Tale Of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, was a novel written in 1858 about life in England and France at the time of the French Revolution. The story begins in 1775 when Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly imprisoned doctor, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Dr. Manette's daughter who thought that he was dead, went with Mr. Lorry. They arrived at Defarge's wine shop in Paris, where they found Mr. Manette. He was making shoes and appeared to be mentally ill. They took him back to London with them. In 1780, five years later, Lucie, Mr. Lorry and Dr. Manette went to court to testify against Charles Darnay. Darnay was a tutor at many schools including Cambridge and frequently traveled from England to France. These trips were suspicious and so he was being charged with treason. No one thought he would be found not guilty. Things looked especially bad for Darnay when an eyewitness testified but the eyewitness could not tell Darnay apart from Sydney Carton, a lawyer who looked like him, so Darnay was released. Darnay was a very good and moral man and befriended Lucie and her father and married Lucie. Carton was in love with Lucie but he was an alcoholic and knew tha
In 1792, Darnay got a letter from Monsieur Gabelle, a family friend. Gabelle asked Darnay to come to France to help him. Darnay left without telling Lucie and as soon as he got to France he was put into jail. Lucie and Dr. Manette went to France and Dr. Manette appealed to the crowd to try to get Darnay released. He was viewed as a hero in the crowd’s eyes because he was a survivor from Bastille. Darnay was released after a year, yet he was re-jailed the same day by Madame Defarge because his family had previously murdered her sister and brother and father. Darnay went to court the next day and sentenced to a gruesome death. Carton arrived in Paris to try to help and overheard Madame Defarge talking about how she would have Dr. Manette and Lucie killed also. He went to the prison and blackmailed a spy to get inside. Once inside he switched clothes with Darnay then asked him to write a letter. He used chemical powders to make Darnay fall asleep then had him carried out. Since they looked alike, everyone thought Darnay was Carton. Miss Pross, Lucie’s nanny, killed Madame Defarge and escaped with the rest of the family. Carton had arranged for Lucie, Darnay, and Dr. Manette to be able to cross the border of France and go on to safety in England. Carton sacrificed his life for Lucie, her father, and Darnay at the guillotine. He went from being a slacker, to being the story’s hero. When I first read this book I thoug
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