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Show , r . - BOOKS It IN BRIEFr BRIEF'Sin BRIEF BRIEF'Sin ' 'Sin Sin ' of FatherAlmost Father FatherAlmost AZnost Almost , Sends SendsS SendsSon L Lon Son S on to Death DeathBy By ELIZABETH ELIZABET C J JAMESS JAMESPIES JAMES A'IES AIES JAMEStocracy A'IESS A'IESPIES ' S PIES worked cleverly The arIS arcs arIStocracy arcstocracy tocracy spied on the peasants peasantsand peasantsand peasantsand and the peasants spied on the nobil nobility nobility nobllIty ity wh Ie le the professional sp es had hada a lucrative trade The guillot ne cut cutoff cutoft cutoft off oft heads every day The French Frenchpeasants Frenchpeasants Frenchpeasants peasants were revolting ' Such is the theopenIng theopening theopening openIng scene sccne in Charles D ckcns ckens ckcnsA ckensA ckcnsA A Tale of Two CItiesJerry CitiesJerry Cities CitiesJerry Jerry Cruncher constantly licked lickedthe lickedthe lickedthe the rust ofl off h s d rty hands After Aftera a tune time we see Jer Jerry Jerry Jerry r " " ry at his honesttrade honestr honest F"trade Ftrade trade prying the 1 dfrom dfrom d | Afrom from a recently buried burled bur ,1led 1led , ied led coffin so that he hecan hecan " Lythe can sell the body tothe tothe to , . , the medical students students stu W * - idents dents Madam Defarge De ifarge farge .rdfarge sat krutt kmtt kmttng ng ngseemg ngseeing / \ .rd rd . y'seeing yseeing ' seemg seeing nothing nothmg ButDIckens But Butf \f f \ ' f1Dickens % /1Dickens 1Dickens / DIckens repeats thephrase thephrase the 'f f 1 ? phrase too oftenand often j S Sand ' and we suspect thiswoman this ? s - . - woman who fauts kmts knits ElIzabeth ElIzabethand Elizabethand Elizabethand and sees nothing nothmg James After JamesAfter a time tune we d scover scover s scover cover that in a code of stitches she sheis sheis sheis is record ng the names ot of all peo peopIe peopie peopie pIe who are to die by the guillot gulllot ne newhen newhen newhen when that goddess shall come into intopower intopower intopower power But here is the storyDr storyDr story storyDr Dr Alexander Manette young youngphysIcian youngphysician youngphysician physIcian of o ( Pans ParIs was escorted by bythe bythe bythe the Marquis Evremonde and hIs hIstWill histwin histwin tWill twin brother to a peasant g rl and andher andher andher her brother victims VlctunS of their theJI mercI mercIless merciless merciless less assault Dr Manette was over overpowered overpowered overpowered powered by the noblemen and put putinto putinto putinto into the Bast Ie le without WJthout trIalSohtary trialSolitary trial trialSolitary Solitary Sohtary confinement and anx ety etyabout etyabout etyabout about h s wife wlfe and his hJS child unborn unbornat unbornat unbornat at the t me ot of his imprIsonment imprisonmentgradually , , gradually wore away his mindSon mind mindSon Son Changes .ame ame Name NameThe . NameThe .ameThe The lovely v/ife v ife vnfe wife / of the pobleman poblemanEyremonde poblemanEyremonde noblemanEyremonde Eyremonde had tried to make retrI retrIbutlon retributton retnbution butlon button with WJth the result that her herson herson herson son . dropped his lus father s nameDICKENS name nameDICKENS DICKENS DICKENS- DICKENSNDISPE.SABLE DICKENSINDISPENSABLE - - INDISPENSABLE NDISPE.SABLE NDISPESABLE INDISPENSABLEA . A Tale of o ( Two Cities CltIes Is un tin unIIkc tinlike unlike IIkc like any other book that ( hat Dickens Dickenswrote Dickenswrote Dickenswrote wrote In the bulk of his wrItIng wrItInghis writinghis writmbis his characters and mCldents incidents mCldentsovershadow incidentsovershadow incidentsovershadow overshadow his loosely connected connectedplots connectedplots connectedplots plots but in A Tale of Two TwoCItIes TwoCities TwoCities CItIes the plot predommates"hen predominateshen predominates predommates predominatestthen " % tthen "hen hen hen Dickens decided to write writean writean writean an adventure novel and was con considermg considermg considermg sidermg the French revolutIon revolutIonfor revolutionfor revolutionfor for the background be he wrote a aletter aletter aletter letter to Thomas Cariyle Carlyle askmg asking askmglor askingfor askingfor lor for a bibliography for lor this pe- pe perIOd period pe period - - riod In answer Cariyle Carlyle sent a awagon awagon awagon wagon load of books his own ownsources ownsources ownsources sources in preparing his famous famons ' . History llistory of the French Revolu Revoluhon Revolulion Revoludon hon lion ' Dickens looked over the thegroup thegroup theEroup group read carefully Cariyle Carlyle s sbook sbook sbook book and did dad not bother with the therest therest therest therestCharles rest restCharles Charles Dickens Dlckcns lived from from1812 1812 until unhl 1870 and is called the themost themost themost most indispensable novelist novehst of ofEnglish ofEnglish ofEnglish English literatureand literature literatureand and became known as Charles Dar Darnay Darnay Darnay nay He gave up all his lUhen inhere lUhentance inheretance inheritance tance preferring preferrlUg to live bye in m LondonMeanwhIle LondonMeanwhile London LondonMeanwhile Meanwhile Dr Manette schild schildwas s child childwas childwas was born his hJS wife wlfe died and the thechIld thechild thechild chIld Lucie became a ward of ofTellson ofTellson ofTellson Tellson s bank and was removed removedto to England EnglandThe The younger sister of the m1.Jt m1Jt mgr m1.Jtdered mgrdered murdered . dered peasant peas"nt peasnt " g rl and boy grew to tomaturity tomaturity tomaturity maturity living IIvmg with one onl and ! ' thought thoughtRevenge thoughtRevenge thoughtRevenge Revenge She later married Ernest ErnestDefarge ErnestDefarge ErnestDefarge Defarge one time servant to Dr DrManette DrManette DrManette DrManetteAfter Manette ManetteAfter After 18 years Dr Manette was wasfreed wasfreed wasfreed freed Completely insane he was wasgiven wasgiven wasgiven given into the custody of Ernest D.e De Re D.efarge Refarge Defarge DefargeOM . farge farge1.ou fargeI \OM OM 1.ou 1ou \ I . ou recall Lucie s meeting meetmg WIth WIthher withher withher her father tor for the first time in U1 her her1 herI I fe Ic of going gomg to London to live hve of ofthe ofthe ofthe the meeting meetmg with Charles Darnay on onthe onthe onthe I the passage over and of the result resultant resultant resultant ant nccess necess ty of Luc e s witnessmg witnessing witnessingat witnessmgat at Charles trial for treason m lU in Lon London London London LondonD don donD D ckens portrayal of this tlus trial I is isa i&a ia & a masterpiece of satire satJIe The court courtroom courtroom courtroom room was packed tor for this e'Cecu eCecu e'CecutlOn e'cecution execulion ' tlOn tion was wa ' to be out of the usual usualrun usualrun usualrun run of o1 entertainment entertamment the prIsoner prIsonerwas prisonerwas prisonerwas was to be hanged then quartered quarteredBemg quarteredBeing quarteredBeing Bemg Being French he was as good as ascondemned ascondemned ascondemned condemned before the trial started startedBut startedBut startedBut But the people were cheated out of oftheir oftheir oftheir their day s sport for Sidney Car Carton Carton Carton ton lazy assistant to the defendant s scounsel scounsel scounsel counsel shattered the cJIcumstanlt cJIcumstanltl circumstantial circumstantialevidence circumstantialevidence \l l < \ leVIdence eVIdence by standing and calling callingthe callingthe callingthe the attention of the court of his own ownstrIk ownstrak ownsink strIk strak ng likeness hkenes to the defendant defendantCharles defendantCharles . Charles was freed Charles in m Dancer Danger DangerYou DancerYou You recall the love of S dney and andCharles andCharles andCharles Charles for Lucie and the marrIage marriageof { ) of f Lucie to Charles Sidney wor worsh worsh worsh sh ped her from afar and was an anoccasIOnal anoccasional anoccasional occasIOnal visitor to their theJI homeAfter homeAfter home homeAfter After a time of love and peace a aletter aletter letter came carne to Charles that caused causedhIm causedhim causedhim hIm to return to France to save the theMe thelife thelife Me life of a family servant But thmgs things thmgshad thingshad thingshad had happened of which he knew knewnothmg knewnothing knewnothing nothmg nothing 3As 5 J 3 5As ! As soon as Charles reached relched ! 'ParIs ParIs 'ParIshe Parishe ' "Parishe Parishe " he was unprIsonedAgam imprisonedAgain imprisoned unprIsoned imprisonedAgain Again Agam S dney Carton saved the theWe thelife thelife We life of Charles by means of their theirremarkable theirremarkable theirremarkable remarkable I l keness Sidney forced forcedone forcedone forcedone one of ot the prison guards to permit permithun permithurl permithim hun hurl to say good by to Charles Us Using Using Using ing drugs to overcome Charles he hechanged hechanged hechanged changed clothes with him and dIed dIedIn diedin diedin In his plaee plate plae place , e Bell SyndicateWNV SyndicateWHU Syndicate -WNV WNV -WHU WHU - WNU Service |