- Fast forward through Charles and Lucie's early years of marriage: They have a daughter (Little Lucie) and a son, and interestingly, the kids both love Mr. Carton. The boy dies, but he is brave and his death isn't a completely sad event.
- The storming of the Bastille takes places in France lead by the Defarges. Madame Defarge gets a little crazy and beheads the man in charge of the Bastille with an axe.
- Monsieur Defarge searches the Bastille for 105 North Tower (the place where Dr. Manette was unjustly imprisoned for a very long time), but it doesn't seem that he finds what he is looking for after tearing the place apart.
Chapter 22
- I can't get Les Mis music out of my head after the Revolution has started. "Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men, it is the music of a people who will not be slaves again . . ." (See a great version of it here: "Do You Hear The People Sing").
- Another thought . . .mobs are scary! Not quite a riot, but they captured and killed a man who had been apathetic to their starvation (he said, "let them eat grass") . . .gross.
Chapter 23
- The residents of the town of the Marquis set his chateau on fire. There is similar unrest and burning throughout the countryside of France.
Chapter 24
- I was confronted with more things I had no idea what Dickens was talking about again. First of all, Sardanapalus, who or what is that? The book talks of the French upper-class as having Sardanapalus's luxury . . .so who is Sardanapalus? Answer: supposedly the last king of Assyria who was world-renown for his life of luxury and self-indulgence. Well, that answers that question. Next, what is a lodestone? It is stated that Charles is drawn to Paris as to a lodestone rock. A lodestone is a naturally magnetic stone that was used as a primitive compass . . .cool huh?
- Charles is determined to go to Paris . . .this can't go well, but he must go to protect his servant who worked at the Marquis chateau who who has now been thrown into prison.
Thus ends the second section of "A Tale of Two Cities". What do you think is going to happen next?
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