FRANCISCO GAVIDIA UNIVERSITY

SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY

Reading and Conversation II Group 02

LICDA. MARIA JOSE GRANDE HENRIQUEZ

ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK TALE OF TWO CITIES.

Students names:
Castillo Jovel Katherine Sara

CJ100411

Chacn Rivera Tania Vanesa

CR102313

Fabin Palacios Ethel Mayte

FP101112

Hrcules Avils Blanca Lisbeth

HA100113

Hernndez Vasquez Omar Balmore

HV100213

INTRODUCTION

In the present work, as a group, we answer some questions about the book A
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Therefore, we analize the main characters
of the book, which shows and helps to understand some scenes of the book; a
book that deals with the major themes of duality, revolution, and resurrection. It
was the best of times, it was the worst of times in London and Paris, as economic
and political unrest lead to the American and French Revolutions. The main
characters in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities are all recalled to life, or resurrected,
in different ways as turmoil erupts.

ACTIVITY FOR BOOK 1 (CHAPTERS 1-6)

1. What does chapter one describe?

The first chapter is based or describes the situations lived France and England in
the year 1775 based on the years of the French Revolution. It describes how the
inhabitants of each of the countries were suffering various situations such as
robberies by people suffering in performing normal work-out day and night thieves
returned. It also describes some of the life of kings.
2. What characters appear in chapter 2 and what do they do?
Joe: He is guard in the travel of Mr. Jarvis.
Tom: He is the coach roof in the travel of Mr. Jarvis.
Mr. Jarvis: He is a business man who works in Tellsons Bank.
Jerry: He is a messenger and he is looking for Mr. Jarvis.

3. How does chapter 4 describe Lucie?

A young lady of not more than seventeen in a riding-cloak, short, slight and pretty
with golden hair, a pair of blue eyes with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a
singular capacity.
4. Who does Lucie meet in chapter 4 and what happen when she talks to
him?
Lucie meets a Mr. Jarvis Lorry. Lucies is so shocked when Mr. Lorry begins to tell
her about the life of her father that she faints.
5. Who is Monsieur Defarge?
Hes a wine shop owner that used to work as a servant for Dr. Manette.
6. Who did Lucy and Jarvis Lorry visit in Paris?
They traveled to Paris because they will meet Dr. Manette.
7. Who is the shoemaker?
Alexander Manette.
8. How do the revolutionaries identify each other?
They identify each other as Jacques.

9. Who did Dr. Manette mistake Lucie for?

Dr. Manette mistakes Lucie for his wife because they look alike.

ACTIVITY FOR BOOK 2 (CHAPTERS 1-24)

1. How does the chapter describe Jerry Cruncher?

As an odd-job man for Tellson's Bank, gruff, short-tempered, superstitious, and
uneducated.
2. Why is Charles Darnay in a trial?
Darnay has been charged with divulging secret information to the king of France
namely, that England plans to send armed forces to fight in the American colonies.
3. Who are the main witnesses in the trial?
Jarvis Lorry, Lucie Manette and Dr. Manette.
4. Who is Sidney Carton?
He is the assistant of Stryver.
5. Does Sydney Carton have a family?
No, he does not.
6. What is the nickname of Stryver?
His nickname is The Lion.
7. What is the nickname of Carton?
His nickname is The Jackal.
8. According to Miss Pross opinion, who is the only man worthy of Lucie?
Her brother, Solomon Pross.

9. What happens in Chapter 7 with the Marquis Evrmondes carriage?

His carriage accidentally runs over a child.
10. What does the note say in the body of the Marquis?
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
11. What is the profession of Charles Darnay in London?
He is a higher teacher of the French language.
12. What does Madame Defarge knit?
She knits the names of people to be killed.
13. Who is John Barsad?
(Solomon Pross) A British spy who swears that patriotism is his only motive.
14. Where was Dr. Manette in Prison?
In the bastille.
15. What did Carton pledge to Lucy?
That he would do anything for Lucie, including give his life.
16. Whose body did Jerry Cruncher steal?
Roger Clys body.
17. Who were the king and the queen in Versailles, France, in the book?
King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
18. What happened to the shoemakers bench in chapter 19?
Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemakers bench into pieces. Miss pross and him cut it up
into small pieces and burned it.

19. How many children did Lucy and Darnay had?

Two children. Little Lucie and a son who died very young.
20. What happened d to a man called Foulon?
He died.
21. In chapter 24, why did Mr. Lorry go back to France in the middle of the
political turmoil?
Because the papers of the Paris brach of Tellsons Bank are in peril and he wanted
to prevent those papers from falling into the hands of the revolutionaries.

ACTIVITY FOR BOOK 3 (CHAPTERS 1-15)

1. What is the sharp female newly-born?

La Guillotine.
2. Who cries Help for the Bastille prisoners kindred in La Force!?
Dr. Manette.
3. How long did Darnay stay in prison?
He stayed in prison for 15 months.
4. What is the Carmagnole?
Its a horrible and violent dance performed by throngs of people in the streets.
5. How did Lucie see Darnay while he was in prison?
Through a window from which Darnay might see her in the street.
6. Why did the court acquit Darnay?
Because long ago he renounced his inheritance, name and properties.

7. Who accused Darnay so he was arrested again?

Monsieur Defarge, Madame Defarge y el Dr. Manette.
8. What is the real identity of Barsad?
His real identity is Solomon Pross.
9. What is the plan on Carton to save Darnay?
To switch place with Darnay.
10. Who killed Madame Defarge?
She killed herself by accident when her gun goes off.

ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERS

Charles Darnay
Charles Darnay, in reality Charles St. Evrmonde and his uncle is Marquis
Evrmonde, he is an antiaristocrat who has renounced his title. Charles choose to
live in England, where he becomes a teacher of languages, he finds happiness and
success as the husband of Lucie Manette. When he returns to France to aid an agent
of the St. Evrmonde family (Gabelle) who has been captured by the revolutionists,
he himself is arrested and condemned to the guillotine. He escapes because Sydney
Carton takes his place in prison. Darnay returns to England with his wife and her
father. He is very honest and brave because of his decision to reveal Dr. Manette
his true identity.

Sydney Carton
He is the legal assistant to Stryver, a successful London barrister. A drunkard and a
misanthrope, he has no aim or purpose in his life until he meets Lucie Manette and
falls secretly in love with her. Because of his remarkable physical resemblance to
Charles Darnay, who becomes Lucies husband, he is able to sacrifice himself on

the guillotine in Darnays place, a deed that finally gives a real meaning to his life in
his own eyes. He is a man of profound merit.

Dr. Manette
He is Lucies father, a brilliant doctor imprisoned for many years in the Bastille in
France because he aided a poor servant girl who was forced to become the mistress
of the Marquis St. Evrmonde, Charles Darnays uncle. Dr. Manette loses his mind
in the Bastille and becomes obsessed with making shoes. His mind mends after his
release, but whenever he is reminded of his prison days, he seeks out his shoe
bench and begins work. He tries to free Charles Darnay from the French prison by
appealing to the sympathies of the revolutionists, but he is unsuccessful. At Darnays
trial, a document written by the doctor while in prison is presented as evidence to
secure the young aristocrats conviction and sentence of death. He also proves to
be a kind and loving father, he always looks after Lucie and prizes Lucies happiness
above all things.

Lucie Manette
She is a beautiful young French woman, closely connected with political events in
France. Her father had been a prisoner in the Bastille for many years, sent there
because he had acquired knowledge of the hidden crimes of the St. Evrmonde
family. Her husband, Charles Darnay, is a member of that family and is condemned
to the guillotine during the Revolution. He escapes death through the efforts of his
wife, her father, and Sydney Carton. Throughout these trials, Lucie remains levelheaded, practical, and devoted. Lucie was raised as a ward of Tellsons Bank and
her love helps to transform Carton into a good man, a hero.

Monsieur Defarge
He is a wineshop keeper at St. Antoine in Paris. A former houseservant of Dr.
Manette, he cares for his former master after he is released from the Bastille and
before he goes to England. He is also one of the most radical of the revolutionists.
He is intelligent and a natural leader, with his wife, he tries to get Charles Darnay
executed by producing the document Dr. Manette had written years before.

Madame Defarge
She is the wife of the wineshop keeper, a ruthless, cold woman who hates all
aristocrats. Madame Defarge attends every guillotining and knits a stitch for each
head that drops. She embodies the chaos of the French Revolution. Madame
Defarge is basically obsessed with revenge against the Evrmondes. She dies while
struggling with Miss Pross, Lucie Darnays maid.

Jarvis Lorry
He is the confidential clerk of Tellson and Company. He is instrumental in getting Dr.
Manette out of France into England, and he goes with the Manettes to Paris during
the dark days of the Revolution while Charles Darnay, in prison, awaits his execution.
He has a strong moral sense and an honest heart that is why he also looks after
Lucie.
Jerry Cruncher
He is an employee at the London banking house of Tellson and Company by day, a
resurrection man (grave robber) by night, he digs up dead bodies and sells them to
scientists. Devoted to Lucie and her father, he aids in Charles Darnays escape from
France.

Miss Pross
She is the devoted housekeeper who has looked after Lucie Manette from childhood.
She is intelligent and physically strong. Left behind to cover their flight when the
Manettes escape from Paris, she struggles with Madame Defarge, who tries to make
her confess where the Manettes have gone. Madame Defarge is killed accidentally
when her gun goes off. Miss Pross, deafened by the explosion, escapes with Jerry
Cruncher and follows her master and mistress to freedom.

Marquis Evrmonde
Marquis Evrmonde is a cruel French aristocrat and Charles Darnays uncle. He kills
a child when his coachman drives his horses too fast. The childs father gains
admittance to the chateau and kills the arrogant nobleman. The marquis and his
breed are responsible for the peasants uprising, causing the French Revolution.

Mr. Stryver
He is a self-centered, proud lawyer employed as Charles Darnays counsel when the
Charles, the language teacher is accused of carrying treasonous papers between
France and England. He is Sydney Cartons patron and employer, a shrewd,
determined man who looks years older than his actual age.

Solomon Pross/ John Basard

Solomon Pross, alias John Barsad is Miss Prosss brother, he is a complete
scoundrel, he abandons his sister after obtaining all of her money. Calling himself
John Barsad, he becomes a spy for the English. He informs Madame Defarge of
Charles Darnays marriage to Lucie Manette. He is a turnkey at the Conciergerie in
Paris while Darnay is imprisoned there. Sydney Carton recognizes him but does not
reveal his identity.

Roger Cly
He is John Basards partner and Charles Darnays former servant. He testifies falsely
when Darnay is on trial at the Old Bailey. He is supposed to be dead and buried, but
Jerry Cruncher knows that his coffin was empty.

Gabelle
He is a village postmaster and keeper of rents. Arrested by the revolutionists, he
appeals to Charles Darnay in England for aid. In response to his plea, Darnay goes
on his dangerous errand in France.

Gaspard
He is the father of the child who was killed by the marquis carriage. He succeeds in
murdering the marquis by plunging a knife into the sleeping noblemans heart

CONCLUSION
To sump up, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical story that has portrayed many
different people and one of the points why this novel is different from other historical
fictions is because the background of the novel is the Revolution of France. The
novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked
Bastille and so on, which displayed peoples great strength.
Now we have a better understanding of the French Revolution and the different
perspectives of the people who were involved. The different groups of society played
an important role in the social, political, and economic turmoil and changes that
occurred in France during the revolution.
As a group, even though is definitely a challenging novel, we highly recommend this
reading because Dickens is one of the greatest writers of all time and this is certainly
a great book.