Characters
"You'd be in a blazing bad way...if Recalled to Life came into fashion" said this character
Who is Jerry Cruncher?
This place is described as having "a steaming mist in all the hollows...a clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do"
What is the Dover Mail?
This is the year that the story begins
What is 1775?
"He was on his way to dig someone out of a grave" refers to this person and this task
Mr. Lorry, who must retrieve a damaged Dr. Manette
OR
Jerry Cruncher during his "fishing"
This scene chapter 5 best indicates the development of the motif "blood, wine, and the color red"
What is the wine cask breaking open and people drinking it off of the street?
OR
What is a peasant writing the word "BLOOD" on the wall with wine?
"A gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suite of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept...very orderly he looked, with a hand on each knee..." (14) physically describes this character
This place is described as a "desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about... It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly”
What is Dover Beach?
Mr. Lorry's task at Dover (2 things)
What is meet Lucie Manette and tell her that her father is alive (not dead as all presumed)?
This is Dr. Manette's "occupation"
What is a shoemaker?
All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand. Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures—the creatures of this chronicle among the rest—along the roads that lay before them.
This, the last paragraph of chapter 1, relates to this theme:
What is fate vs. free will?
This person has wild red hair and impressive strength, according to Mr. Lorry
Who is Miss Pross?
"There was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness. There was a special companionship in it...which led...to frolicsome embraces" refers to this activity
"What now? Are you a subject for the mad hospital?" say Monsieur Defarge to a man named Gaspard, who has just written this word on the wall
what is "BLOOD"?
This is how Dr. Manette identifies himself
What is "One Hundred Five, North Tower"?
Mr. Lorry's attempt to be all business and his failure to do so represents this theme
What is appearance vs. reality?
Described as "bull-necked" but also repeatedly described with the adjective "good"
Who is Monseiur Defarge?
"He laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, and it contained a very little quantity of" THIS
What is Lucie Manette's mother's hair?
What is at the top of the stairs, in front of the garrett?
This information Lorry is shocked to learn, as he climbs the stairs with Defarge and Lucie to the garret (guess 1 of the 2 conditions)
1. What is that Dr. Manette says lone in the garret?
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2. What is that the door is kept locked at all times?
This motif is developed especially when we first meet Dr. Manette, and when he and Lucie first meet
What is Light vs. Darkness?
This person witnesses the departure of Dr. Manette, Lucie, and Mr. Lorry, yet sees "nothing"
Who is Madame Defarge?
"The hearts of the passengers beat loud enough perhaps to be heard; but at any rate, the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath, and holding the breath, and having the pulses quickened by expectation" are how characters react to this situation
What is hearing Jerry approach on the Dover Mail?
This is the significance of describing Lorry's dream in chapter 3 of book 1
What is "to foreshadow meeting Dr. Manette?"
Lucie is afraid that she will see this, not her father, when she meets him
What is "his ghost?"
"The children had ancient faces and grave voices...and upon them...was the sign, Hunger...Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines...Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat."
This quotation best illustrates this developing them
What is environment as a reflection of society?