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?