Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Question/Answer: A Tale of Two Cities

1. Which two cities are being compared/contrasted throughout the novel?
Paris(setting in France) and London(setting in England)

2.How is Religion(Christianity) demonstrated as important in the book?
Some of the cruel punishments that were described for not kneeling down to the monks that were fifty or sixty yards away, such as: having his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive.

3. Why is the messenger being conflicted during his journey of delivering the message to the Banking-house near the Temple Bar?
He is aware that there may be some money in some of the mail that he carries and he has a desire for it, but at the same time he is confused by the message that was sent to him that talked about death.

4.Why is Mr. Lorry (the passenger) being treated with so much delicacy at the hotel he stayed in?
The workers know that he has traveled a long distance to get a message to an important bank.

5. Who is Miss Manette?
She was a girl that was taken to England by Mr. Lorry (trustee) after she was left as an orphan when both her parents died.

6. What has Mr. Lorry convinced himself of Miss Manette's situation?
He insists that everything he did, for the child and with his father was because of business.

7. Who was the ghost that Mr. Lorry had been dreaming about?
Mr. Manette, who was found after many years of being pronounced dead.

8. What is Mr. Lorry planning on doing?
He wants to go back to France and take Miss Manette so that he can recognize the body and that she could give some hope of bringing him back to life.

9. Why didn't Mrs. Manette tell her daughter that her father wasn't dead, just not known of?
She didn't want her daughter to suffer at the thought that her dad may be out somewhere still alive and in pain.

10. What was the last detail that Mr Lorry told Miss Manette?
That her father was found but with a different name.







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