Chapter 1: In Secret“No Hope of Return”Charles travels towards Paris, but he keeps

encountering citizen-patriots with national muskets who were cross examining everyone they inspected and their papers. It was a dangerous time…

Quiz Book 3 Chapter 11. What does Charles keep showing the citizen-patriots to

allow him to get further into France?2. Charles is finally taken under “protection” and delivered to

where?3. They remark that Charles’s life is not his own because, on

August 14th the day he left England, there was a decree passed that did what?

4. Once there, they question Charles and ask how old he is. How old is he?

5. Do you emigrants have rights?6. When Charles asks Defarge to help get word to Mr. Lorry,

what is Defarge’s response?7. Who was the “sharp female newly born”?8. Charles is at La Force “in secret.” Who else was held in

prison “in secret”?9. Charles asks to buy what as they take him to his cell?10. Charles paces his cell at the end of chapter. Who is his

cellmate?

A Tale of Two CitiesBook III, Chapter 2The Grindstone

Tellson’s in FranceTellson’s Bank in France occupies a

section of an immense home that once belonged to Monseigneur. With warnings of revolution, he fled the country in his cook’s clothing.

A ContrastTellson’s in France differs significantly from the Tellson’s in England. The French establishment boasts mirrors, young clerks and spontaneous dancing in the streets. Despite these contrasts,

the bank thrives in France as well.

Recall the description of Tellson’s in Book I. How does it contrast the description provided above?

AbandonmentLorry is horrified by the numerous accounts and

valuables stored in Tellson’s with no credible owner, either due to imprisonment or death.

As a dedicated employee of Tellson’s, Lorry lodges at the bank to secure the aristocracy’s valuables.

IronyLorry takes notice of the grindstone outside of Tellson’s and comments, “Thank God that no

one that I care deeply about is in this awful city tonight,” clasping his hands. “May God have mercy on all those who are in danger!”

Why are Lorry’s words ironic?

Later that evening…The door at Tellson’s suddenly opens and Lucie and Dr. Manette rush in.

Lorry is baffled by their presence. Why have Lucie and her father travelled to France?

CommunicationLucie reports that Charles arrived in

France three days earlier to fulfill a commitment. Shortly after his arrival he was imprisoned. Lorry immediately processes the severity of the situation.

AdviceLorry asks to speak to Manette

alone and informs him that he must act if they hope to spare Darnay’s life. He advises Manette to use his influence in France to enter the LaForce prison?

What influence does the doctor have?

The GrindstoneThe grindstone is situated outside

Tellson’s. Peasants work tirelessly, grinding the blood stained guillotine blade . “Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. “

They are,” Mr. Lorry whispered the words, glancing fearfully round at the locked room, “murdering the prisoners.

A Welcoming ReceptionManette walks the courtyard and within moments the peasants

cry, ”Live the Bastille prisoner! Help for the Bastille prisoner’s kindred in La

Force! Room for the Bastille prisoner in front there! Save the prisoner

Evremonde at La Force!” and a thousand answering shouts.

Why is Manette treated in this way?

CompanionsLorry attempts to console Lucie, learning the little Lucie

and Pross have accompanied the doctor and Lucie on their journey.

What is the danger of travelling with many people? At what other point in the novel was this a concern? Is it possible that this may be a concern later in the

novel? Consider all the characters in France at this point.

A Warning“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away. “

What other scenes parallels the one described above?Recall the first chapter of the novel. Dickens writes to warn the English of potential revolt. What is Dicken’s perception of revolution and the impact it has on a country’s people?

Summarizer: Chapter 21. What’s ironic about the fake that Mr. Lorry says, “No

one dear to me is in this town.”2. There was a usual hum coming from the city. What is

constantly going on?3. How did Lucie and Dr. Manette manage to get all the

way to Paris in these dangerous times?4. Everyone working the grindstone has one thing in

common. Each one had what on them?5. What is in the courtyard of Tellson’s. 6. Why do the patriots agree to help Dr. Manette?7. At the end of the chapter, Dickens writes “the sun

was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.” What is the significance of this?

CHAPTER 3: THE SHADOW

Mr. Lorry realizes in the morning that he is “sheltering the prisoner under the Bank roof,” which could endanger Tellson’s. He would give his life for Lucie and her family, but he was not willing to risk the trust that Tellson’s had put in him– “strict man of business”

Who does Mr. Lorry think of at first to send Lucie?

Then, he remembers that Defarge “lived in the most violent Quarter, and doubtless was influential there, and deep in its dangerous workings.”

Instead, what does he do with Lucie? Who does he leave with her?

Mr. Lorry spends the day at the bank, but, when the bank closes, he ponders what do next. Who interrupted his thoughts?

Defarge walks in with a message from Dr. Manette to Lucie:“Charles is safe, but I cannot safely leave this place yet. I have obtained the favour that the bearer has a short note from Charles to his wife. Let the bearer see his wife.”

Why wouldn’t Mr. Lorry refer to anyone, but Charles by their name?

Why does Defarge say he wants Darnay to meet Lorry?

Who were the two women?

Madame Defarge visits Lucie, Miss Pross, and Little Lucie

“The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed so threatening and dark on the child, that her mother instinctively kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast”

Who is the “shadow attendant on Madame Defarge”? Why would Lucie hold her daughter so close?

“You will be good to my poor husband. You will do him no harm. You will help me to see him if you can?”

What does Lucie ask of Madame Defarge?

Madame Defarge says “Your husband is not my business here.” Do we believe she is there to help Lucie?

What does Madame Defarge think when Lucie says to be kind to her husband for her child’s sake because “We are more afraid of you than of these others”?

Lucie keeps asking for help, saying “I implore you to have pity on me and not to exercise any power that you possess against my innocent husband, but to use it in his behalf. O sister-woman, think of me. As a wife and mother.”Madame Defarge responds coldly that they have witnessed enough wives and mother suffering and their children.

All our lives we have seen our sister-women suffer, in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression, and neglect of all kinds…

Madame Defarge scoffs with the Vengeance, “It is likely that the trouble of one wife and mother be much to us now?”

Questions to Consider:What has Madame Defarge been doing while

“visiting” Lucie?”Why does Mr. Lorry say Madame Defarge is

there?Do you believe that this is the real reason?

Why or why not?

Mr. Lorry exclaims to Lucie, “Courage, courage!....Cheer up, and have a thankful heart.”Lucie however replies, “I am not thankless, I hope, but that dreadful woman seems to throw a shadow on me and on all my hopes.”

Make a prediction: What do you think is going to happen?What is Dickens foreshadowing here?