Sunday, 19 October 2008

Tale of Two Cities Second Entry

So, this is my second post and I'll mainly be focusing on chapters five and six just because it's the end of book 1 of the Tale of Two Cities and I prefer keeping my readings cut clean, and so here's the ending for the Book 1: Recalled to Life...
A little review on what had happened in the last chapter was that a girl named Lucie Manette and a businessman/banker named Jarvis Lorry meet in Dover,England. The two were off to find Lucie's long lost father in Paris and that is how chapter four ended. Now moving on, we can see that they have made it to Paris in chapter five and that Paris is not a happy place. Judging by the gruesome descriptions that the author gives us, such as the scene of the wine cask falling and the people going and drinking the wine that has spilled on the pave stones. It turns out the destination of the two characters is this building where the wine cask had been thrown out from, and is owned by a man named Monsieur Defarge. Then Monsieur Defarge after several moments later, Defarge takes the two up a disgusting landing where they see a white-haired man busily making shoes. (Guess who ^_-;;) This is the end of chapter five.
Continuing on to Chapter six, it shows Manette (the shoemaker shown in chapter five) and Lucie interacting. Here it also gives us a flashback on Manette, before he got imprisoned into the situation he is shown in and that he had kept a few stray hairs of his wife to keep himself free "spiritually". Lucie also gives a very passionate (forgive me on word choice ^^;;) speech on how Manette should relieve himself of the burdens reality by crying if needed and the indication of a warm home that awaited him. Lucie then suggests that Manette should be taken home immediately but Lorry thinks otherwise for Manette's health. Lucie then argues with him that for Manette's health they should go right back to England and Defarge agrees and puts them into a coach.

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