Why does Jerry Cruncher think his wife is praying against him and his son? The book also mentions that when Jerry goes to bed his boots are clean, but when he wakes up, they are muddy and since he gets so offensive about his wife praying, we know that he is doing something that he doesn't want his wife to know about because he is ashamed of it. He also has rust on his hands that didn't come from his normal day job and his son questions "Al-ways rusty! Where does my father get all that iron rust from? He don't get no iron rust here!" I think he is digging up graves or something because also, earlier, he says that if someone told him the message "Recalled to Life" he would be in trouble.
You can tell they are very brutal by the sentence they gave the criminal-half hang him then "sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off." I don't understand chapter 2 except for he's at a trial. What's with the herbs, mirror? Manette and his daughter are there and they are witnesses against the prisoner.
What is chapter 4 talking about at the beginning? Someone was watching them talk, but why? Darnay is the person found innocent. When Carton and Darnay were at supper Carton flung his glass over his shoulder against the wall and it shattered...just as something else metaphorically has shattered, such as him giving up his crush on Lucie since Lucie likes Darnay? Carton says "Don't let your sober face elate you." This line seems important...maybe for later in the book? Carton is not very friendly because he says he doesn't care for anyone and no one cares for him. He is a jealous, low self esteemed man. When Darnay leaves Carton confesses to himself that he hates Darnay and is envious of him because Lucie Manette looked at Darnay with a sympathetic face.
We also learn Carton works for Stryver and does all his work to make Stryver look good when in reality it is Carton doing all the work. Why does Stryver call Carton Memory? Why is Carton refered to as a jackal and Stryver as a lion? Carton seems depressed, ashamed of himself. Then Carton denies Lucie Manette's beauty. Also, the scene at the end of the chapter is a cold, deserted area. Then it said "Sadly, sadly the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight..."(pg 82). Also at the end there is a repetition of the "s" sound to soothe the reader also.
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I believe that Carton is refered to as a jackal because a jackal scavenges or hunts in a pack, while Stryver is a lion because the male lion in a pride doesn't do the hunting, but allows the lionesses to do it for him. Carton does all of Stryver's hunting, or work, and scavenges for attention almost...and I believe that is the reference.
I believer he thinks that when she is praying againts him it is giving him bad luck. And the part where the boots are clean and then they are dirty, i think is telling us that he is definatly up to something that he doesnt want anybody else to know about.
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