A Tale of Two Cities: Reflection

I was a guy who hate reading book, lazy, and love something that has nothing to do with my thinking. But when I first start reading this book called "A Tale of Two Cities" written by Charles Dickens, a famous writer who live on the 80s and wrote many popular book, recommended by my friends. I started feeling that reading book is not that boring. By reading this book I get to know about what is the real meaning of "LOVE".

This book is most likely about love. In Thai they would called it love triangle in which a guy loves the women but the women instead loves the other guy. This book also told me something important that is about sacrifices. Carton sacrifices himself to save Darnay because of the love he had with the female character Lucie Manette. Having sacrifices in this story make the story felt gloomy something like that.

I dislike the story a bit because of the ending. The story end in a sad way I think because Carton sacrifices himself to save Darnay. I doesn't know that people think the same way as me or not, but the ending I like to have is that both Darnay, Carton, and Lucie are still alive and live happily after. But instead the story ends with sacrifices which results in sadness.

Even though, I dislike the story a bit but I would like to read it again. The most part of the story are interested with adventures and romantic parts. I would like to recommend this book also to my friend to read because is very exciting. By reading this book I've overcome my laziness, and the feeling about hating book. So all I would like to said is that this book is very exciting and you won't regret after reading this book. 

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A Tale of Two Cities: Characters Description

Describing the goals, dreams, and motives behind a main characters:

Lucie Manette – An ideal lady, perfect in every way. She was loved by both Carton and Charles Darnay. She marries Darnay and had a daughter. She is the "golden thread" after the Book Two is named, she is called because she holds her father's and her family's lives together (and because of her blond hair like her mother's). She also ties nearly every character in the book together.

Charles Darnay – A young French noble of the Evrémonde family. In disgust of the cruelty of his family to the French family, he has taken on the name "Darnay" (after his mother's maiden name, D'Aulnais) and left France to England. He show an honesty in his decision to reveal to Doctor Manette his true identity as a member of the  Evrémonde family. 

Sydney Carton – A quick-minded man, loves drinking alcohol, lazy, his existence is a waste of life and takes every opportunity to tell that he cares for nothing and no one. But later he changed and changed as the story continues. The final part is that Carton sacrifices his life to Darnay by swaping his place with him. So this means that he worth something that is important.

Dr. Alexandre Manette – Lucie's father, kept as a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years and later found by Lucy and Mr. Lorry at the Defarge house. He make shoes to covered up his feeling in prison. As the story continues Dr. Manette have become kind and gentle father to Lucy.

A Tale of Two Cities: Cover Page

Four events: 1. Mr. Lorry met Lucy at the trainstation

                    2. Lucy and Mr. Lorry met Dr. Manette, who was a shoe maker.

                    3. Darnay was accused of being a traitor.

                    4. Carton sacrifices his life to save Darnay.

Interviewing Teacher: Mr.Ian

Timeline

The Event Pictures

This picture represent when Mr. Lorry is waiting Ms. Manette at the London Subway



This picture above represent when Mr. Darnay was in the court for being accused of traitor.

This picture represent when Mr. Darnay and Ms. Lucie had a wedding.

This picture represent when Darnay and the Manette were in airplane to France.



A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #4

Hearing that her husband, Darnay, has been captured in prison. They rushed to Paris to save him together with her daughter, Mr. Lorry and Dr. Manette. Dr. Manette claim himself to be a victim of this incident and told the people that Darnay was innocence, and so Darnay was free from prison.

When Madame Defarge heard about that, she seeks to revenge for her sister that was molestered and her brother that was killed by the Evremonde family, the family that is a relative to Darnay's family. Because of that Madame Defarge accused Darnay and he was again rearrested and was sentence to death. 

Now there was no hope of saving him. Even Lucie's and her daughter was in danger because of the Revolution in France. Mr. Sydney was also their in France because his love to Lucies he traveled with her to France. The story told that Mr. Sydney later sacrifices himself to Darnay by entering the prison, drugs Darnay, and with the help of Mr. Lorry, Darnay was carried out of the prison. Sydney sacrifices was made to fulfill his promise to Lucie about his love.

The last part of the story mention that Madame Defarge was shot dead while she was going to arrest Lucie and the other by Mr. Pross. Now, Darnay and the Manette altogether return to England safely. Mr. Sydney didn't feel any regret about his action and know that he would be in Lucie's family heart forever. =)

A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #3

Chapter:5-11

Now, year have pass and both Darnay and Sydney Carton fell in love in Lucie Manette. Carton is a lawyer who wastes his life in drinking, wasting his life, and idling. They first met at the court where Darnay was accused of being a traitor. Carton love Lucie with all his love, and so later he confessed his love to her but Lucie, which got no interest on Carton, turn him down. Lucie which got a flavor to Darnay later married each other.

On the wedding day, as he promise to Dr. Manette that he would tell the secret if he let her daughter marries him. He then reveals himself of being a French aristocrat who would claim his inheritance and now lives in London under a given name and works as a tutor their. His uncle, Marquis St. Evremonde, is a cruel man known for his callousness. He has no respect on human life. The story mentioned that when he was driving home from a meeting he kills a boy on the streets and refuses to help a poor widow in need of a tombstone for her husband's grave. That night he was murdered in his bed. 

The French Revolution broke out in fury of the Bastille. In London, Darnay has been happily married to Lucie for eleven years, and they have a beautiful daughter. Hearing that Gabelle, his servant in France, has been arrested, Darnay secretly returns to Paris to save him. But instead, he was caught being a noble man and was imprisoned. 

A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #2

Chapter 6 pg(49-61)

Now they had a conversation with Dr. Manette. First Dr. Manette think that Lucie was her wife because of her yellowish hair color and a scraped necklace. Also the last thing he saw before he was imprison is his wife face but now he is free but can't remember his wife face clearly but he has aged. Now the truth is that Dr. Manette(the shoe maker) was her father.

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Chapter 1-4pg (63-103)

Five years later,the setting was in the tellson's bank, an ugly building, the employee working in their was quite old and were very conservative. One of them was Jerry Cruncher a mail messenger. The book told that he was sick and now lying on the bed, later he scolded and did some violent thing to the wife telling that her prayer was like a curse on him. After that, he was called by one of the Tellson's bank messengers.

When he arrived at the at the Tellson's bank, the secretary there told him to go to the court, Old Baily, and waited for Mr. Lorry there and gives a message letter to him. When he arrive at the court he was ammused by the gigantic amount of spectator outside the court.

When he went inside the court he saw a prisoner, Charles Darnay, Charles was accuse of being a traitor to George III, the king of England. Charles job was to get the information about what forces the English have and send it to the Canada, but instead according to the book he sell the secret information to France and so now Charles was put in the court. Lucie was testified by the detective about the prisoner, she told that the first time she met him was five years ago, when she was crossing the England to France. There Lucie met Charles and he provided her a shelter. After telling everything to the Detective, Charles Darnay was justify as innocent and was free from the court.

After the judgement, everyone congratulate for Charles of being innocence, and he fall in love with Lucie Manette, daughter of Dr. Manette, and he kisses her hand. After Dr. Manette saw that he start to dislike Charles, and also Mr. Carton does.

A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #1

Chapter 1-5 (pg.4- 48)

The story begins around 1775, in England and France. On that period it's the best of time and also the worst of time in England. On that time England was worries about the religious, prophecies, a paranormal phenomena about ghost

The story starts at Friday night on the late November of 1775, when the main character Mr. Jarvis Lorry went for a trip with his passengers, a man in a horse appeared. First the three of them taught that the man was a robber but Darvis remember the voice and accepted the letter. After receiving the letter from the his messenger, he read it. The letter told that he should be going to Dover,England to meet a young women called " Ma'am Selle".

The next morning, after finish packing his cloth at the Royal George hotel where he stay for a night, he waited for her to came at the train station. Later, a waiter there announces that Lucie Mannette has arrived. He then approaches to her as a business man but later tell her the reason why he came to meet her. He told her that her father was free from the prison years ago and was now cared by his servant. So they go to Paris to his father servant house.

After arriving to Monsieur Defarge, a wine seller and a servant, in Paris. Lorry and Lucie ask him to meet with Lucie's father (Doctor Mannette) first Defarge didn't allowed but after telling that Lucie is her daughter he allowed. When they arrived at the fifth floor, they were shocked to see Doctor Mannette that he has aged much more than they've imagined and so they started their conversation to Doctor Mannette. 

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tales of Two Cities

By. Charles Dickens

Spectator Sport: Chinese restaurant toilet

The humid air smelled like rotten yogurt, which had probably expired about a gazillion years ago. The filthy floor was contaminated with gargantuan specks of mud and soil, and the tiles that was once (they should have been) luminous white were polluted with countless of bacterial infections with slimy creatures slithering along the broken cracks in the ground. Upon the wall, worn out by time and crumpled by age, hung a cracked mirror, whose ability to reflect accurately all that stood before it was replaced by an undesirable opaqueness. It was dark--dim light shone through the surface of archaic bulbs that were in all manners similar to ones in abandoned factories. "This is hell," I thought as I stood waiting in line. Hell could be cold; hell could be hot; and hell could be smelly. No one knows...

The line was long, and I really needed to go. Nonetheless, there are others too that could not hold it any longer. As I looked around, I saw one man—a black man with soldier pants, blue jacket, and ripped jeans. His demeanor resembled that of a way the terrorist act. In fact, my qualm tells me that he was absolutely a terrorist. However, his face was not cruel but rather burdened—burdened with poop. He could not bear it any longer, I could tell, and his face started twisting and twitching. Gladly, after a few minutes, he was able to enter and let go. Then, instantly, there was an explosion I wonder what it was in the beginning, but the proliferating foul odor straightforwardly informed me that a surfeit of fart-bomb had been dropped. Everybody else quickly put their hands over their nose and mouth, protecting those sensitive organs from the blasting smell of the invincible fart-bomb. When the assertive terrorist came out, he was on cloud nine: he was smiling so wide that his lips would touch his eyes if they could. I thought he would be abashed, but no, the man was not at all. Piercing eyes glared at him, determined to rip the terrorist's body open, as he walked gracefully out of the toilet room like nothing happened at all, leaving only the extreme smell of his fart as a remembrance that he had once farted here. From that day on, I would never enter a Chinese restaurant ever again.

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The Word that Best Describe ME!

The word that best describes me. I think the word that best fit me is the word called "laziness". I love that word, thou mostly likely everyone almost dislike this word or don't want to act like. I love to sleep, on holiday I woke up very late about on noon and my parents scolded me. I've tried to change by setting an alarm clock aside my bed but still it wouldn't help me because I'm lazy to wake.

 With my attitude of being lazy the toughest thing to do everyday for me is waking up from my bed on schooldays, I think everybody have this kind of problem. Waking up on school day is hard, when I wake up on morning my head was always dizzy which make my study muddle up and so all I could do was to bring back  my book at home and read it through on night. 

The thing I like about acting lazy is that everything is moving fast while I'm moving normally, I like time to pass quickly because so that when holiday reach I could sleep as much as I want with no responsibility at school I mean no homework or no test tomorrow so I could sleep with my mind clear. While on Sunday I need to do homework with my mind focus for hours. So what I would like to said is that acting lazy is what I like to do the most. =)