Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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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