1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?
- Author’s perspective is limited to his own experience, and the tone of Night is therefore intensely personal, subjective, and intimate. Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or, sad, to experience anger or fear?
- The story is tragic and frightening. The part that Nazi army treat prisoners, Jews, with cruelty make me feel bad, angry, and frightened. I was wondering how people can treat other people like in very cruel and brutal ways.
3. What is the author's attitude towards characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the character or the narrator?
- As a survivor of the Holocaust, as an author, and as a main character, Eelie Wiesel, has to reevaluate God in his world. He does so through is writings, in which he questions God and tells us of the answers, or lack of answers, that he receives.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Night - Symbolism Questionnaries
1. What are some of the symbols in the story?
- There are three symbols in the story, Night, Fire, and Silence.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
- Night is used throughout the book to symbolize death, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith. As an image, it comes up repeatedly. Fire or flames are used to symbolize hell. It has become a tool of the wicked to punish the righteous. It emphasizes Wiesel's belief that God has abandoned his people.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
- Eliezer's father act as symbol in the story. He act not just as his father but spiritual prop. His father shows the importance of father-son bonds.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
- Aspects of the story's settings doesn't seem symbolic, but the in side of the story, when you read over and over again it give a moral and symbolic ideas.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
- Three symbols, night, fire, and silence, stays altogether. Fire appears throughout Night as a symbol of the Nazis’ cruel power. The Bible begins with God’s creation of the earth. When God first begins his creation, the earth was full of darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.
- There are three symbols in the story, Night, Fire, and Silence.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
- Night is used throughout the book to symbolize death, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith. As an image, it comes up repeatedly. Fire or flames are used to symbolize hell. It has become a tool of the wicked to punish the righteous. It emphasizes Wiesel's belief that God has abandoned his people.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
- Eliezer's father act as symbol in the story. He act not just as his father but spiritual prop. His father shows the importance of father-son bonds.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
- Aspects of the story's settings doesn't seem symbolic, but the in side of the story, when you read over and over again it give a moral and symbolic ideas.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
- Three symbols, night, fire, and silence, stays altogether. Fire appears throughout Night as a symbol of the Nazis’ cruel power. The Bible begins with God’s creation of the earth. When God first begins his creation, the earth was full of darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Night - Imagery Questionnaries
1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
- Every scenes that appears in the story is concentraion camps that the main character stays and spend time. Night does not operate like a novel, using foreshadowing to hint at surprises to come. The pall of tragedy hangs over the entire novel, however.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
- The part that Nazi army treat prisoners, Jews, with cruelty make me feel bad, angry, and frightened. I was wondering how people can treat other people like in very cruel and brutal ways.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What did you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the authorwants you feel about a certain image?
- Every single scene that author wrote about the cruel-treatment I could sense the brutality of humanbeing, however, Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
- As a reconstruction of the author's ego at a crucial moment in world history, Night demonstrates the narrator's willingness to face certain death and to cling to the shreds of sanity that remain.
- Every scenes that appears in the story is concentraion camps that the main character stays and spend time. Night does not operate like a novel, using foreshadowing to hint at surprises to come. The pall of tragedy hangs over the entire novel, however.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
- The part that Nazi army treat prisoners, Jews, with cruelty make me feel bad, angry, and frightened. I was wondering how people can treat other people like in very cruel and brutal ways.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What did you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the authorwants you feel about a certain image?
- Every single scene that author wrote about the cruel-treatment I could sense the brutality of humanbeing, however, Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
- As a reconstruction of the author's ego at a crucial moment in world history, Night demonstrates the narrator's willingness to face certain death and to cling to the shreds of sanity that remain.
Night - Point of View Questionnaries
1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspefctive, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in t he events of the story?
- Eliezer speaks in the first person and always relates the autobiographical events from his perspective.
2. What are the advatages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
- The advantage of story telling as the first-person perspective, we can get how the main character feels and thinks in the story specifically.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understading of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
- The narrator of story is reliable, because he narrator is the main character itself, and the main character is the author himself. And the story of the book comes from the real circumstances. So the narrator tells every single feeling how he felt in every situation he experience.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
- The author use the point of view primarily to reveal, because the purpose of this book is to reveal the act of barbarity and impeach Nazi for their brutalities.
- Eliezer speaks in the first person and always relates the autobiographical events from his perspective.
2. What are the advatages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
- The advantage of story telling as the first-person perspective, we can get how the main character feels and thinks in the story specifically.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understading of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
- The narrator of story is reliable, because he narrator is the main character itself, and the main character is the author himself. And the story of the book comes from the real circumstances. So the narrator tells every single feeling how he felt in every situation he experience.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
- The author use the point of view primarily to reveal, because the purpose of this book is to reveal the act of barbarity and impeach Nazi for their brutalities.
Night - Character Questionnaries
1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
- Eliezer is the main character of this story. He is a jews and looks very ill becuase of cruel treatment from German soldiers.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
- Eliezer is an introspective teenager, Elie first begins to hate when Hungarian police strike out with billy clubs and force Jews from their homes. At Auschwitz's Block 17, he berates himself for being a spoiled child and rejecting his first plate of prison soup. Eliezer lives in the prison with his father and many other Jews prisoners in the jail. Each of them support all of the people and be hope for each other.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (peronality traits) of the character?
- Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. It is important to note that we learn Eliezer’s last name only in passing, and that it is never repeated. The main character interact very well with other characters.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army.
5. Is any character a develoing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
- The developing character is the main character itself. As the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.
- Eliezer is the main character of this story. He is a jews and looks very ill becuase of cruel treatment from German soldiers.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
- Eliezer is an introspective teenager, Elie first begins to hate when Hungarian police strike out with billy clubs and force Jews from their homes. At Auschwitz's Block 17, he berates himself for being a spoiled child and rejecting his first plate of prison soup. Eliezer lives in the prison with his father and many other Jews prisoners in the jail. Each of them support all of the people and be hope for each other.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (peronality traits) of the character?
- Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. It is important to note that we learn Eliezer’s last name only in passing, and that it is never repeated. The main character interact very well with other characters.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army.
5. Is any character a develoing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
- The developing character is the main character itself. As the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Night - Setting Questionnaries
1. Place: the geographical location of the story.
- The story begins in Sighet, Transylvania (part of Romania), and it also take place in several concentration camps in Europe: Auschwitz (Poland), Buna (camp that is part of the Auschwitz complex), Gleiwitz (Poland), and Buchenwald (Germany).
2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the event of the story occur.
- The time setting of this story is between 1941~1845, during World War II.
3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class).
- In the story, there are only two classes, Officers and the prisoner or victims. The location of most characters are prisoners and only few of them are soldiers and doctor.
- The story begins in Sighet, Transylvania (part of Romania), and it also take place in several concentration camps in Europe: Auschwitz (Poland), Buna (camp that is part of the Auschwitz complex), Gleiwitz (Poland), and Buchenwald (Germany).
2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the event of the story occur.
- The time setting of this story is between 1941~1845, during World War II.
3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class).
- In the story, there are only two classes, Officers and the prisoner or victims. The location of most characters are prisoners and only few of them are soldiers and doctor.
Night - Plot Questionnaries
1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
- This story is about the Holocaust and the way in which one young Jewish boy struggles to stay alive and stay sane as he lives through the ordeal of the concentration camps. The major event of this story is when the protagonist struggle with the Nazi's persecution, and having his own faith in God and in humanity. The story and the main event related by the Jewish boy having a hard time staying in the Nazi's concentration camp and suffers there.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
- The main events are arranged in chronologically way. Not even main events but every stages and the scenes are written in order, so the story can be flow naturally and smooth.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
- The story, Night is narrated by the protagonist, Eliezer. In the story, there are summary, story, symbols, and foreshadowing. Symbols and the foreshadowing represents something in the story and it help the readers to understand and to make people feel pity for the characters in the story.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
- The plot of the Night goes with the fast-paced, however, even its flows with the fast-pace, the story tells us the whole story and we could able to understand it.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and action of characters move the plot forward?
- Characters' beliefs against their God and the values help them to be endure. As the story goes and goes by, the importance of the family bond shown in the story.
6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army. The good and the evil are sharply differentiated.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
- The climax of the story is the death of Eliezer's father. This happens three month ahead before the concentration camp become liberated. The story ends with the happy ending.
8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
- The unity of this story is family and the bond between prisoners. All the episodes are relevant to the total meaning of the story, and it each of the incident grows logically out of the preceding incident and it leads naturally to the next story.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
- Author use the symbol and the foreshadowing idea to make the chance and coincidence. Those ideas are used to tells and resolve the story. It cannot be improbable, because the story is based on the facts and the real events that happens during the World War II.
- This story is about the Holocaust and the way in which one young Jewish boy struggles to stay alive and stay sane as he lives through the ordeal of the concentration camps. The major event of this story is when the protagonist struggle with the Nazi's persecution, and having his own faith in God and in humanity. The story and the main event related by the Jewish boy having a hard time staying in the Nazi's concentration camp and suffers there.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
- The main events are arranged in chronologically way. Not even main events but every stages and the scenes are written in order, so the story can be flow naturally and smooth.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
- The story, Night is narrated by the protagonist, Eliezer. In the story, there are summary, story, symbols, and foreshadowing. Symbols and the foreshadowing represents something in the story and it help the readers to understand and to make people feel pity for the characters in the story.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
- The plot of the Night goes with the fast-paced, however, even its flows with the fast-pace, the story tells us the whole story and we could able to understand it.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and action of characters move the plot forward?
- Characters' beliefs against their God and the values help them to be endure. As the story goes and goes by, the importance of the family bond shown in the story.
6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army. The good and the evil are sharply differentiated.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
- The climax of the story is the death of Eliezer's father. This happens three month ahead before the concentration camp become liberated. The story ends with the happy ending.
8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
- The unity of this story is family and the bond between prisoners. All the episodes are relevant to the total meaning of the story, and it each of the incident grows logically out of the preceding incident and it leads naturally to the next story.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
- Author use the symbol and the foreshadowing idea to make the chance and coincidence. Those ideas are used to tells and resolve the story. It cannot be improbable, because the story is based on the facts and the real events that happens during the World War II.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities: Reflection
I've always willing to read Charles Dickens and I finally took the chance to read through A Tale of Two Cities-which my friend recommended to me. Even though Dickens is using so many metaphors, which I mostly did not understand, and even his English was really old and hard, that cannot be any obstacles for understanding this book. By reading this book helps me reflect on my life and it taught me one main lesson, LOVE.
Ultimately, "A Tale of Two Cities" is about SACRIFICE, and that is the reason why I love the character of Sydney Carton. Anyway, I admire Carton because of his udying love for Lucie Manette, even though he will never be with her because she chose Charles Darnay, who happens to look like Sydney Carton. Both people are completely different from each other, almost opposites. On one hand, you have Charles, who seems young and perfect and happy. On the other hand, you have Sydney Carton, the depressed drunck who has a negative outlook on life from being neglected.
Despite his negativity, Carton still loves Lucie and will do anything for her, just to make her happy. The man switches places with her imprisoned husband who is going to be executed. Carton knows that Lucie would be miserable if Darnay was beheaded by Guillotine, so he takes his place and makes the ultimate sacrifice. Without his love towards Lucie, he could never make that kind of decision. Because he loves her, he sacrifices himself.
All in all, I suggest reading "A Tale of Two Cities." Even though I was forced, I would read it again. The only disclaimer I have is to read it carefully and pay attention to all the metaphors. And I better read it more than once so I can find all the foreshadowing.
Good thing I have my own copy of the book besides the the one I borrow from school library. Then I can read it as many times as I want.
Ultimately, "A Tale of Two Cities" is about SACRIFICE, and that is the reason why I love the character of Sydney Carton. Anyway, I admire Carton because of his udying love for Lucie Manette, even though he will never be with her because she chose Charles Darnay, who happens to look like Sydney Carton. Both people are completely different from each other, almost opposites. On one hand, you have Charles, who seems young and perfect and happy. On the other hand, you have Sydney Carton, the depressed drunck who has a negative outlook on life from being neglected.
Despite his negativity, Carton still loves Lucie and will do anything for her, just to make her happy. The man switches places with her imprisoned husband who is going to be executed. Carton knows that Lucie would be miserable if Darnay was beheaded by Guillotine, so he takes his place and makes the ultimate sacrifice. Without his love towards Lucie, he could never make that kind of decision. Because he loves her, he sacrifices himself.
All in all, I suggest reading "A Tale of Two Cities." Even though I was forced, I would read it again. The only disclaimer I have is to read it carefully and pay attention to all the metaphors. And I better read it more than once so I can find all the foreshadowing.
Good thing I have my own copy of the book besides the the one I borrow from school library. Then I can read it as many times as I want.
A Tale of Two Cities: Main Characters
Describing the goals, dreams, and motives behind a main characters:
Charles Darnay is a French aristocrat by birth, and he chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system. Darnay displays great virtue in his rejection of the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle, the Marquis Evremonde. He exhibits a admirable honesty in his decision to reveal to Dr. Manette his true identity as a member of the infamous Evremonde family. So, to prove his courage in his decision to return to Paris at great personal risk to save the imprisoned Gabelle.
Sydney Carton was a alcoholic lawyer who works with Stryver. Carton has no real prospects in life and doesn't seem to be in interested to any. However, fall in love with Lucie, and his feelings for her eventually transform him into a prospective man. At first, you will think that Carton has opposite situations and personality, but in the end Carton morally overcome the man to whom he bears a striking physical resemblance.
Lucie Manette is a young French woman who grew up in England, she was raised as a helper of Tellson's Bank because her parents were known as to be dead. Her love has the power to hind her family together, in the book often called her as the "golden thread." Futhermore, her love has the power to transform those around her. It enables her father to be "recalled to life," and it sparks Carton's development from a "jackal" into a hero.
Dr. Manette is Lucie's father, he was imprisoned for 19-years as a prisoner in the Bastille. In the beginning of the book, he does nothing but make shoes, a hobby that he adopted to distract himself form the tortures of prison. As he overcomes his past, he proves to be a loving father who prizes his daughter's happiness above all things.
Charles Darnay is a French aristocrat by birth, and he chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system. Darnay displays great virtue in his rejection of the snobbish and cruel values of his uncle, the Marquis Evremonde. He exhibits a admirable honesty in his decision to reveal to Dr. Manette his true identity as a member of the infamous Evremonde family. So, to prove his courage in his decision to return to Paris at great personal risk to save the imprisoned Gabelle.
Sydney Carton was a alcoholic lawyer who works with Stryver. Carton has no real prospects in life and doesn't seem to be in interested to any. However, fall in love with Lucie, and his feelings for her eventually transform him into a prospective man. At first, you will think that Carton has opposite situations and personality, but in the end Carton morally overcome the man to whom he bears a striking physical resemblance.
Lucie Manette is a young French woman who grew up in England, she was raised as a helper of Tellson's Bank because her parents were known as to be dead. Her love has the power to hind her family together, in the book often called her as the "golden thread." Futhermore, her love has the power to transform those around her. It enables her father to be "recalled to life," and it sparks Carton's development from a "jackal" into a hero.
Dr. Manette is Lucie's father, he was imprisoned for 19-years as a prisoner in the Bastille. In the beginning of the book, he does nothing but make shoes, a hobby that he adopted to distract himself form the tortures of prison. As he overcomes his past, he proves to be a loving father who prizes his daughter's happiness above all things.
Monday, December 3, 2012
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities: Cover Page
Four Events: 1. Mr. Lorry getting a letter that has "Recalled to Life" written on it.
2. Lucie finds her father, Dr. Manette, who was Shoemaker.
3. Charles Darnay get convicted.
4. Carton sacrifice himself to save his love, Lucie, and her family.
2. Lucie finds her father, Dr. Manette, who was Shoemaker.
3. Charles Darnay get convicted.
4. Carton sacrifice himself to save his love, Lucie, and her family.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities: Summary #4
BOOK 3: THE TRACK OF A STORM
The French Revolution breaks out in all its fury with the storming of the Bastille, which was lead by Monsieur Defarge.
Charles come back to France from England, but he finds that things are very different from when he left. As he gets closer to Paris, Charles start to be concerned as prisoner, though he has done nothing, and soldiers take him to Monsieur Defarge. Charles asks Defarge for help but he refuses, and Defarge secretly jails Charles.
Chapter 1-15 (p.g. 303-462)
The French Revolution breaks out in all its fury with the storming of the Bastille, which was lead by Monsieur Defarge.
Charles come back to France from England, but he finds that things are very different from when he left. As he gets closer to Paris, Charles start to be concerned as prisoner, though he has done nothing, and soldiers take him to Monsieur Defarge. Charles asks Defarge for help but he refuses, and Defarge secretly jails Charles.
The King and Queen of France are headed by guillotine, and as time goes by, they cannot seem to get Charles freed. After a while, Carton tells to Mr. Lorry that is Charles is found guilty, he will smuggle into Charles's cell, and Carton tell Lorry not to tell Lucie about the plan. Carton visits a pharmacy and buy mysterious packet of drugs that the chemist warns. During Charles's trial, the court was in chaos, because they have found a letter hidden in the chimney, which was at Dr. Manette's old cell.
As the crowd celebrates Charles's conviction in the streets, John Barsad, who is taking Charles back to his jail, he lets Lucie meet her husband for the last time. Charles says farewell and asks her to kiss their daughter. Lucie faints, and her daughter begs Carton for help. He hugs her, and before he leaves, he kisses unconscious Lucie and whisphers, "A life you love." Then he says farewell, blesses Lucie, and leaves.
In the prison, Charles was waiting for his execution date. Charles writes a final letter to Lucie. Suddenly John Barsad opens the jail door and lets in Carton. Carton tells Charles to change his clothes with him. Then Carton waves the packet of drugs under his nose, and Charles passes out. Barsad carries Charles, now disguised as Carton, back to Mr. Lorry. One of a young woman, which is also innocent prisoner, realizes that he is not Charles, and she askes, "Are you dying for him?" "And his wife and child," Carton replies.
Charles and his family flees back to England while Carton sacrifices his life for him. Three carts rumble through the Paris streets carrying the prisoners to the guillotine. There were full of spectators to see Charles Darnay. The young woman is going to beheaded before Carton. When her time comes, they kiss, and she goes to the guillotine. After her execution, it's Carton's turn. He says "I am the resurrection and the life." Carton stands on the platform, and the guillotine crashes down on his head.
As the crowd celebrates Charles's conviction in the streets, John Barsad, who is taking Charles back to his jail, he lets Lucie meet her husband for the last time. Charles says farewell and asks her to kiss their daughter. Lucie faints, and her daughter begs Carton for help. He hugs her, and before he leaves, he kisses unconscious Lucie and whisphers, "A life you love." Then he says farewell, blesses Lucie, and leaves.
In the prison, Charles was waiting for his execution date. Charles writes a final letter to Lucie. Suddenly John Barsad opens the jail door and lets in Carton. Carton tells Charles to change his clothes with him. Then Carton waves the packet of drugs under his nose, and Charles passes out. Barsad carries Charles, now disguised as Carton, back to Mr. Lorry. One of a young woman, which is also innocent prisoner, realizes that he is not Charles, and she askes, "Are you dying for him?" "And his wife and child," Carton replies.
Charles and his family flees back to England while Carton sacrifices his life for him. Three carts rumble through the Paris streets carrying the prisoners to the guillotine. There were full of spectators to see Charles Darnay. The young woman is going to beheaded before Carton. When her time comes, they kiss, and she goes to the guillotine. After her execution, it's Carton's turn. He says "I am the resurrection and the life." Carton stands on the platform, and the guillotine crashes down on his head.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities: Summary #3
BOOK 2: THE GOLDEN THREAD
Chapter 5-24 (p.g. 104-301)
Years pass, and both Darnay and Carton fall in love with Ms. Lucie. Carton was a lawyer who spend his life with drinking. But first, Carton denies about his feeling by describing her, "blond doll." However, he start realize the love against Ms. Lucie.
Four months after the trial, Lorry have a dinner with Manette family. After the dinner, Dr. Manette and Lucie went out from the house, Lorry start to talks with Ms. Pross, who comments on and dismisses all the suitors who constantly call on Lucie. She said that her brother, Solomon Pross, is only guy that perfectly matches to Lucie. Lorry didn't say about about it even he knows the true personality of him. Later on, Mr. Carton also comes to the party.
The story begins with Marquis, a strong, powerful, and rich French Noble. He only cares about his power. He gains and satisfy with the power which he take it from the peasants. A little girl was runs over and killed by a carriage, but the owner of the carriage, Marquis the Noble, scolds the people who didn't take care about their children, and he tosses a gold coin to them.
After Marquis returns to his house, the trouble he made was spread to the whole village and through the country. One day, Marquis was drive passing a graveyard and suddenly one woman jumped out and asking him for help. But he ignore the woman and drives away.
At his castle, Marquis was waiting for his nephew, Charles Darnay, which is coming from London. Charles tells to Marquis that he support the new philosophy, which is Enlightenment thinking, but Marquis scoffs at Charles' idea and tell him to accept the natural destiny and go to bed.
A year passes, and now Charles is living at London working as French teacher, and Charles also went to visit Dr. Manette. During the visit, Charles tells him that he's in love with Lucie, and Charles also tells him that he is not gonna separate them and keep them as close as he can, and Dr. Manette agrees with that.
Outside of Tellson's Bank, Jerry sees a funeral going on. An angry crowd were shouting "Spies" to the dead man, Roger Cly. Jerry come back to home and he scold his wife about her praying again. At night, Jerry went to the graveyard that Roger Cly is buried and start to dig his gave. Then he fishes his dead body. He was a grave robber.
Lucie Manette marries with Charles Darnay.
Chapter 5-24 (p.g. 104-301)
Years pass, and both Darnay and Carton fall in love with Ms. Lucie. Carton was a lawyer who spend his life with drinking. But first, Carton denies about his feeling by describing her, "blond doll." However, he start realize the love against Ms. Lucie.
Four months after the trial, Lorry have a dinner with Manette family. After the dinner, Dr. Manette and Lucie went out from the house, Lorry start to talks with Ms. Pross, who comments on and dismisses all the suitors who constantly call on Lucie. She said that her brother, Solomon Pross, is only guy that perfectly matches to Lucie. Lorry didn't say about about it even he knows the true personality of him. Later on, Mr. Carton also comes to the party.
The story begins with Marquis, a strong, powerful, and rich French Noble. He only cares about his power. He gains and satisfy with the power which he take it from the peasants. A little girl was runs over and killed by a carriage, but the owner of the carriage, Marquis the Noble, scolds the people who didn't take care about their children, and he tosses a gold coin to them.
After Marquis returns to his house, the trouble he made was spread to the whole village and through the country. One day, Marquis was drive passing a graveyard and suddenly one woman jumped out and asking him for help. But he ignore the woman and drives away.
At his castle, Marquis was waiting for his nephew, Charles Darnay, which is coming from London. Charles tells to Marquis that he support the new philosophy, which is Enlightenment thinking, but Marquis scoffs at Charles' idea and tell him to accept the natural destiny and go to bed.
A year passes, and now Charles is living at London working as French teacher, and Charles also went to visit Dr. Manette. During the visit, Charles tells him that he's in love with Lucie, and Charles also tells him that he is not gonna separate them and keep them as close as he can, and Dr. Manette agrees with that.
Outside of Tellson's Bank, Jerry sees a funeral going on. An angry crowd were shouting "Spies" to the dead man, Roger Cly. Jerry come back to home and he scold his wife about her praying again. At night, Jerry went to the graveyard that Roger Cly is buried and start to dig his gave. Then he fishes his dead body. He was a grave robber.
Lucie Manette marries with Charles Darnay.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities: Summary #2
BOOK ONE: RECALLED TO LIFE
When he arrives at the bank, the secretary tells Jerry to go down to the courthouse, the Old Baily, and wait for Mr. Lorry. The secretary gives him one message that he supposed to give it to Mr. Lorry. When he arrives to the Old Baily, there were large amount of spectators has gathered outside of it to see someone. Inside the court, there was a serious criminal there call, Charles Darnay.
The prisoner, Charles Darnay, has been accused of being a traitor to George III, king of England. He's job was to get the information that what forces the English have to send to Canada, but he sell the secret information of England to France. However, he has decide to put more loyalty to his country than his friend. Lucie was testified by the detective about the prisoner, and she say that first time she meet Darnay was five years ago, when she was crossing the England to France.
After the judgement, Charles Darnay have found out his innocence and everyone congratulate for that, and he fall in love with Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie Manette. Darnay kiss her hand and her father saw that. Dr. Manette start to look at Darnay with dislike eyes. Mr. Carton also dislike him because he was too attracted to Lucie.
Chapter 6 (p.g. 49-61)
The shoemaker is dressed in tatters. When Defarge asks him his name, he answer "One Hundred and Five, North Tower." Mr. Lorry then asks the shoemaker if he recognizes anyone. The shoemaker seems thinking very carefully, but his face quickly changes. Lucie walk closer to the shoemaker. He asks who she is. Noticing her blond hair, he removes a necklace he is wearing and reveals a scrap of paper containing some golden hair, it was his wife's hair, he was imprison for many years. The shoemaker was Luice's father, Dr. Manette.BOOK TWO: THE GOLDEN THREAD
Chapter 1-4 (p.g. 63-103)
Tellson's Bank is situated by Temple Bar. It was an old-fashioned, small, and ugly building. Employees that are working in the bank are old men, and they were very conservative. In this chapter, Jerry Cruncher is at home lying in bed. He is angry with his wife and throwing his boot at her shouting that her prayers are like a curses to him and his son. After that, he has been called to the bank by one of the bank's messengers.When he arrives at the bank, the secretary tells Jerry to go down to the courthouse, the Old Baily, and wait for Mr. Lorry. The secretary gives him one message that he supposed to give it to Mr. Lorry. When he arrives to the Old Baily, there were large amount of spectators has gathered outside of it to see someone. Inside the court, there was a serious criminal there call, Charles Darnay.
The prisoner, Charles Darnay, has been accused of being a traitor to George III, king of England. He's job was to get the information that what forces the English have to send to Canada, but he sell the secret information of England to France. However, he has decide to put more loyalty to his country than his friend. Lucie was testified by the detective about the prisoner, and she say that first time she meet Darnay was five years ago, when she was crossing the England to France.
After the judgement, Charles Darnay have found out his innocence and everyone congratulate for that, and he fall in love with Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie Manette. Darnay kiss her hand and her father saw that. Dr. Manette start to look at Darnay with dislike eyes. Mr. Carton also dislike him because he was too attracted to Lucie.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities: Summary #1
Book One: Recalled to Life
Chapter 1~5 (p.g. 4 - 48)
The narrator begins the story in the year 1775 with the sentence, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and it conclude that what is going to happen in this story.
The year is 1775 and settings are London and Paris, two lands are ruled by monarchs. England is on the brink of the American Revolution. The French Revolution seems unavoidable, and the spirit of rebellion silently infecting the countryside. Similar problems are common across England, with increase of highway robberies and thievery were reaching all the way into high society.
Mr. Jarvis Lorry, a confidential clerk at Tellson's Bank of London, is on his way to Dover in a mail coach. The coachman and his passengers fears about highway robberies. Jerry Cruncher, odd-job-man who work for Tellson's Bank, stops the Dover mail coach with an urgent message for Mr. Lorry, giving him a paper message and tell him to wait at Dover for young woman, Mam'selle, and Lorry responds with the mysterious words, "recalled to life."
Mr. Lorry was taking nap in the coach, imagining the comforting environment of Tellson's Bank. He dream about a man who has been buried for eighteen years and has dug his way out, and that man has been buried for eighteen years.
When Mr. Lorry arrive in Dover, he checks into a hotel and went to have breakfast. He ask employee for the room for a woman who is coming to meet him.While he's having a dinner, the waiter came to tell him that Ms. Lucie Manette, which is Mam'selle, has arrive here and willing to meet him. She tells Mr. Lorry that he have to escort her to Paris because of her father's death. But her father was alive.
The setting change Dover, England to Saint Antoine, a poor suburb of Paris. One of a wine cask falls to the street and everyone rushed to drink it, but there was one man dips his finger into muddy wine-less and scrawls the word BLOOD on a wall. Mr. Lorry was displease by Dr. Manette is locked in.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Spectator Sport: My House
My room is a big square-like room next to the
living room. The other rooms are opposite my room. When every family member
goes to bed in his or her room at night, it becomes a quiet serene place where
i can concentrate on my study. Inside the room, all other things in the room look
new but the wallpaper has lost its hilarious color. That is because we have
lived for almost 5 years already. You can see a aggrandize space with only
little furniture when you enter my private room. The first thing you can notice
on the right is my secretly locked laptop on its desk. I got the archaic
computer desk for free when I came to this house. Now it is partly covered with
dirt. Across from it, there is a walnut bookshelf full of books. it is newly
bought to take care of books piled up high in my room. It's still has enough
space for books and there is a antique closet right next to it.
My favorite place in my house is my lovely
garden. Last summer, my family worked intrepidly together for a month to change normal
land into fabulous garden. The place always used to be the messiest, ugliest, and cliched
place carelessly stacked up with all multifarious stuffs we haven't used for a while
but is still good enough to use. Now it has totally changed from a wild land to
a lovely place ever. Along the exorbitant garden thee is a deep brown colored
wooden fence stands that my dad made by himself. I like them because they show
the texture of the wood so well. On the back row of the garden, there are small
tiny little trees. I hope that we live here for long time, taking care of the
place.
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