วันอาทิตย์ที่ 18 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2555

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. 

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