A Tale of Two Cities
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Re: A Tale of Two Cities
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I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorites of Dickens. In fact, I like it better than Great Expectations.salberson 10 wrote:I tried freshman year of high school to read a Tale of Two Cities - most painful experience ever. The next year I adored Great Expectations and it remains to be one of my favorite books! - but since many years have past and the reviews on this forum I kinda want to try again.
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PashaRu wrote:
I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorites of Dickens. In fact, I like it better than Great Expectations.
Really!!?? Can you explain why?
and I'm definitely giving it another shot soon!!
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I find the story and characters more compelling and interesting. I love the sweeping historical backdrop of the French Revolution in ATOTC. There's great mystery and adventure. Both the protagonists and antagonists are hard to forget (although Miss Havisham is also quite memorable). Don't get me wrong, GE is a terrific story. IMO, ATOTC is even better.salberson 10 wrote:PashaRu wrote:
I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorites of Dickens. In fact, I like it better than Great Expectations.
Really!!?? Can you explain why?
and I'm definitely giving it another shot soon!!
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The scene when Lucie saw her father for the first time was a touching scene. This is not a scene that has any rising action or any kind of an action, but it shows the psychology of a man who had been in prison for a long time for doing nothing wrong.
The second scene that interested me was the scene when Lucie's father found out who Charles Darnay was, and he said nothing because he loved his daughter so much. After finding out what he had been through, we'd expect him to speak against Darnay's and Lucie's marriage but he did not. He kept all his pain inside, just to make her daughter happy.
The final scene that made me interested was the scene when Sydney Carton changed places with Charlas Darnay. Charles was not his brother, uncle, friend or anything. He sacrificed his life because he wanted Lucie, Lucie's future children and Charles to have a life together. We know that Sydney loved Lucie, he was in love with her. Right before the moment he's been sent to the Guillotine, there was only one thing that kept him happy, warm and maybe even relaxed. He saw the future above in his eyes, he saw that he was dying for a good,very good reason. And he died knowing that he would not be forgotten.
This story impressed me emotionally and I recommend it to my friends because I know that they will be impressed as I am impressed now.
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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Like a lot of other people on here, I love the character of Sydney Carton. He feels a lot more fleshed out than some of the other characters (though there are some layers to Charles Darnay that one of my friends apparently doesn't quite see), and I think I loved him even before I knew I did, for he's just that sort of character that I grow increasingly fond of.
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