A Tale of Two Cities ch. 5-8

Summary: Daraney returns to trial in France, with his worried family is there to support him. Manette, knowing of the prisons there, tells his daughter to stand outside Barneys window so he could see her. She does so and encounters many people: a man with an axe, and a large group of revolutionists dancing in the streets by her. In the next chapter the trial couldn't have gone better, with the help from Manette, Daraney is taken home, for he tells of his stance in the whole aristocracy/peasant disagreement and the crowd seemed to love that about him. However everything takes turn the next day, as soldiers return to Darneys home to arrest him again. When Manette asks who accused Darany, he is told that it is the Defarges and one other person. Back in England, Sydney carton comes up with a solution to Darneys situation, for he has found the really spy from 13 years earlier. He believed that information could help Darnay's trial right now in France, so he takes Braton with him to France to help with Daraney.

Quote: "There could not be fewer than five hundred people, and they were dancing like five thousand demons. They danced to the popular revolution song, keeping a ferocious time that was like a gnashing of teeth in unison."

Significance of Quote: In this quote, Dickens is describing the anticipation and excitement of the rowdy crowd. Death and crime was what they found fascinating during this time. “...dancing like five thousand demons,” symbolises how the revolution had changed the poor, sad people of France; and of course we cannot ignore the imagery this quote paints for the readers, fro when you read this all you see is a crowd full of crazed, animal like peasants.

Reflection: Everything in the story is piecing together like a puzzle, for now all the people we believed had no point in this story have shown their purpose. Also, as we go deeper into the plot, we can see that Dickens is starting to put together all the original people back in the same spot as they were 13 years ago. With Draney as the accused in a crime,and Lucy, Mr. Lorry, Manette, Defarge, as suspects; and of course now Sydney Carton is returning to France to be Darneys lawyer for the second time. The book is shaped as a circle, beginning and ending in the same place. However, we cannot forget the small mystery still in place, who ever else is involved in Delaneys resentencing.

Question: Is the third accuser Mr.Lorry?