge says "It does not take a long time, far an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?" Which this statement parallels the destruction from the Revolution that took a long, careful amount of time to prepare. The tying of the knot is her knotting his brain and when she hits the change on the counter it was like her crushing his brain in with her ideas, then she picks up the handkerchief and puts it under her arm like she has control, and they go to bed. The flies dying in the wine is like the people dying in the Revolution in drowning bloodshed. They were in the wineshop and there was a spy that knew about the secret signal of Jacques. John Barsad was also there. Also, when the women knit, it distracts them from their hunger and their thoughts that are continuously running. They are knitting and watching the world go on.
Why was chapter 17, One Night, significant? Just showing how much they care for one another?
On the wedding day Darnay and Dr. Manette talked in the Doctor's room and Darnay came out and his face was white. They got married. Then Lucie and Darnay left and that night the Doctor was found making shoes, which shows us he's lost without Lucie or is suffering from something else. He also is acting like he did back in prison, he has no idea about anything. Mr. Lorry is now going to take care and watch the Doctor at this troubling time. After 9 days he finally snapped out of his unconscious state. We know Darnay told him his two secrets he promised to tell the Doctor so maybe that's what provoked him to do this?
Dr. Manette "came back" from his relapse and Mr. Lorry is telling him what's happened. I think he went into this relapse because of what Darnay told him on their wedding day. Dr. Mannette thinks it shouldn't happen again and Mr. Lorry was concerned for him. Lorry wants the Doctor to get rid of all his shoe making tools and the Doctor doesn't want to because losing that is like losing a child. He then gave into Lorry because Lorry said he should do it for Lucie and Darnay. Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry chopped up his woodworking bench and burned it in the kitchen fire and buried the tools, shoes, and leather in the garden, and they felt like they were doing a horrible crime, which could be if Dr. Manette needs it as a clutch.
When the newly married couple came home Carton was the first one there to congratulate them. Then Carton and Darnay had a conversation and I have no idea what went on there, I know that Carton was granted, by Darnay, to come over uninvited. Then Darnay is kind of rude about Carton and Lucie tells him that Carton deserves more consideration and respect than Darnay had expressed for him.
Lucie had children and it was now 1789 and Mr. Lorry, Dr. Manette, Lucie, and Darnay were sitting and listening because now the time and people are busy and nervous for some reason. People are starting to have all the weapons they can, and you can tell it's going to be chaos. The Jacques are about to attack! Defarge was leading them all and they want to find out what is significant about the room One Hundred and Five, North Tower. They went to the tower and found A.M. on the wall, for Alexander Manette. They are in search of something specific. Did Defarge get killed? Seven prisoners were released. Then it said, "Now, Heaven defeat the fancy of Lucie Darnay, and keep these feet far out of her life!" What does this mean?
Why was chapter 17, One Night, significant? Just showing how much they care for one another?
On the wedding day Darnay and Dr. Manette talked in the Doctor's room and Darnay came out and his face was white. They got married. Then Lucie and Darnay left and that night the Doctor was found making shoes, which shows us he's lost without Lucie or is suffering from something else. He also is acting like he did back in prison, he has no idea about anything. Mr. Lorry is now going to take care and watch the Doctor at this troubling time. After 9 days he finally snapped out of his unconscious state. We know Darnay told him his two secrets he promised to tell the Doctor so maybe that's what provoked him to do this?
Dr. Manette "came back" from his relapse and Mr. Lorry is telling him what's happened. I think he went into this relapse because of what Darnay told him on their wedding day. Dr. Mannette thinks it shouldn't happen again and Mr. Lorry was concerned for him. Lorry wants the Doctor to get rid of all his shoe making tools and the Doctor doesn't want to because losing that is like losing a child. He then gave into Lorry because Lorry said he should do it for Lucie and Darnay. Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry chopped up his woodworking bench and burned it in the kitchen fire and buried the tools, shoes, and leather in the garden, and they felt like they were doing a horrible crime, which could be if Dr. Manette needs it as a clutch.
When the newly married couple came home Carton was the first one there to congratulate them. Then Carton and Darnay had a conversation and I have no idea what went on there, I know that Carton was granted, by Darnay, to come over uninvited. Then Darnay is kind of rude about Carton and Lucie tells him that Carton deserves more consideration and respect than Darnay had expressed for him.
Lucie had children and it was now 1789 and Mr. Lorry, Dr. Manette, Lucie, and Darnay were sitting and listening because now the time and people are busy and nervous for some reason. People are starting to have all the weapons they can, and you can tell it's going to be chaos. The Jacques are about to attack! Defarge was leading them all and they want to find out what is significant about the room One Hundred and Five, North Tower. They went to the tower and found A.M. on the wall, for Alexander Manette. They are in search of something specific. Did Defarge get killed? Seven prisoners were released. Then it said, "Now, Heaven defeat the fancy of Lucie Darnay, and keep these feet far out of her life!" What does this mean?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Week 3, A Tale of Two Cities
Darnay is now a tutor, which is a professor for us, and has become very popular because even the Princes and Kings were not as well knowledgeable as he. He also never let any of this go to his head. He loves Lucie but hasn't told her yet. Darnay tells Dr. Manette he loves Lucie, but why does Dr. Manette cry when Darnay says "You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for you"? Dr. Manette approves of Darnay and Darnay promised that if he were to win Lucie's love he would tell the Doctor his real name and why he was in England on the morning of their wedding day. When Lucie got home her father must have been remembering his jail time again for Lucie had to pace the room with her father once again.
Stryver and Sydney are talking and Stryver is being arrogant and saying he is pretty much better than Sydney. Stryver wants to marry Lucie. Stryver is telling Sydney how Sydney hardly has any money which is ironic because Stryver wouldn't have any money if it weren't for Syndney.
Stryver wants to tell Lucie of his love for her before he goes on vacation....where and why the vacation? Stryver is going to Lucie to tell her, but first he stops at the bank to see Mr. Lorry and tells him that he is going to ask Lucie to marry him. I don't much understand what Mr. Lorry is trying to tell Stryver, but what I get of it, is that it means Mr. Lorry doesn't think Stryver is good enough for her? What does Stryver mean when he says, "And now my way out of this, is, to put you all in the wrong."? It shows Stryver really doesn't love Lucie because he forgets about Lorry helping him out. Stryver is informed not to ask her from Lorry because she must not have been interested, which he seemed to take well until Lorry left and he was "winking at the ceiling" making me think his "love" for her is not over that easily.
Carton still loves Luce and drops by and talks to her and starts crying. He says "I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse." This shows us that he is depressed and maybe wants her to feel bad for him. He tells her he loves her but to keep it a secret from everyone, even her father and she respects his wishes. He also tells her he would do anything for her or her family.
Jerry Cruncher watches the crowd and notices that there was a funeral passing by and his son gets excited and Jerry gets mad at him for it, so we know he has to do something when someone dies. The person who has died was Roger Cly, said to be a spy. After the funeral does the mob go tear stuff down? I don't understand the paragraph on page 146 beginning with "And mind you..." and ending with "you know." Cruncher than goes out in the night by himself with young Jerry following secretly. Cruncher picked up two other guys and then jumped over a gate with young Jerry still following. Young Jerry saw that the "fishing" they were doing, was digging up a grave and got scared and ran home. Mrs. Cruncher must have done something to Jerry Cruncher because he was yelling at her and almost physically hurting her. Everything he tells her is ironic because he's the unholy one. The next day young Jerry tells his father he wants to be a Resurrection-Man...which is the job title of what Mr. Cruncher does.
So the man Defarge met after there was a chain/person dragging from his carriage is in the "secret club"? Jacques and Defarge enter the wine shop and it gets silent and after Defarge comments on the mender of the roads being named Jacques, three men continuously got up and left. Then Defarge took the mender of the roads to his "room" which is where the three Jacques who left the wineshop went for a meeting. Who was the man who had the chain and man dragging from his carriage? I don't understand the whole prisoner story that the mender of the roads was telling. When they went to see the king and queen, what did Madame Defarge mean at the end of this section of reading? Also, what does the knitting symbolize?
Stryver and Sydney are talking and Stryver is being arrogant and saying he is pretty much better than Sydney. Stryver wants to marry Lucie. Stryver is telling Sydney how Sydney hardly has any money which is ironic because Stryver wouldn't have any money if it weren't for Syndney.
Stryver wants to tell Lucie of his love for her before he goes on vacation....where and why the vacation? Stryver is going to Lucie to tell her, but first he stops at the bank to see Mr. Lorry and tells him that he is going to ask Lucie to marry him. I don't much understand what Mr. Lorry is trying to tell Stryver, but what I get of it, is that it means Mr. Lorry doesn't think Stryver is good enough for her? What does Stryver mean when he says, "And now my way out of this, is, to put you all in the wrong."? It shows Stryver really doesn't love Lucie because he forgets about Lorry helping him out. Stryver is informed not to ask her from Lorry because she must not have been interested, which he seemed to take well until Lorry left and he was "winking at the ceiling" making me think his "love" for her is not over that easily.
Carton still loves Luce and drops by and talks to her and starts crying. He says "I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse." This shows us that he is depressed and maybe wants her to feel bad for him. He tells her he loves her but to keep it a secret from everyone, even her father and she respects his wishes. He also tells her he would do anything for her or her family.
Jerry Cruncher watches the crowd and notices that there was a funeral passing by and his son gets excited and Jerry gets mad at him for it, so we know he has to do something when someone dies. The person who has died was Roger Cly, said to be a spy. After the funeral does the mob go tear stuff down? I don't understand the paragraph on page 146 beginning with "And mind you..." and ending with "you know." Cruncher than goes out in the night by himself with young Jerry following secretly. Cruncher picked up two other guys and then jumped over a gate with young Jerry still following. Young Jerry saw that the "fishing" they were doing, was digging up a grave and got scared and ran home. Mrs. Cruncher must have done something to Jerry Cruncher because he was yelling at her and almost physically hurting her. Everything he tells her is ironic because he's the unholy one. The next day young Jerry tells his father he wants to be a Resurrection-Man...which is the job title of what Mr. Cruncher does.
So the man Defarge met after there was a chain/person dragging from his carriage is in the "secret club"? Jacques and Defarge enter the wine shop and it gets silent and after Defarge comments on the mender of the roads being named Jacques, three men continuously got up and left. Then Defarge took the mender of the roads to his "room" which is where the three Jacques who left the wineshop went for a meeting. Who was the man who had the chain and man dragging from his carriage? I don't understand the whole prisoner story that the mender of the roads was telling. When they went to see the king and queen, what did Madame Defarge mean at the end of this section of reading? Also, what does the knitting symbolize?
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Week 2- A Tale of Two Cities
Mr. Manette is now, once again, practicing his doctor career. This chapter begins with a happy setting. What is significant with the gold giants that are continuously mentioned? Miss Porss is the lady who looked after Lucie while her father was "gone" and now Miss Pross is sort of jealous that Lucie spends all her time and devotion to her father. Miss Pross worships Lucie pretty much and she says "never imagined anything. Have no imagination at all." This illustrates how absorbed into other peoples lives she is and not her own. Dr. Manette isn't over his prison time because he still walks at night sometimes, which makes me wonder if he really did do something wrong? Dr.Manette paces up and down his room, just as he did when he was locked up, and his mind is wandering. Miss Pross is also reserved, and example of her being reserved is her eating by herself in her room except on Tuesdays.
Darnay come to see them and mentions that in the Tower there was DIG written on one wall in the corner. So possibly Dr. Manette has hidden something? What's with all the references to the "Golden Giant"?
Monseigneur is a higher class man, I can tell this because it takes four people to feed him chocolate, which is so ridiculous it offers us comic relief in the story. Then Monsieur's carriage ran over a boy. he then blames it on the common people because they should have been "taking care of themselves and their children." Then he gave them a gold coin to make it all better. This shows how the rich believe that money can make anything better. He then speaks to Defarge and gives him a gold coin but Defarge threw the coin back in his carriage. When Monsieur ran over the kid the common people couldn't do anything about it because all the high class people are on his side.
The chapter with Monseigneur in the country was confusing because they switch from Monseigneur to Monsieur. When the carriage was on top of the hill, someone was watching and when the carriage got to town they saw the man again and Monsieur got offensive because he must have done something wrong because there was a chain dragging behind his carriage.
Darnay arrived at Monseigneur's and we find out Darnay is Monseigneur's nephew and Monseigneur is Darnay's fathers twin brother. We can infer that Monseigneur killed his twin brother because he wanted all the fortune. Darnay has came back to Monseigneur to keep his promise he has made to his mother, that he will kill Monseigneur and he did just that with a knife and he left a note that says "Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jaques."
Darnay come to see them and mentions that in the Tower there was DIG written on one wall in the corner. So possibly Dr. Manette has hidden something? What's with all the references to the "Golden Giant"?
Monseigneur is a higher class man, I can tell this because it takes four people to feed him chocolate, which is so ridiculous it offers us comic relief in the story. Then Monsieur's carriage ran over a boy. he then blames it on the common people because they should have been "taking care of themselves and their children." Then he gave them a gold coin to make it all better. This shows how the rich believe that money can make anything better. He then speaks to Defarge and gives him a gold coin but Defarge threw the coin back in his carriage. When Monsieur ran over the kid the common people couldn't do anything about it because all the high class people are on his side.
The chapter with Monseigneur in the country was confusing because they switch from Monseigneur to Monsieur. When the carriage was on top of the hill, someone was watching and when the carriage got to town they saw the man again and Monsieur got offensive because he must have done something wrong because there was a chain dragging behind his carriage.
Darnay arrived at Monseigneur's and we find out Darnay is Monseigneur's nephew and Monseigneur is Darnay's fathers twin brother. We can infer that Monseigneur killed his twin brother because he wanted all the fortune. Darnay has came back to Monseigneur to keep his promise he has made to his mother, that he will kill Monseigneur and he did just that with a knife and he left a note that says "Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jaques."
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