The Tale of Two Cities (Timeline)

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The Tale of Two Cities(Page 302-507)

     Travel through France proves difficult for Darnay. Revolutionaries often stopped him and questioned him. Lucie and Doctor Manette stormed into the Paris branch of Tellson's Bank. To find Mr. Lorry. They inform him that Darnay sits imprisoned in La Force. Fearing that Lucie and Manette's presence might compromise the bank's business, Lorry ushers Lucie, her daughter, and Miss Pross to a nearby lodging. But Madame Defarge coldly responds that the revolution will not stop for the sake of Lucie and her families. Four days later, Manette returns from La Force. Lorry notes a change in the once-fragile Manette, who now is hungry for power and strenght. Darney was still in prison for a year and three months. While the family waits for Darnay's trial, Manette tells Lucie of a window in the prison from which Darnay might see her in the street. Manette then tells Lucie that Darnay will strand trial on the following day and assures her that her husband will fare well in it.
     A motley and bloodthirsty crowd assembled at the trial of Charles Darnay. The crowd carried Darnay home in a chair on their shoulder. The next day, although Manette rejoices in having saved Darnay's life, Lucie remains terrified for her husband. When Manette asks for the identity of this third person, the soldier replies that Manette will recieve the answer the very next day. Meanwhile Jerry Cruncher and miss Pross discover Miss Pross's long-lost brother, Solomon, in a wine shop. He threatens to reveal Barsad's true identity to the revolutionaries unless the spy accompanies him to Tellson's. Lorry scolds Cruncher for leading a secret life outside his job at Tellson's. Cruncher hints that there may be many doctors involved in grave-robbing who banks at Tellson's. That night, as he wanders the streets of Paris, Carton thinks of Lucie. Defarge claims that Manette wrote the letter while imprisoned int he Bastille, and he reads it aloud. It tells the story of Manette's imprisonment. After hearing the story from Manette, the jury sentences Darnay to death, to pay for the sins of his father and uncle.
     The courtroom crowd pours into the streets to celebrate Darnay's condemnation. Carton goes to Defarge's wine shop. The Defarge's wine shop has marvel at how much he physically resembles the condemned Darnay. At midnight Manette arrives home completely out of his mind. He looks madly for his shoemaking bench. Carton then bid farewell to Lucie. Fifty-two people had been condemned to die the next day. Darnay resolves to meet his death bravely. Carton changes cloth and switched place with Darnay. Meanwhile, Defarge heads toward Lucie apartment to catch Lucie in the illegal act of mourning a prisonor. Carton and the young seamstress reach the guillotine. The Vengence and the other revolutionary women worry that Madame Defarge will miss the beheading of Charles Darnay.In the end, Carton dies.

The Tale of Two Cities(Page 202-301)

     In Paris, Defarge entered his wine shop whome he calls Jacques. Three men came out of the shop in line individually. However, the workmen built a gallows in the middle of town, and soon the man was hanged. When the mender of roads finished his recollection, Defarge who see that their efforts will prove easier if the aristocrats continue to believe in the peasantry's allegiance. Defarge returned to Saint Antoine later that evening. A policeman friend warned Defarge that a spy name John Barsad has been sent to their neighborhood. Madame Defarge added Darnay's name to her registry, unsettling Defarge. In the eve of Lucie's marriage to Darney, Lucie and her father have enjoyed long days of happiness together. Lucie sneaked down to her father's room and finds him sleeping soundly.
     Darnay and Docter Manette converse beefore going to church for Darney's wedding to Lucie. As they proceeded to go to the honeymoon. They had feared that he will not recover in time to join newlyweds, as planned, on the honeymoon, and for nine days they keep careful watch over him. On the tenth morning, Lorry wakes to find the shoemaker's bench put away and the Docter reading a book. A few days later Manette leaves to join Lucie and Darnay. In his absence, Lorry and Miss Pross hack the shoemaker's bench to pieces, burned it and bury the tool. When Lucie and Darnay returned home form their honeymoon, Sydney Carton is their first visitor. Lucie deems this judgement too harsh and insists that Carton possesses a good, heart. Years went by and Lucie and her family enjoy a tranquil life. She gives birth to a daughter, little Lucie, and a son, who dies young. Lorry visits the Darnays and reports that an alarming number of French citizens are sending their money and property to England.
     One week later in Saint Antoine, Defarge arrives bearing news of the capture of Foulon, a wealthy man who once declared that if people were starving they should eat grass. The French countryside lies ruined and desolate. A unidentified man, weary from travel, meets the mender of roads. Then there was a report of a pleasant being killed. It is said it is happening all over French. Three years pass. Politcal turmoil continued in France, causing England to become a refuge for persecuted aristocrats. Lorry receives an urgent letter, addressed to the Marquis St. Evremonde, with instructions for its delivery.

The Tale of Two Cities (Page 63-201)

     In 1780, Tellson's bank in London, is suppose to lose its status as a respectable business. It is located by Temple Bar, the spot where the government displayed the heads of executed criminals. Jerry Cruncher is employed by Tellson as a runner and a messenger.  Then after the bank clerk instructs Cruncher to go to hte Old Bailey Courthouse and away orders from Jarbis Lorry. Cruncher arrives at the court. Eventually Cruncher discovers that thell will serve as an witnesses against the prisoners.
     The Attorney-General prosectues the case, demanding that the jury will find guild of passing the English secrets to the French hands. Docter Manette is also called to the stand, but he claims that he remembers nothing of the trip because of his illness. Mr. Stryver is in the middle of the examination but found no results. But in the end all of them exits the courtroom. All of them were found innocent.
     Sydney Carton made his way from the tavern to Mr. Stryver's apartment. They had a conversation and wondered about Carton's true feelings. Four months later, Mr. Lorry had a trusted friend of the Manetter family. They discussed why the doctor continues to keep his shoemaker's bench. Monseigneur was a great lord in the royal court, and holded a reception in Paris. He surrounds himself with luxury. Later on the Marquis arrives in teh small village to which he serves as lord. He then arrives at his chateau. Later that night, his newphew arrives, with a letter from the Jacques.
     After an year had passed, Darnay made a moderate living as a French Teacher in London. Dorney had left after Lucie hearing her father cobbling away at his shoemaking bench. Later Carton and Stryver worded in the chambers. Stryver suggest that Carton himself marry Lucie. The next day, Stryver plans to take Lucie to the Vauxhall Garden to propose her about the marriage. Lorry then persuades Stryver to postpone the marriange. Carton, who frequently wanders near the Manettes' house at night enters the house. Carton ends his confession with a pledge that he would do anything for Lucie.

The Tales of Two Cities Summary page 1-62 (Book One)

     The stories begins with like a a phrase "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of the belief..." The story takes place in England and France in 1775. The era or age is made by adverse behaviors. He awnted to resemble the present time with the year Dickens wrote. In England, the public like to worry about religious prophecies such as the Christ, popular paranomal phenomena like the Cock-lane ghost.  But France was having witnessing spendings and skirmishes.
     It starts of on a Friday night in November 1775. A mail was sent to London from Dover. The journey was dangerous that the three men had to hike all the way to the destination. From the mist, a messenger on a horse appears and asks to speak to Jarvis Lorry. The trabelers react and felt fear if we was about to be raided or something. But Mr Lorry recognizes the msessenger's voice as Jerry Crunvher, the man at Tellson. When Jerry had got the note, it had directions of what he needed to do. He needed to wait at Dover for Mam'selle.
     The narrator thinks about the secrets and mysteries that each human has. Lorry as he was riding in the seat, had imagine if he was talking to a specter, who tells Lorry his body was buried for eighteen years. Lorry begam worried and told his companions. He asked some question that was abit weird. He felt he would die as soon as he seems the woman.
     Next morning, Lorry arrived at the Hotel in Dover. He wore like a businessman. Then around afternoon, a waiter announces that Lucie Manette had arrived from London. After he met the woman, he knew why she had been sent to meet Lorry. Lorry's father was a reputed docter. She than asked if he can recall life.

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