Annie Chen
Period 4
A life focused on revenge causes the most pain to the avenger
Locations
Book the Second, Chapter 1 “Exceedingly red-eyed and “I’m not a-going to be made
Book the Second, Chapter 2
Book the Second, Chapter 3
Book the Second, Chapter 4
Book the Second, Chapter 5
Book the Second, Chapter 6
Book the Second, Chapter 7
Book the Second, Chapter 8
A Tale of Two Cities
Agree Disagree
grim…Jerry Cruncher unlucky by your sneaking.”
worried his breakfast rather (64) Jerry Cruncher inflicts
than ate it…” (65-66) revenge on his wife by insulting
her, causing her pain.
“…Judge in the black cap “Charles Darnay…was a
pronounced his own doom false traitor…” (71)
…” (68) The government is the avenger,
for they were causing pain to
those who went against it, like
Charles Darnay.
“Never in a debtors’ prison? “…he was kind and good,
…Yes…Not five of six? and useful to my father.”
Perhaps.” (75) (79) The governments revenge
on the rebels, made the kind
Lucie Manette have to go against
someone who had helped her.
“I began to have a very
good opinion of your
understanding” (91)
“How does it feel? Is it
worth being tried for one’s
life, to be the object of such
sympathy and compassion,
Mr. Darnay?” (90)
“…He threw himself down
in his clothes on a neglected
bed, and its pillow wet with
wasted tears” (97)
“Your way is, and always
was, a lame way. You
summon no energy and
purpose.” (95)
“…Miss Pross, the wild red “She hurries to him, and
woman, …acquaintance he they go on together,
had made at the …Hotel at walking up and down, until
Dover, and had since he is composed.” (103-104)
improved” (100)
“…disturbed by a coin “…allied himself perforce
flying into his carriage” with a Farmer-General.”
(116) (110)
“The valet had put her away “My husband died of want;
 from the door, the carriage so many die of want; so
had broken into a brisk trot, many more will die of
the postilions had want.” (122)
quickened the pace, she was
left far behind…” (122)
Book the Second, Chapter 9 “I would abandon it, and “Driven home into the heart
live otherwise and of the stone figure attached
elsewhere” (129) to it was a knife” (133)
Book the Second, Chapter “Not that sir! Let that be! I
10 adjure you, do no recall
that!” (136)
“I believe it…I had thought
so before now. I believe it.”
(138)
Book the Second, Chapter “…that you are a de-vilish
11 ill conditioned fellow in that
sort of society. You are a
disagreeable fellow.” (143)
“You don’t know the value
of money, you live hard,
you’ll knock up one of
these days, and be ill and
poor; you really ought to
think about a nurse…”
(144)
Book the Second, Chapter “You shall not put me in the “I am going to make an
12 wrong, young lady … I’ll offer of myself in marriage
do that for you.” (150) to your agreeable little
friend, Miss Manette, Mr.
Lorry.” (147)
Book the Second, Chapter “It is too late for that. I “Say of you, Miss Manette,
13 shall never be better that I and although I know better-
am. I shall sink lower and although in the mystery of
be worse.” (153) my own wretched heart I
know better – I shall never
forget it!” (153)
Book the Second, Chapter “Old Bailey spy” (158) “…for a crowd in those
14 times stopped at nothing,
and was a monster much
dreaded.” (159)
“Impelled by a laudable “…led the unfortunate
ambition to study the art woman a hard life by
and mystery of his father’s dwelling on any causes of
honest calling…” (162) complaint he could bring
against her…” (161)
Book the Second, Chapter “In the midst of them is a “Bring that rascal!” (169)
15 tall man with his arms
bound-tied to his sides-like
this!” (170)
“He knows nothing” (174) “It was additionally
disconcerting to have
madame knitting all the way
there, in a public
conveyance” (175)
Book the Second, Chapter “John Barsad…he shall be “…slowly tending towards
16 registered to-morrow” (179) that point of the compass
where the chateau of
Monsieur the Marquis, now
in his grave…” (177)
“Good day, Jacques!’ the “I believe, with all my soul,
spy repeated” (183) that we shall see triumph”
(180)
“That, after all our “…she is going to marry the
sympathy…” (186) nephew of Monsieur the
Marquis…” (185)
Book the Second, Chapter “…I should have been the “He was so deadly pale-
17 cause, and then the dark which had not been the case
part of my life would have when they went together…”
cast its shadow beyond (193)
myself, and would have
fallen on you” (189)
Book the Second, Chapter “He doesn’t know me, and
18 is making shoes” (195)
“The Doctor looked at him
for a moment-half
inquiringly, half as if he
was angry at being spoken
to-and bent over his work
again.” (195)
Book the Second, Chapter “No. It has been kept from
19 her, and I hope will always
be kept from her.” (200)
“So wicked do destruction
and secrecy appear to
honest minds, that Mr.
Lorry and Miss Pross…”
(205)
Book the Second, Chapter “Mr. Darnay…I wish we
20 might be friends…” (205)
“I think, Charles, poor Mr.
Carton deserves more
consideration and respect
 that you expressed for him
tonight.” (208)
Book the Second, Chapter “Some half-dozen times a “Mr. Stryer, exuding
21 year, at most, he claimed patronage of the most
his privilege of coming in offensive quality from ever
uninvited…” (210) pore…” (211)
“Patriots and friends, we are
ready! The Bastille!” (214)
“We can kill as well as the
men when the place is
taken!” (215)
“Pass that torch slowly
along these walls, that I may
see them” (217)
“Otherwise, the governor
would escape and the
people’s blood … be
unavenged” (218)
“Seven prisoners released,
seven gory heads on pikes,
the keys of the accursed
fortress of the eight strong
towers, some discovered
letters and other memorials
of prisoners of old time,
long dead of broken
hearts…” (219)
Book the Second, Chapter “Does everybody here recall
22 old Foulon, who told the
famished people that they
might eat grass…” (221)
“Once, he went aloft and the
rope broke, and they caught
him shrieking; then the rope
was merciful, and held him,
and his head was soon upon
a pike, with grass enough in
the moth for all Saint
Antoine to dance at the
sight of.” (223)
Book the Second, Chapter “Far and wide lay a ruined “Soon, from a score of the
23 country, yielding nothing great windows, flames burst
but desolation.” (225) forth and the stone faces
awakened, stared out of
fire” (229)
Book the Second, Chapter “Unsettled weather, a long
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Book the Third, Chapter 1 “You are an aristocrat, and
must have an escort-and
must pay for it.” (246)
Book the Third, Chapter 2
Book the Third, Chapter 3 “Yes. That she may be able
to recognize the faces and
know the persons. It is for
their safety.” (264)
Book the Third, Chapter 4
journey, uncertain means of
traveling, a disorganized
country, a city that may not
be even safe for you” (233)
“Infected with the new
doctrines…set himself in
opposition to the last
Marquis, abandoned the
estates…” (236)
“You may not understand
the gentleman” (237)
“From this prison here of
horror, whence I every hour
tend nearer and nearer to
destruction, I send you,
Monsieur heretofore the
Marquis, the assurance of
my dolorous and unhappy
service” (238-239)
“This favored the desperate
resolution Charles Darnay
had begun to make, that he
would go to Paris. “ (240)
“You are a cursed
emigrant…and you are a
cursed aristocrat!” (247)
“I will do…nothing for
you” (251)
“Of unjust treatment in
detention and hardship and
in cruel separation from his
wife and child…” (252)
“An errand of generosity
brought him here unknown
to us; he was stopped at the
barrier, and sent to prison.”
(258)
“They are…murdering the
prisoners.” (260)
“O sister-woman, think of
me. As a wife and mother!”
(261)
“It sheared off heads so
many.” (271)
“…did she know that eleven
 hundred defenseless
prisoners of both sexes and
all ages had been killed by
the populace…” (267)
Book the Third, Chapter 5 “During all that time Lucie
was never sure, from hour
to hour, but that the
Guillotine would strike off
her husband’s head next
day.” (272)
“See my saw! I call it my
Little Guillotine. La, la, la;
La, la, la! And off his head
comes!” (274)
Book the Third, Chapter 6 “Take off his head!” (280)
“He had come back, to save
a citizen’s life...” (281)
Book the Third, Chapter 7 “I have saved him” (288)
“Then,” said he of Saint
Antoine, with a strange
look, “you will be answered
to-morrow. Now, I am
dumb!” (289)
Book the Third, Chapter 8 “I admit that I am a spy...” “How dreadfully unkind in
(297) a brother nothing has ever
turned my love away from!”
(291)
Book the Third, Chapter 9 “I am glad of that. She has
such a strong attachment to
you…” (304”
“If there had been any eyes
to notice the influence of
her look on Sydney Carton,
it would have been seen to
be the same influence
exactly.” (310)
“Who and where is the false
conspirator who says that I
denounce the husband of
my child!” (311)
Book the Third, Chapter 10 “They plunder us, outrage “I was brought here, I was
us, beat us, kill us; nut we brought to my living grave.”
have a little pride left, (325)
sometimes.” (318)
“We were robbed by that
man who stands there, as all
 we common dogs are by
those superior beings-taxed
by him without mercy,
obliged to work for him
without pay…” (318)
“Save him now, my Doctor,
save him!” (326)
Book the Third, Chapter 11 “I had the strongest
assurances that I should
save him; and I did.” (329)
Book the Third, Chapter 12
Book the Third, Chapter 13
Book the Third, Chapter 14 “He may wear his head or
lose it, for any interest I
“I kiss her by you. I say
farewell to her by you.”
(327)
“For other crimes as tyrants
and oppressors, I have this
race a long time on my
register, doomed to
destruction and
extermination.” (333)
“Let me get to work. Give
me my work” (335)
“It is easy to forsee that the
pretence will be the
common one, a prison plot,
and that it will involve her
life-and perhaps her child’s-
and perhaps her father’s-for
both have been seen with
her at that place.” (337)
“from the farmer-general of
seventy, whose riches could
not buy his life, to the
seamstress of twenty, whose
poverty and obscurity could
not save her.” (339)
In every line of the narrative
he had heard, he had heard
his condemnation.” (339)
“He write a long letter to
Lucie, showing her that he
had known nothing of her
father’s imprisonment, until
he had heard of it from
herself…” (340)
“Though the just Heaven
knows I am innocent of
any.” (347)
“I know that your intentions
are evil…and you may
 have in him; it is all one to depend upon it, I’ll hold my
me.” (351) own against them.” (358)
“But, imbued from her
childhood with a brooding
sense of wrong, and an
inveterate hatred a class,
opportunity had developed
her into a tigress” (353-354)
“The wife of Evermonde;
where is she?” (357)
“As the smoke cleared,
leaving an awful stillness, it
passed out on the air, like
the soul of the furious
woman whose body lay
lifeless on the ground.”
(360)
Book the Third, Chapter 15 “Who has seen her? Therese
Defarge!” (364)
“I see lives for which I lay
down my life, peaceful,
useful, prosperous and
happy, in that England
which I shall see no more.”
(366-367)