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."