Book Report On A Tale Of Two C

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a large cask of wine had dropped and broken in the street. Because many people had very little to eat or drink, a large crowd gathered around the dirty puddle and began drinking what they could of the spilled wine. This scene was very descriptive, explaining how the people tried to scoop up the wine in their hands, and how they soaked it up with handkerchiefs from women's heads and squeezed the wine into infants' mouths. Other people licked the stones in the street or sucked on the pieces of wood from the cask. This passage showed how unfortunate many of the people were, without actually saying that they were just poor. Specific words and phrases were used to effectively paint a vivid picture of the scene.
One of the most important scenes in this novel was the scene in which Dr. Manette is at the house of the Evremondes', tending to a psychotic young peasant girl. The two Evremonde brothers convince Dr. Manette to come with them, to see someone who they believe needs ...

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them as best as I could, given the situation. I also would have stayed with the brother, and tried to comfort him too, because although he was sane, he was also in a great deal of emotional pain due to the actions of the Evremonde brothers.
A Tale of Two Cities takes place in many different settings. As the title states, it takes place mainly in two cities, Paris and London. The characters all go back and forth between cities, some being originally from France, and some being originally from England. Much of the novel takes place in the Bastille, a dank, dark prison in Paris, because Dr. Manette, Charles Darney, and Sydney Carton all occupy the Bastille at some point during the ...

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