Thursday, December 5, 2013
A Tale of Two Cities Notes
The city is full of violence an Lucie goes to Mr. Lorry that Charles is in the Paris prison. There's a huge mob in the courtyard. Dr. Manette was a former inmate of the Bastille. Dr. Manette see's Monsieur Defarge and Defarge delievered a letter to Mr. Lorry from the doctor that says that Darnay is safe. Lorry takes Defarge and The Vengeance to see Lucie. Lucie reads the letter and begs to help Darnay. Dafarge rejects the help. The shadow of the manner troubled Mr. Lorry. Dr. Manette didn't return after four days of being away in prison. Lucie was apart from France and she was defenceless of prisoners of both sexes all ages were killed. Of those four nights prisoners and political prisoners were dragged out of the crowd and killed. Mr. Lorry tries to influence the court tribunal that his son in law should be free. He remembers the events that occurred when prisoners were attacked and all the cheering that went on. Darnay is in prison for a year a three months while the doctor is starting to get well known in Paris and becomes a physician for three other prisons. A year and three months later. The story starts off Darnay was in prison Lucie would visit him hoping to see her husband Charles. There was a spot where Lucie would stay to be seen by Charles and she was able to see a woodcutter's house. The owner would tease Lucie by pretending to saw off her daughter's head. She pays him off the stop all the tormenting. One day there was a mob down the street and they surround Lucie. Madame Defarge greets them and the doctor tells Lucie that Darnay's trial was the next day. The morning of Charle's trial there are five judges at the bench. The audience is packed with so many people. There is a woman sitting in the front row knitting. Doctor Manetter sits right beneath the President of the Tribunal. Charles' is an emigrant and all emigrants are sentences to death. The whole crowd in the hall agreed and they immediately call his death. Charles testifies that he's been living in England and has a woman and money there. He's asked if Lucie is his wife the daughter of the doctor and the whole crowd is astonished. Charles chose to be in France because he felt he moral obligation to return to claim his land. He just wanted to save the citizens life. When Dr. Manette is asked to testify he states that he was in trial in England for being a foe and a friend of the U.S. He's now seen as a god person. He's declared as not guilty. Although Charles is now out of prison Lucie remais fearful for his safety. Miss Pross shops with Jerry and soon afterward four men are the the apartment and they inform that Charles is a prisoner again based on was Monsieur and Madame Defarge's accusations. Charles is forced another trial. One day Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher go into a wine shop and Miss Pross sees her brother Solomon and he escorts her outside and take her home. Carton and Barsad emerge from the other room, and Barsad and Jerry leave. Carton tells Mr. Lorry that the best he can do is to secure access to Darnay in his cell. Mr. Lorry begins to weep as the implications of Darnay's second arrest sink in. Moved by Mr. Lorry's tears, Carton tells him in a sincere tone that he regards him as a father-figure who has led a good and useful life, and that people will mourn Mr. Lorry and remember him when he dies. Carton adds that a long life wasted would be a miserable one. When Mr. Lorry leaves Tellson's to comfort Lucie and her father, Carton walks the streets all night with the biblical passage, "I am the resurrection and the life,"echoing in his mind. At one point, he drops in at a chemist's shop to make a purchase.
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