The Last Entry of "A Tale of Two Cities"

Today, I finished the book "A Tale of Two Cities." Now, I finally found the story that I was looking for. Until now, I did not have a clue what the story was, but as I progessed farther into the story, I found it. And it was quite endearing(?) also. When I found that Charles Darnay, or Evre'monde as he is called, was to be imprisoned again, I felt kind of 'tired(?)' that I thought the same story was going to be followed again and again. But I found out that it wasn't. In fact, it gave me a great impression. Sydney Carton was a hero after all! So, I think I can actually say that I enjoyed the book after finishing it and have a lot of mixed emotions about what happened to all of the characters in the end.

My Fifth Reading Week

For this week’s reading of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay is now captured in France of the La Force Prison. After he went to save his friend, Gabelle, he was caught and imprisoned. However, good news to Darnay, Dr. Manette, who has a great and good influence in France arrives and manages to save the to save Charles Darnay as he talks to the jury in the court that was about to send Darnay to death, I was beginning to see a connection between the countries and that there is a story in this once what I thought “story”.

4th Blog Entry; A Tale of Two Cities

- In this reading, the French Revolution finally began from the storming of the Bastille Prison, in this scene, you can see how deadly the French people were when they were fighting, how they have become cold and mutinous about the French. They used all the weapons they could use against the French Prison keepers. And even still, they won! But here, I think you can see the deadliness the Defarges have been holding up in their hearts against the royalties of the French. Another I want to pick at is why the Mannetes or Charles Darnay were introduced. It comes out that they were married, but I don't see a connection between the two utterly different topics. Right now at the moment, the book is becoming boring, however I still have the sense of expectations for Charles Dickens...

Week Three

This is now the third week of reading "A Tale of Two Cities" and so far, the plot is very ordinary, the narrator (3rd Person) is just describing how the lives of all the characters are playing out at that moment. Few new characters have appeared; Mr. Stryyver, Sydney Carton, and Charles Darnay, who appears to be a very prosperous man in France, decided to renounce his property and come to England. So now, the story is beginning to take place in England where all three new characters are asking Miss Mannete to marry him. So here, Mr. Lorry stops Mr. Stryyver to ask Miss Mannete because he thought that Mr. Stryyver was not good enough for the Doctor's daughter. The other two however, had more success in the goal towards marriage. Charles Darnay asked the Doctor, the father of Miss Mannete, whether he approves of him or not. Sydney Carton however tells Miss Mannete if she could like him or not.
The story till now for me seems sort of boring still, but I'm still looking forward to the main plot, if there is one.

Blog for Class, Tale of Two Cities

This reading was during class. And here, you can learn some more truths about the
setting of the time period; the French Revolution. Here, in the book, it says that men in 'those times' that men drank a lot and very frequently. I would say it was due to the hardships of life and that they would have liked to avoid them. So, they thought the only way out would be to drink plentiful. Now back to the book! Now there are two new characters that are introduced, the Jackal and the Lion. Although I didn't really see an importance from the revealance of the two characters, I do believe they will appear once more in the book. Later in chapter 6, Mr. Lorry, Miss Mannete and more new characters named Miss Pross and Dr. Mannete appeared; Miss Mannete being the 'wild red woman' who appeared in the very first scene where Miss Mannete fainted and Dr. Mannete, I believe, has a daughter, although she has not been revealed yet. Now it shows where Mr. Lorry acquaints Miss Pross and discuss about his 'Ladybird'. And after this scene, I must read more to find out about the storyline in general. Up until now though, I'm thinking that this book is kind of boring up till this point, but I hope it will change as I advance more into the book "The Tale of Two Cities".

A Small Sidetrack...

Today, I forgot to bring my book, "A Tale of Two Cities" from home today...
So, I have gotten the Inkblotz' first edition and read it instead. Here, the writers of Inkblotz
wrote about the sins, such as pride, temptation, etc. I could see that they could connect
the themes with the stories that they have written by themsleves. I liked the way they wrote
the short stories in a amusing kind of way so it wasn't boring like some of these literature
magazines are, or the poems which actually did make you feel somewhat connected to you
by using the story-line of those which some of us may have encountered once in your life before.
Overall, I liked the Inkblotz first edition and look forward to the second one...

First Post of 2008

This is my first post for my AR book #1, "A Tale of Two Cities."
At first, this book may seem as if it gives a pointless narative at the beginning
of the book, but as i read more and more, it acutally gave a haunting
image of a certain country that turned out to be France, during the Frence Revolution.
It gave the image of a haunting country, where poverty was very eminent for all the
citizens. But, some people, the nobles, were living in comfort, unaware or ignoring the
harsh times the common citizens were in. But as the story goes on the story focuses
more on three characters; Monsieur Mannte, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Mannete. Although I haven'y gotten very far in the book, it seems that these characters are witnesses in a crime, but
the case seems to be between three men. And this is it for now, until I get farther into the book.