- Post quotations from last night- 1-4 with MLA format "(281).
- Read Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (257-94).
- Post important quotations that focus on either a :
- Symbol- represents something beyond itself
-Forshadowing- hints or clues
-Theme- insight into life
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Ch.4
“It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. It was taken to pieces, like a toy-puzzle for a young devil, and was put together again when the occasion wanted it (261).”
Ch.5
“In all weathers, Lucie passed two hours of every day at this place; and everyday on leaving it, she kissed the prison wall. Her husband saw her, it might be twice or thrice running: it might be, not foe a week or a fortnight together (265).”
Ch.6
“Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain of Death. I was nothing that the decree bore date since his return to France. There he was, and there was the decree; he had been taken in France, and his head was demanded (271).”
Ch.7
“If the Republic demands sacrifices from you, without doubt you as a good patriot will be happy to make them. The Republic goes before all. The People is supreme. Evrémonde, we are presses (280).”
Ch.8
“So far, we have spoken before these two, because it was as well that the merits of the cards should not rest solely between you and me. Come into the dark room here, and let us have one final word alone (294).”
Summary: Chapter 1: In Secret
“Five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half (244).”
Summary: Chapter 2: The Grindstone
“Help for the Bastille prisoner's kindred in La Force (250)!”
Summary: Chapter 3: The Shadow
“Judge you! Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now (256)?”
Summary: Chapter 4: Calm in Storm
“There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement in time…(260).”
Chapter 8-“Monsignor the good god knows; but I don’t ask it. My petition is, that a morsel of stone or wood, with my husband’s name placed over him (106).”
Chapter 9-“I doubt, sir, returned the nephew, whether, if it had carried me to the utmost brink of death, you would have cared to stop me there.”
Chapter 10-“It is hard for me to speak of her, at any time. It is very hard for me to hear her spoken of in the that tone of yours, Charles Darnay (120).”
Chapter 11-“Now, look here! I am going to tell you something that will rather surprise you, and perhaps will make you think me not quite as shrewd as you usually do think me. I intend to marry (127).
Chapter 1
“Five paces by four and a half, five paces by four and a half five paces by four and a half. The prisoner walked to and fro in his cell, counting its measurements, and roar if the city arose like muffled drums with a wild swell of voices 244.”
Chapter 2
“The grindstone had a double handle, and, turning at it madly were two men, whose faces, as long as their hair flapped back when the whirlings if the grindstone brought their faces up, were more horrible and cruel than the visages of the wildest savages in their most barbarous disguise 249.”
Chapter 3
“Madame Deferage looked, as coldly has ever, at the suppliant, and said, turning to her friend The Vengeance: ‘the wives and mothers we have been nothing but used to see have not been greatly considered? We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept form them, often enough 256?”
Chapter 4
“There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none. Hold of it was lost in the raging gever of a nation, as it is in the fever of one patient 260.”
Chapter 5
“In all weathers, Lucie passed two hours of every day at this place; and everyday on leaving it, she kissed the prison wall. Her husband saw her, it might be twice or thrice running: it might be, not foe a week or a fortnight together265.”
Chapter 6
“He has a happy in the return he has made her, he was recompensed for his suffering, he was proud of his strength. You must not be weak my darling he remonstrated; don’t tremble so. I have saved him.
Chapter 7
“I have saved him. It was not another of the dreams in which he has often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled , and a vague and heavy fear was upon her 276.”
Chapter 8
“So far, we have spoken before these two, because it was as well that the merits of the cards should not rest solely between you and me. Come into the dark room here, and let us have one final word alone 294.”
CH. 5.
“No fight could have been half as terrible as this dance. It was so emphatically a fallen sport--a something, once innocent, delivered over to all devilry--a healthy pastime changed into a means of angering the blood, bewildering the senses, and steeling the heart. Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing how warped (267)."
Ch. 6
"In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease-- a terrible passing inclination to die of it. And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them and perverted all things good by nature were become” (273)."
Ch. 7
"Is there' - it was Miss Pross's way to affect to make light of anything that was a great anxiety with them all, and to come at it in this chance manner - (278)."
Ch. 8
"In short," said Sydney, "this is a desperate time, when desperate games are played for desperate stakes (288)."
Chapter 1:
“But when they came to the town of Beauvais an ominous crowd gathered to see him dismount at the posting-yard, and many voices called out loudly, ‘Down with the emigrant!’ (235).”
Chapter 2:
“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the court-yard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away (251).”
Chapter 3:
“The wives and mothers we have been used to see, since we were as little as this child, and much less, have not been greatly considered? We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough (256)?”
Chapter 4:
“So much more wicked and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the violently drowned by the night, and prisoners were shot in lines and squares under the southern wintry sun (262).”
Chapter 5:
“I am not frightened for myself, my father. But when I think of my husband, and the mercies of these people- (267).”
Chapter 6:
“Take off his head!’ cried the audience. ‘An enemy to the Republic! (271)”
Chapter 7:
“Oh father, father. What can this be! Hide Charles. Save him! (279).”
Chapter 8:
“So far, we have spoken before these two, because it was as well that the merits of the cards should not rest solely between you and me. Come into the dark room here, and let us have one final word alone (294).”
Chapter 4- " It all tended to a good end my friend. It was not mere waste and ruin. As my beloved child was helpful in restoring me to myself, I will be helpful now in restoring the dearest part of herself to her;by the aid of Heaven, I will do it(259)!"
Chapter 5- 'Lovely girls: bright women, brown,black, and grey haired; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born, and peasent born; all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cellars of the loathsome prisons and carried to her through the street to slake her devouring thirst(262)."
Chapter 6- " Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold(269)."
Chapter 7- "Ha!" said Miss Pross, "It doesn't need an interpreter to expain the meaning of these creatures. They have but only one, and it's Midnight Murder and Mischeif(278)."
Chapter 8- "In as good stead tomorrow as today. But it may not be so. This is a desperate timewhen desperate games are played for desperate stakes (288)."
Chapter 4
"...eleven hundred defenseless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace, that four days had been darkened by the deed of horror (257)."
Chapter 5
"I call it my little guillotine (265)."
Chapter 6
"Every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold (269)."
Chapter 7
"But he is denounced gravely-by the citizen and citizeness Defarge (281)."
Chapter 8
"Don't call me Solomon. Do you want to be the death of me (282)?"
Chapter 4: "It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. It was taken to pieces, like a toy-puzzle for a young devil, and was put together again when the occasion wanted it (261)."
Chapter 5: "all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cellars of the loathsome prisons, and carried to her through the street to slake her devouring thirst"(262)
Chapter 6: "Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage." (273)
Chapter 7: "'I thought, my father, said Lucie, excusing herself, with a pale face and in a faltering voice, 'that I heard strange feet upon the stairs."(279)
Chapter 8: "In as good stead tomorrow as today. But it may not be so. This is a desperate time when desperate games are played for desperate stakes."(288)
Chapter 4:
"There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time(page 260)".
Chapter 5:
"Liberty, Equality, Fratnity, or Death!(page 266)".
Chapter 6:
"He knew very well that the very same people, carried by a different current, would have rushed at him with the very same intensity, to rend him to pieces and stew him over the streets(page 274)".
Chapter 7:
"He was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her(page 276)".
Chapter 4
“It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red (261).”
Chapter 5
“In all weathers, Lucie passed two hours of every day at this place; and everyday on leaving it, she kissed the prison wall(265)."
Chapter 6
"You must not be weak, my darling," he remonstrated; "don't tremble so. I have saved him (276)."
Chapter 7
"I seek him. We seek him. I know you, Evremonde; I saw you before the Tribunal today. You are again the prisoner of the Republic (279)."
Chapter 8
"That had the makings in him of one of the best and greatest of men in his native country, and official among foreigners, and such foreigners (283)."
chapter 1
"a man in good clothes should be going to prison, was no more remarkable than a labourer in working clothes should be going to work (240-241)."
chapter 2
"The grind stone stood alone there, in calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away (251)."
chapter 3
"We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough (256)?"
Chapter 4
"There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time (260)."
Chapter 5
"No fight could have been as terrible as this dance (267)."
chapter 6
"more than once he mis-doubted his mind being in confusion, and that he was in the tumbril on his way to the Guillotine (275)."
chapter 7
"My Child,' said the Doctor, rising, and laying his hand upon her shoulder,'I have save him...You are again a prisoner of the Republic (279)."
chapter 8
" Look over your hand carefully, Mr Barsad. Take time (289)."
Chapter 4:
"There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time(page 260)".
Chapter 5:
"Liberty, Equality, Fratnity, or Death!(page 266)".
Chapter 6:
"He knew very well that the very same people, carried by a different current, would have rushed at him with the very same intensity, to rend him to pieces and stew him over the streets(page 274)".
Chapter 7:
"He was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her(page 276)".
Chapter 8:
"This is a desperate time, when desperate games are played for desperate stakes. Llet the doctor play the winning game; I will play the losing one(page 288)".
Chapter 4: “As my beloved child was helpful in restoring me to myself, I will be helpful now in restoring the dearest part of herself to her; by the aid of Heaven I will do it (259)!”
Chapter 5: “Ah! But it’s not my business. My work is my business. See my saw! I call it my Little Guillotine La, la, la; La, la, la! And off his head comes (265)!”
Chapter 6: “And bow speak to your father, dearest. No other man in all of France could have done what he has done for me (275)”
Chapter 7: “If the Republic demands sacrifices from you, without doubt you as a good patriot will be happy to make them. The Republic goes before all (280)”
Chapter 8: “So far, we have spoken before these two, because it was as well that the merits of the cards should not rest solely between you and me. Come into the dark room here, and let us have one final word alone (294).”
Chapter 1: “Now I am left, as if I were dead. And here in these crawling creatures is the first condition of the body after death (244).”
Chapter 2: “Live the Bastille prisoner! Help for the Bastille prisoner’s kindred in La Force! Save the prisoner Evremonde at La Force (250)!”
Chapter 3: “ Judge you! Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now? (256).”
Chapter 4: “Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world – the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine (261).”
Chapter 5: “I call myself Samson the firewood guillotine. See here again! And off her head comes! Now, a child. And off its head comes. All the family!” (265).
Chapter 6: “No sooner was the acquittal pronounced, than tears were shed as freely as blood at another time” (273).
Chapter 7: “And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her” (276).
Chapter 8: “Come into the dark room here, and let us have one final word alone” (294).
Ch 4
“The new era began; the king was tired, doomed, and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms; the black flag waved night and day from the great towers of Notre Dame (260)…”
Ch 5
“I call myself the Samson of the firewood guillotine. See her again! And off her head comes! Now, a child. And off its head comes. All the family (265)!”
Ch 6
“So capriciously were the people moved, that tears immediately rolled down several ferocious countenances which had been glaring at the prisoner a moment before, as if with impatience to pluck him out into the streets and kill him (272).”
Ch 7
“Is there’ - it was Miss Pross's way to affect to make light of anything that was a great anxiety with them all, and to come at it in this chance manner – ‘is there any prospect yet, of our getting out of this place (278)?”
Ch 8
“If you expect me to be surprised,’ said her brother Solomon, ‘I am not surprised; I knew that you were here; I know most of the people that are here. If you really don’t want to endanger my existence – which I half believe you do – go on your way as soon as possible and let me go mine (282).”
"There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time(260)."
"Your suspense is nearly ended, my darling; he shall be restored to you within a few hours(268)."
"And now speak to your father dearest. No other man in all this France could have done what he has done for me(275)."
"...by the citizen and citizeness Defarge(281)."
"I could not better testify my respect for your sister than by finally relieving her of her brother(290)."
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